| LC control no. | no2016144501 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Johnson, Marsha P., 1945-1992 |
| Variant(s) | Johnson, Marsha P., 1944-1992 Johnson, Marsha (Drag performer) Johnson, Marsha (Entertainer) Michaels, Malcolm, Jr., 1945-1992 |
| See also | Member of: Hot Peaches |
| Other standard no. | 0000 0004 9778 1949 135144648609421282354 Q6773400 |
| Associated country | United States |
| Associated place | Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.) |
| Birth date | 1945-08-24 |
| Death date | 1992-07-06 |
| Place of birth | Elizabeth (N.J.) |
| Place of death | New York (N.Y.) |
| Field of activity | Gay rights Gay liberation movement Drag performance AIDS activists Gender equality |
| Affiliation | Gay Liberation Front (New York, N.Y.) Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (New York, N.Y.) |
| Profession or occupation | Political activist Social activist HIV/AIDS activist Street artist |
| Found in | Rivera, Sylvia. "S.T.A.R." Acción Travesti Callejera Revolucionaria, 2015: title page (Marsha P. Johnson) front cover flap (1944-1992, African American, transexual revolutionary) Wikipedia WWW page 27 October 2016 (Marsha P. Johnson; born 24 August, 1945 in Elizabeth, New Jersey, died 6 July, 1992 in New York City; born Malcolm Michaels, Jr.; one of the city's best known drag queens and street queens; identified as one of the first to fight back in the clashes with the police amid the Stonewall riots; in the early 1970s she and close friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), together they were a visible presense at gay liberation marches and other radical political actions; continued her street activism during the 1980s as an organizer and marshall with ACT UP; with Rivera, was "mother" of STAR House, gathering food and clothing to help support young drag queens, trans women and other street kids living on the Christopher Street docks or in their house on the Lower East Side; Johnson's body was found floating in the Hudson River off the West Village Piers shortly after the 1992 Pride March. Police ruled it suicide, but her friends said that she was not suicidal) <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsha_P._Johnson> New York times online, 13 Feb. 2023: in an obituary in the Overlooked series published 8 Mar. 2018 (Marsha P. Johnson; born Malcolm Michaels, Jr. on Aug. 24, 1945 in Elizabeth, N.J., died under murky circumstances in summer 1992, aged 46; an activist, a prostitute, a drag performer and, for nearly three decades, a fixture of street life in Greenwich Village. She was a central figure in a gay liberation movement energized by the 1969 police raid on the Stonewall Inn and a model for Andy Warhol. She battled severe mental illness, was usually destitute and, for much of her life, effectively homeless; in 1970, Johnson founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, or STAR, with her friend and fellow activist Sylvia Rivera. STAR grew out of the Gay Liberation Front; Johnson was also part of a drag performance group, Hot Peaches, which began performing in 1972; Johnson told anyone who asked that her middle initial stood for "Pay it no mind") |
| Associated language | eng |
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