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🌸1945 – 1992
⭐ Featured StoryActivistTrans Rights

Marsha P. Johnson

Pay It No Mind

New York City · 1945 – 1992

Before there was a Pride parade, before there was a movement with a name, there was Marsha P. Johnson — a Black transgender woman from Elizabeth, New Jersey, who arrived in New York City with $15 and a bag of clothes and became one of the most important figures in LGBTQ history. She didn't set out to start a revolution. She just refused to disappear.

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"I may be crazy, but that don't make me wrong."

— Marsha P. Johnson

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Greenwich Village, New York City

Home & Community1969

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Full Biography

Timeline & Key Milestones

1945

Born Malcolm Michaels Jr. in Elizabeth, New Jersey

1963

Arrived in New York City with $15 and a bag of clothes

1969

Present at the Stonewall Uprising — a pivotal moment in LGBTQ history

1970

Co-founded STAR (Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries) with Sylvia Rivera

1970s

Performed with drag troupe Hot Peaches; modeled for Andy Warhol

1980s

Became an ACT UP activist during the AIDS crisis

1992

Died on July 6; body found in the Hudson River

2012

NYPD reopened investigation into her death

2019

Posthumously honored with a NYC statue and street renaming

2020

Featured in the Netflix documentary 'The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson'

Achievements & Legacy

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Stonewall Uprising

Among the first to resist police at the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969

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STAR House Founder

Co-founded one of the first shelters for homeless transgender youth in the U.S.

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ACT UP Activist

Fought for AIDS awareness and government response throughout the 1980s

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Cultural Icon

Performed with Hot Peaches; modeled for Andy Warhol; beloved Village figure

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NYC Statue

Posthumously honored with a statue in Greenwich Village alongside Sylvia Rivera

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Enduring Legacy

Subject of documentaries, murals, and academic study worldwide

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