lgbt-history-archive:“JUSTICE FOR MARSHA,” Heritage of Pride Parade participants protest the initial
lgbt-history-archive:“JUSTICE FOR MARSHA,” Heritage of Pride Parade participants protest the initial ruling of Marsha P. Johnson’s 1992 death as a suicide, New York City, c. 1993. Photo © Randy Wicker. In 2002, after a vigorous campaign by friends of the legendary Ms. Johnson, the New York Police Department ruled there was, in fact, not enough information to have called her death a suicide, classifying it instead as “undetermined.” In December 2012, two decades after her death, the NYPD officially reopened Marsha’s case. Marsha P. Johnson was one of the founders of the modern gay liberation movement and it took two decades of activism for police to acknowledge that they should investigate more closely the cause of her death. Today, on Transgender Day of Remembrance, we say the names of those we’ve lost, and we mourn and honor the countless whose names we may never know. #lgbthistory #HavePrideInHistory #RememberTheT #MarshaPJohnson (at New York, New York) -- source link
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