Google has unveiled a new logo illustration for Marsha P. Johnson, the pioneering LGBTQ rights activist.rights activist and self-identified drag queen who was a pivotal figure in the original Gay Liberation Front and the Stonewall Riots.
Born Malcolm Michaels, Jr., on August 24th, 1945, in Elizabeth, New Jersey, Johnson moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village upon graduating from high school, where she adopted her drag queen persona and legally changed her name to Marsha P. Johnson. A beloved figure in the Sixties New York Village scene, Johnson modeled for Andy Warhol and performed onstage with the drag troupe Hot Peaches, but she was best known as a prominent early figure in the gay rights movement.
In addition to joining the Gay Liberation Front, she co-founded the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries with her friend Sylvia Rivera; it was the first such organization in the U.S. to be led by a trans woman of color, and Johnson and Rivera went on to open STAR House, the first homeless shelter for LGBTQ youth, in 1972.
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