The first Pride was a riot!!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Marsha P. Johnson was a Transgender, Black woman with HIV and without her the rights that LGBTQAAI2S peoples have today wouldn’t have happened had she not fought against police brutality and worked tirelessly to help local members of the LGBTQ+ community. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 As well as being a leader in LGBTQ protests and rallies, she was Marsha was a prominent figure in the Drag community. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Unfortunately cis gender LG members of the community actively worked to push Marsha and other people like her out of the conversation, thinking it’d be “too hard” to get for them to be seen like “everyone else” if they were present in all their glory! 😞🏳️🌈😞 Despite this, Marsha stayed in the community, marching, organizing and caring for friends who were swallowed up in the AIDS epidemic of the 80’s. 🖤🏳️🌈🖤 Despite all her involvement within the community and all the joy that she brought to a space, the police initially ruled her death (her body was found floating in the Hudson) and only after massive outcry and protests, was her death changed to “unexplained drowning”!!! 😞🖤🏳️🌈 As of 2012 the case was reopened and remains open!!!!! If you know ANYTHING that might lead to answers about Marshas death, please come forward!!!!! 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻 This piece will be available for purchase once I’ve heard back from the Marsha P. Johnson Institute about the process of donating the proceeds to them. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 Follow me for updates about the piece and the auction/purchase process that will follow. 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 HAPPY PRIDE!!!!!!!!!! 🏳️🌈🏳️🌈🏳️🌈 #peacockore #rainbowwallhanging #stonewallwasariot #thefirstpridewasariot #happypride #bisexualwitch #knowyourhistory #blacktranslivesmatter #donate #marshapjohnson #marshapjohnsoninstitute #lgbtqpride #supportblackcreators #supportblacklivesmatter #supportblacklives #blacklgbtqlivesmatter #witchyvibes #healingjewelry #witchblr #instawitch #witchbiz #madeinbc #shoplocalcanada #locallymade #canadianmade #handmade #witchythings #witchywoman #spooniewitch #witch (at One Off Oddities) https://www.instagram.com/p/CB8716pplGe/?igshid=d145aus88s67
