It’s important to remember our past. Marsha P Johnson was born in 1945. She was a trans and aids-activist and a well known drag queen in New York’s Greenwich Village. During the so called Stonewall riots (riots which broke out after the police had once again raided the lgbtq bar Stonewall Inn) in 1969, she was one of the first to begin resisting the police. These riots led to the first pride parades. In 1979, she and her friend Sylvia Rivera started an organisation for supporting lgbtq-people. The organisation was called STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries). They bought a property, called it STAR-house and used it to shelter lgbt youths. During the aids-epidemic, Marsha was involved in ACT-UP: an organisation which worked for better treatment of and medication for people with aids. In 1992 Marsha was found dead in the Hudson River. Police initially ruled her death a suicide, but the case was reopened as a suspected murder after witnesses claimed that they had seen her being harassed near where her body was found. There were also claims made by the people who found her and saw her body being pulled out of the river that there was a large wound on her head. Her case has now been cold for 25 years. But we still remember Marsha P Johnson.
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