New York Gov. Cuomo has dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Marsha P. Johnson, making it the country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state.
Catch up on the developing stories making headlines.Gov. Andrew Cuomo has dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Marsha P. Johnson, making it country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state.
The state plans to improve the park's facilities and install public art celebrating Johnson's life and her role in the advancement of LGBTQ rights, according to a statement, which called the move the largest investment in the park's history.Marsha P. Johnson smiles in this scene from the documentary film, The Life & Death Of Marsha P. Johnson.
New York City police officers raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in Manhattan's Greenwich Village neighborhood, on June 28, 1969, to enforce a discriminatory law that made it illegal to serve alcohol to gay people. Johnson and others fought back, helping spawn the modern LGBTQ civil rights movement.
"Too often, the marginalized voices that have pushed progress forward in New York and across the country go unrecognized, making up just a fraction of our public memorials and monuments," Cuomo said 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.
"With the COVID-19 pandemic and Black Lives Matter movement, now more than ever we must continue the fight for LGBTQ equality and racial justice in our society," Hochul said."We have come a long way with the passage of GENDA [the Gender Expression Non-Discrimination Act] and legalizing gestational surrogacy, but we still have more work to do to combat division and hate and achieve true equality for all."A 1970 photo of Marsha P.
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