Transgender civil rights icon Marsha P. Johnson honored with public monument in New Jersey hometown
Johnson is credited with starting the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
ABC News
By Karma Allen
August 27, 2020
New Jersey officials approved a piece of land to build a monument dedicated to transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson in her hometown of Elizabeth, New Jersey. The monument would be the first in the country to honor a transgender person, according to Union County officials.
City and county officials met with members of the Johnson family on Thursday afternoon to formally announce that the space had been approved, Union County officials told ABC News.
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The Johnson family is scheduled to host events in partnership with Union County Freeholders, the City of Elizabeth, Garden State Equality and the Office of LGBTQ Affairs "during LGBTQ History Month (October, 2020) to engage with the community and the public to participate in the planning and creating of the historic project," the statement said.
Johnson, an early and outspoken advocate for transgender women of color, is widely credited with helping start the Stonewall uprising in 1969.
Meanwhile on the other side of the river…
The announcement came just days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Johnson, making it the country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state.
Cuomo made the announcement last Monday, on what would have been the transgender civil rights icon's 75th birthday.
This is a good thing.
I don’t know of any other trans person to have a park or a monument named after them. In this day of age it is good for us to a role model that future generations of trans people can look up to. Additionally it is good that they didn’t succumbed to Gay Inc. and whitewashed.
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