Marsha 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.
Google on Tuesday
honoured LGBTQ+ rights activist Marsha P Johnson for emerging as one of the
pioneers of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the US. Today's Google
doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Rob Gilliam, has shown
Marsha with all smiles and sporting her iconic flowery and colourful headgear.
On this day last
year, Marsha was posthumously honored as a grand marshal of the New York City
Pride March. New York City had also announced plans to erect statues of Marsha
and her fellow transgender activist Sylvia Rivera Rivera in Greenwich Village,
which will be one of the world's first monuments in honor of transgender
people.
Marsha was born
Malcolm Michaels Jr. 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."
Marsha 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) which was the first organisation in the United States to
be led by a trans woman of color and was the first to open North America's
first shelter for LGBTQ+ youth, said Google.
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