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New York park named after LGBTQ+ rights pioneer Marsha P. Johnson

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New York governor Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Monday, on what would have been the transgender activist’s 75th birthday. “Too often, the marginalised voices that have pushed progress forward in New York and across the country go unrecognised, making up just a fraction of our public memorials and monuments,” Cuomo wrote in a statement. “Marsha P.

Johnson was one of the early leaders of the LGBTQ movement, and is only now getting the acknowledgement she deserves. Dedicating this state park for her, and installing public art telling her story, will ensure her memory and her work fighting for equality lives on.” He later tweeted that New York is “indebted” to Marsha for her “brave advocacy and relentless fight for LGBTQ equality”.

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