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On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 96%, based on 28 reviews, and an average rating of 7.4/10.The site's critical consensus reads, "The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson uses its belated investigation into an activist's murder as the framework for a sobering look at the ongoing battle for equal rights."
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.
Victoria Cruz is an American LGBT rights and Anti-Violence 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 ...
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.
But fighting for equality has become a mission for Kai Shappley, an 11-year-old transgender activist who says her identity is not up for debate. “I was always a girl,” the Texas-native tells ...
In 2012, she lobbied for a reexamination of the 1992 death of Marsha P. Johnson, a Black transgender rights activist. The case was first considered a suicide, then in 2002 changed to "undetermined", and in 2012 the New York Police Department re-opened the case as a possible homicide. [ 6 ]