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- Beginning in 1987, Johnson was an AIDS activist with ACT UP. Johnson's body was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992. While initially ruled a suicide by the New York City Police Department (NYPD), controversy and protest followed the case, resulting in it eventually being re-opened as a possible homicide.
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In Hoboken, she speaks to Randy Wicker, who took in Marsha as a roommate in the 1980s. One queen, Miss Kitty, is interviewed in a prison facility. Sylvia Rivera , Johnson’s good friend and another Stonewall veteran, died in the 1990s, but France’s use of archival footage of her is startling.
Jun 5, 2020 · At STAR House, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera Created a Home for Trans People. At STAR House, Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson created a sanctuary for houseless trans girls in the 1970s ...
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Nov 17, 2023 · She disappeared on July 4, 1992, and her body was pulled from the river two days later. According to eyewitness accounts collected by Johnson’s friend, roommate and gay activist Randolfe Wicker at...
Marsha P. Johnson was a transwoman who became an important face to the gay, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender community in New York City. She was recognized by being herself and fearing no judgment of the harassment and ridicule of dressing and living as a woman, while having the masculine features of a man.
Jun 27, 2019 · Marsha P. Johnson stood at the center of New York City’s gay liberation movement for nearly 25 years. But LGBTQ rights weren’t her only cause. She was on the front lines of protests against...
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Jun 17, 2019 · Many of the anti-sodomy laws were struck down in the 1980s, making homosexuality effectively legal, although it was decades before gay marriage became a federally-recognised right in 2015.
Jul 11, 2023 · As Monica Forrester (in Ware, 2017) explains, living as a Black trans sex worker in the 1980s, she was focused on survival and did not think to take pictures and document her life. Living in a deeply violent world where they did not think they would live past thirty, archiving simply did not come to mind for her and those in community with her.
