Marsha P. Johnson

When Marsha P. Johnson's body was pulled from the Hudson River on July 6, 1992, just days after Sylvia Rivera's birthday, hours after the 4th of July- there were no major headlines. There was no swarm of reporters or fanfare in the streets. Marsha was considered by police as another unhoused, mentally ill, sex worker who lost her life to the streets. They declared her death a suicide and closed the case away in a drawer. Of course community didn't forget her, she was the Queen of Christopher Street. Her activism for Trans women, throw away youth, HIV/AIDs, her role in the Stonewall Riots, her work with Sylvia that created STAR and gave people homes and saved countless lives. Her performances, modeling for Warhol and the tattered couture she wore famously was legend. Is Legend. Her death brought Sylvia Rivera back to the work and her death haunted her every day there after.