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Meet Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important black–and queer–civil rights activists
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Welcome to Screen Gems, our weekend dive into queer and queer-adjacent titles of the past that deserve a watch or a rewatch.We’ve never done this here at Screen Gems, but the time has come.
We’re recommending a movie more than once.In this case, the heroine at the center of the story more than deserves it. Marsha P.
Johnson’s name doesn’t get mentioned alongside that of Rosa Parks, Barbara Gittings or Angela Davis as an important activist for the African-American community, but it should.
As a transgender woman, Johnson spent her life working as a drag performer, actress and activist in New York. Though some anecdotes even hold that Johnson was the first one to throw a brick at Stonewall, Johnson denied starting them.
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