daisy loves charlie

she was a black trans female drag queen who played a big part in starting the stonewall riots at the stonewall inn on june 28 - 1 july 1969

she was a street queen, advocate for trans people (especially poor trans youth), an advocate for AIDS awareness, and a sex worker

at this time white cis gay men were excluding trans people from any kind of queer events so Marsha and Sylvia Rivera founded S.T.A.R.

S.T.A.R stood for Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (later Sylvia changed Transvestite to Transgender)

S.T.A.R. is particularly notable because it was founded by two trans women of color

it was known for taking in homeless lgbt youth, young queens and trans women of color.

Marsha and Sylvia maintained jobs as sex workers and hustlers to keep food in the shelter.

in 1992, 10 days before her body was found, Marsha did an interview where she revealed she had been living with HIV+ since 1990

and that she was working with AIDS organizations in new york, most famously act up

25 years ago today, when her body was found floating in the Hudson River. police immediately wrote it off as a suicide

1) she was a black trans woman 2) she had a history of mental illness but her closest friends and many others today believe she was murdered

it took 20 years of convincing for NYPD to re-open the case as a possible homicide

when we look at the disproportionate rates of violence against black trans women today we have to face the facts that this is nothing new

as it goes back to at least 1992, but probably much longer

Marsha P. Johnson was a revolutionary figure in the fight for queer and trans liberation, which encompasses class struggle and anti-racism..

but also starting to end the stigma against mental health

MARSHA P JOHNSON FOUGHT FOR ALL OF THIS

her death cast a massive shadow over the trans community as well as the black community and of course people in both communities