Marsha P. Johnson

About Marsha

Marsha "Pay It No Mind" Johnson was a Black trans woman known for her prominance in the 1969 Stonewall uprising. She was an activist, self-identified drag queen, performer, and survivor.

A Timeline of Miss Marsha's Life

• 1945-Born August 24th in Elizatbeth, NJ
• 1963-Graduated high school and moved to Greewich Village in New York City with nothing but $15 and a bag of clothes
• 1964-Found a like-minded community in the bawdy nightlife of Christopher Street and began establishing her Drag Queen persona
• 1969-June 28th, Johnson became one of the faces of the Queer Revolution. New York's LGBT community was being targeted by the NYPD. After a raid by police at the Stonewall Inn, Johnson and close friend Silvia Rivera were caught up in the Stonewall Uprising, largely credited as a catalyst for Gay Rights Movement in the late 1960s
• 1970-First gay pride marches occur across the country. Johnson and Rivera found Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), which clothed, fed, housed, and advocated for transgender youth
• 1972-as the face of the resistance, Johnson performed around the world with the popular drag theater company, Hot Peaches
• 1992-Suffering from mental illness, weathering breakdowns, arrests, and stints at psychiatric hospitals even as she strove to promote gay civil rights, Johnson was found drowned in the Hudson River. Only 46 at the time of her death.
• 2012-Johnson's death was initially declared a suicide by police, but have agreed to reopen the case for investigation
• 2015-The Marsha P. Johnson Institute was founded in honor of Mother Marsha to help the Black trans community.
• 2024-$Marsh launching on pump.fun,Continue to shine on Solana.

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