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3 days ago · The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a Netflix documentary directed by David France. It delves into the mysterious 1992 death of Marsha P. Johnson, a black gay rights activist and Stonewall veteran. Activist Victoria Cruz is at the heart of the investigation, exploring Johnson's life and unsolved case.
2 days ago · Marsha P. Johnson was a pioneer in the fight for transgender rights . A key figure in the 1969 Stonewall riots that were a major catalyst for the momentum of LGBTIQ+ rights around the world, Johnson was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), along with close friend Sylvia Rivera, another giant of LGBTIQ+ activism in the USA.
1 day ago · 'The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson' Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are two of the most important figures in the history of the gay rights movement in the United States, even if they ...
22 hours ago · A landmark event for the LGBT community, and the Black LGBT community in particular, was the Stonewall uprising in 1969, in New York City's Greenwich Village, where Black activists including Stormé DeLarverie (who instigated the uprising) and Marsha P. Johnson (who was in the vanguard of the later pushback against the police) played key roles ...
2 days ago · As recorded in last February's article “ Health is a Personal Responsibility,” my mother-in-law has exceeded the doctor’s estimation of life span measured in weeks to nearly 16 months. She passed away on 1st July 2024.
3 days ago · Harvey Bernard Milk (May 22, 1930 – November 27, 1978) was an American politician and the first openly gay man to be elected to public office in California, as a member of the San Francisco Board of Supervisors.
2 days ago · Chapter 5 examines living martyrdom in the Sermones ad populum as grounded in a Christian’s causa rather than her death, and chapter 6 depicts the rhetorical techniques that Augustine uses to promote the life of a living martyr, techniques that result in a more popular or accessible presentation than is found in the other two figures.
