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Jan 28, 2022 · Long uncredited, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were the vanguard of the modern transgender movement, fighting for the right to gender self-identify when social and criminal...
Marsha P. Johnson, a self-identified drag queen and a prominent gay liberation activist, is one of the most well-known participants in the Stonewall uprising.
Revolutionaries Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson stand at the front lines of a protest. Both figures were undeniably themselves in a time when homosexuality was illegal and fellow transgender and gender non-conforming peoples were facing arrests.
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, subculturally-famous New York City drag queens of color.
Rivera's older friend Marsha P. Johnson had been Rivera's protector and friend since Rivera arrived in the city, and the two were close friends from 1961 through 1973. In 1970, Rivera and Johnson co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).
May 31, 2019 · Marsha P. Johnson’s friend and fellow activist, Sylvia Rivera, is also sometimes credited with starting Stonewall. “Sylvia Rivera is known for throwing the first bottle at the Stonewall Riots.”
Jun 13, 2020 · Erected in honour of Rivera and her dear friend and fellow activist, Marsha P. Johnson, it will be the city’s first transgender monument – despite its history as the birthplace of the Pride movement.
In 1963, Rivera met Marsha P. Johnson and it changed her life. Johnson, an African American self-identified drag queen and activist, was also battling exclusion in a movement for gay rights that did not embrace her gender expression.
Jun 12, 2019 · Activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be honored with the world's first permanent monument celebrating transgender women.
May 29, 2019 · Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, pioneering transgender activists who were at the vanguard of the gay rights movement, will be immortalized in a monument that may be placed down the...
