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Miles de personas llenaron las calles de Nueva York para celebrar la Marcha del Orgullo, en una jornada marcada por la defensa de los derechos de la comunidad LGTBIQ+ y las críticas a las políticas de la Administración de Donald Trump. Lee la nota completa aquí: https://eyboricua.com/?p=137809
Watertown High School band students won’t be allowed to perform an instrumental piece of music tied to LGBTQ+ history at their spring concer
The composer who created "A Mother of a Revolution" is speaking out ahead of Tuesday’s Watertown school board vote on whether students at Wa
The Watertown School Board is debating whether a song with LGBTQ ties should be allowed to be performed at a high school concert.
He paid with his life for his political position, defending the last da Barbara Bonanno BNNRRB Tramite Flickr: Marsha P. Johnson was born Malcolm Michaels Jr. on August 24, 1945, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, into a working-class African American family. Raised in a religious household, Marsha experienced early hostility toward gender nonconformity and learned quickly that expressing femininity could provoke violence and punishment. After finishing high school, Marsha left New Jersey for New York City with little money, few belongings, and a determination to live openly. In New York, Marsha survived through street economies, sex work, performance, and mutual aid. She became part of the drag and street queen community in Greenwich Village, where poor Black and Brown queer people formed underground networks of survival in a city that criminalized their existence. Police harassment, arbitrary arrests, beatings, and extortion were constant realities. In June 1969, Marsha was present at the Stonewall Inn during the police raid that triggered several nights of rebellion. Multiple witnesses place her among those who physically resisted the police during the first moments of confrontation. Stonewall was not symbolic for Marsha; it was a direct response to years of abuse and the beginning of sustained struggle. After Stonewall, Marsha continued organizing on the streets rather than entering institutional politics. Together with Sylvia Rivera, she co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), one of the first organizations created by and for transgender and gender-nonconforming people. STAR functioned as a survival structure: Marsha and Rivera raised money through sex work, performance, and panhandling to rent and later occupy buildings that became homes for homeless transgender youth. STAR House provided beds, food, clothing, and protection for young people expelled from their families and rejected by shelters. Marsha openly criticized the mainstream gay rights movement for prioritizing the concerns of white, middle-class gay men while excluding drag queens, transgender people, sex workers, and the poor. She confronted organizers who attempted to erase trans people from marches and public platforms. In the 1980s, Marsha became active with ACT UP, participating in demonstrations demanding medical access, research funding, and humane treatment for people with AIDS. She also performed with the radical drag-theater collective Hot Peaches, using art as a tool of political expression and community building. Marsha lived with significant mental health challenges and endured extreme poverty, yet remained deeply committed to caring for others. Friends described her as generous to the point of self-sacrifice, giving away food, money, and clothing even when she had little herself. On July 6, 1992, Marsha’s body was found in the Hudson River near the Christopher Street piers. Earlier that night, witnesses reported seeing her being harassed and chased. Despite these accounts and visible injuries, police quickly ruled her death a suicide. Years later, under pressure from activists and new witness statements, the case was reopened as a possible homicide, though no one has been held accountable. Marsha P. Johnson represents a form of political struggle rooted in the daily defense of human life rather than respectability or institutions. She fought for people considered disposable and refused to accept a movement that did not include them. Her legacy lives in every fight for the dignity, safety, and self-determination of transgender and marginalized people. I publish these portraits to remember real history, to honor those who gave their lives for dignity, freedom, and justice, to oppose propaganda and erasure, to speak to younger generations, and to invite conscience, awareness, and resistance.
Happy Pride!
No Pride for some of us, without Pride for all of us.
❤️🧡💛💚💙🩷💜💓🤍🩵🩶
From https://doodles.google/doodle/celebrating-marsha-p-johnson/ :
This (old) Google Doodle, “illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Rob Gilliam, celebrates LGBTQ+ rights activist, performer, and self-identified drag queen Marsha P. Johnson, who is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. On this day in 2019, Marsha was posthumously honored as a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March.
Marsha P. Johnson was born on August 24th, 1945, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After graduating high school in 1963, she moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village, a burgeoning cultural hub for LGBTQ+ people. Here, she legally changed her name to Marsha P. Johnson. Her middle initial—“P.”—allegedly stood for her response to those who questioned her gender: “Pay It No Mind.”
A beloved and charismatic fixture in the LGBTQ+ community, Johnson is credited as one of the key leaders of the 1969 Stonewall uprising— widely regarded as a critical turning point for the international LGBTQ+ rights movement. The following year, she founded the Street Transvestite (now Transgender) Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with fellow transgender activist Sylvia Rivera. STAR was the first organization in the U.S. to be led by a trans woman of color and was the first to open North America’s first shelter for LGBTQ+ youth.
In 2019, New York City announced plans to erect statues of Johnson and Rivera in Greenwich Village, which will be one of the world’s first monuments in honor of transgender people.
Thank you, Marsha P. Johnson, for inspiring people everywhere to stand up for the freedom to be themselves.”
After a statue of the trans activist promised by the city was delayed by the pandemic, activists installed the bust themselves this week.
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