Marsha P. Johnson is celebrated in today's Google Doodle, marking the last day of Pride Month. As an LGBTQ+ rights activist, performer, transgender woman, and drag queen, Marsha P.
Johnson pioneered the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the U.S. and was a key figure in the Stonewall uprising of 1969.Born on August 24, 1945, in New Jersey, Marsha P.
Johnson graduated high school in 1963 and then moved to Greenwich Village in New York City. She legally changed her name to Marsha P.
Johnson, with the P. allegedly standing for "Pay It No Mind"—her response to those who questioned her gender.Johnson, her friend Sylvia Rivera and others resisted arrest when the police raided the Stonewall Inn gay bar on June 28, 1969.