Queer icon Marsha P Johnson Tens of thousands of people are calling for queer Stonewall Riots icon Marsha P Johnson to be honoured with a statue in her New Jersey home town. Johnson was a transgender woman who is credited as one of three people who sparked the Stonewall Riots on 28 June 1969 after police raided the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City.
These events are said to have launched the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement. More than 50,000 people have now signed a petition demanding that the statue of Christopher Columbus in the city of Elizabeth be removed and replaced with a monument to Johnson.
The petition’s creator, Celine Da Silva says that celebrating Columbus is glorifying European colonialism. “Although it is widely
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