Marsha is honored as a Stonewall instigator, a drag queen, an Andy Warhol model, an actress and a revolutionary trans activist.
Its mission is to defend and protect the human rights of transgender and gender nonconforming communities. Johnson (2017) and Happy Birthday, Marsha! (2017). Johnson (2012) and The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson’s story is featured in Pay It No Mind: Marsha P. Twenty-five years later, Victoria Cruz, a crime victim advocate of the New York City Anti-Violence Project (AVP) re-opened the case. The police ruled she had committed suicide despite claims from her friends and other members of the local community that she was not suicidal. Sadly, at the age of 46, on July 6, 1992, Johnson’s body was found in the Hudson River off the West Village Piers. STAR provided services - including shelter (the first was a trailer truck) - to homeless LGBTQ people in New York City, Chicago, California and England for a few years in the early 1970s but eventually disbanded. Despite this, following the events at Stonewall, Johnson and her friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) and they became fixtures in the community, especially in their commitment to helping homeless transgender youth. View the latest known address, phone number and possibly related persons. As the broader gay and lesbian movement shifted toward leadership from white cisgender men and women, trans people of color were swept to the outskirts of the movement. There are 3 results for persons named Marsha Halma. Trans women, particularly women of color, were regular targets of hate crimes. They thought it was more likely that Marsha was a victim of an attack. Marsha’s friends and acquaintances strongly disagreed. The police officers ruled her death a suicide.
Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR)Īs an African American trans woman, Johnson has consistently been overlooked both as a participant in the Stonewall uprising and more generally, LGBTQ activism. On July 6, 1992, Marsha’s body was found floating in the Hudson River.
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