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Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson New York City December 20, 1970

“Stonewall was a police riot. Queer and trans people say NO NEW JAIL!!”

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lgbt_history: “I don’t know what I am if I’m not a woman.” – Marsha P. Johnson, 1971 . Picture: “S.T.A.R. PEOPLE ARE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE,” Marsha P. Johnson (August 24, 1945 – July 6, 1992), Albany, New York, March 1971. Photo by Diana Davies, c/o @nyplpicturecollection. [TW] . Marsha P. Johnson, who was born seventy-two years ago today, was one of the founders of the queer liberation movement. She was, among other things, part of the Stonewall Riots, a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activists Alliance, and a co-founder (with Sylvia Rivera) of the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), the first organization dedicated to assisting homeless drag queens, trans women, and survival (i.e., sex) workers. . While the story of Johnson having thrown “the first” brick at Stonewall oversimplifies the events that triggered the riots (she later told @makinggayhistorypodcast, for example, that she “didn’t get downtown until about two o’clock, because when I got downtown the place was already on fire…The riots had already started”), she was on the front lines of the queer liberation movement from the outset (to be clear: police treatment of drag queens and trans women played a large part in starting the riots, and Johnson was there for much of the most intense fighting). . In the face of constant attempts to exclude trans people from the movement, Johnson remained a symbol of her community’s courage, kindness, and resolve. . Johnson, who relied on survival work for much of her life, struggled with mental health issues, and was prone to bouts of great anger; she was not, however, known to be depressive or suicidal. . On July 6, 1992, days after New York’s Pride, Johnson’s body was pulled from the Hudson River near Christopher Street; she was forty-six. . Despite friends telling police that Johnson had been facing increasing harassment, and that she had been missing for days, her death was ruled a suicide; in 2002, police ruled there was, in fact, not enough information to call the death a suicide, instead classifying it as “undetermined.” . In December 2012, the NYPD officially reopened the case. #Resist #BlackTransLivesMatter #MarshaPJohnson

From inside the squatted social centre Romantica, in Sydney, which was  recently evicted and demolished.

Flyer created and distributed by Lesbians Against Police Violence and The Stonewall Coalition in summer 1979 in the aftermath of the White Night Riots; Graphic by Emily Siegel.

Photographer - @nikxofficial