Johnson described herself as a gay person, a transvestite, and a drag queen and used she/her pronouns the term “transgender” only became commonly used after her death. Johnson the “P” stood for “Pay It No Mind,” a phrase that became her motto. Once in New York, Johnson returned to dressing in clothing made for women and adopted the full name Marsha P. Edison High School, Johnson moved to New York City with one bag of clothes and $15. Immediately after graduating from Thomas A. Even though these clothes reflected her sense of self, she felt pressured to stop due to other children’s bullying and experiencing a sexual assault at the hands of a 13-year-old-boy. Johnson enjoyed wearing clothes made for women and wore dresses starting at age five. Johnson grew up in a religious family and began attending Mount Teman African Methodist Episcopal Church as a child she remained a practicing Christian for the rest of her life. Johnson’s father worked on the General Motors Assembly Line in Linden, NJ and her mother was a housekeeper. She was the fifth of seven children born to Malcolm Michaels Sr. Assigned male at birth, Johnson grew up in an African American, working-class family.

Johnson was born on August 24, 1945, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. and AIDS, and gay and transgender rights. Always sporting a smile, Johnson was an important advocate for homeless LGBTQ+ youth, those effected by H.I.V. Johnson was one of the most prominent figures of the gay rights movement of the 1960s and 1970s in New York City. OL1815460W Page-progression lr Page_number_confidence 96.06 Pages 686 Pdf_module_version 0.0.20 Ppi 500 Related-external-id urn:isbn:0330333070 Urn:lcp:alexhaleysqueens00hale:epub:afc1be1a-666a-41d4-94cf-5c5bfbe5ab3c Extramarc OhioLINK Library Catalog Foldoutcount 0 Identifier alexhaleysqueens00hale Identifier-ark ark:/13960/t6446pr9t Isbn 0688063314ĩ780688063313 Lccn 92047089 Ocr ABBYY FineReader 8.0 Ocr_converted abbyy-to-hocr 1.1.7 Ocr_module_version 0.0.13 Openlibrary_edition Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:55:41 Bookplateleaf 0003 Boxid IA112810 Boxid_2 CH102301 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York Containerid_2 X0001 DonorĪlibris Edition 1st ed.

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