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Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992) was an American gay liberation [6] [7] activist and self-identified drag queen. [ 8 ] [ 9 ] Known as an outspoken advocate for gay rights , Johnson was one of the prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.
The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a 2017 American documentary film directed by David France. It chronicles Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera , prominent figures in gay liberation and transgender rights movement in New York City from the 1960s to the 1990s and co-founders of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries .
Victoria Cruz is an American LGBT rights activist and retired domestic violence counselor. A contemporary of activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, she is featured in the 2017 documentary The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson. [1]
The Marsha P. Johnson Institute continues the work of the NJ native transgender activist by supporting Black transgender people.
Nov. 20 marks the 23rd Transgender Day of Remembrance — a day honoring transgender and gender non-conforming lives that were murdered in acts of violence. 33 transgender, gender nonconforming ...
The mother of a Black transgender woman who was fatally shot in Dallas in 2019 on Thursday tearfully insisted to the man who pleaded guilty in the slaying that she will continue the advocacy work ...
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) was a gay, gender non-conforming, and transvestite street activist organization founded in 1970 by Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson, [1] subculturally-famous New York City drag queens of color.
Dana Rivers was found guilty of murdering three people in Oakland. Rivers gained national attention when she had a sex-change operation to become a woman nearly 20 years ago.