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  1. Certificate of Death for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: Jul. 9, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Marsha P. Johnson's death certificate with the original, highly contested cause of death.
  2. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Don Rojas

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 16, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ discrimination, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence from Randy Wicker to the executive editor of New York Amsterdam News, Don Rojas, concerning Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  3. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Father Ken Smith, July 1992

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 21, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bob Kohler, Ken Smith, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate Randy Wicker to Father Ken Smith at St. Veronica's Church in New York City. Randy is writing to him to ask if he'd be intereste...
  4. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Gay Officers Action League Members

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Nov. 10, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Police, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Gay Officers Action League (GOAL), Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence from Randy Wicker to the members of the Gay Officers Action League concerning the police investigation into Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  5. Death of a Drag Queen

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Newman, Andy, Hoboken Reporter
    Date: Jul. 19, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, HIV/AIDS, LGBTQ+ sex workers, Mental health, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is an article in the Hoboken Reporter that describes Marsha P. Johnson's death and provides an overview of her life. A version of page two of the clipping annotated by Randy Wicker is als...
  6. Death of a Drag Queen Follow-up

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Newman, Andy
    Date: Oct. 20, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Description: A short follow-up article that conveys new information about the circumstances surrounding Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  7. Death of a Legend

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Harrold, Max
    Date: Aug. 9, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Lesbians, QTPOC, Roommates, Stonewall riots, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bob Leach, George Flimlin, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker
    Description: "An article covering a memorial for Marsha P. Johnson held on July 26, 1992 at Duane Methodist Church."
  8. Demand Justice For Marsha

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator:
    Date: 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, Police, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a flyer titled "Demand Justice for Marsha" that demands that the New York police arrest the four men who were seen harassing Marsha P. Johnson on July 4, 1992. The flyer encourages peo...
  9. Eviction Day Along the Curb of a Dead Road

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Stout, David
    Date: Apr. 3, 1996
    Topics: Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Trans women
    Subject: Construction, Fran Reiter, Pier 54, Sylvia Rivera, Unhoused People
    Description: New York Times article discussing the impact of highway construction on an unhoused community, including Sylvia Rivera.
  10. Fax with a Handwritten Note to Sylvia Rivera

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Sorace, Lorraine
    Date: Apr. 17, 1996
    Topics: Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Elizabeth Josephson, Stephen Van Cline, Sylvia Rivera
    Description: A cover letter for a fax regarding a proposal for Portraits on Drag Queens with a handwritten note to Sylvia Rivera from Stephen van Cline.
  11. FROM STONEWALL TO THE PUERTO RICAN PRIDE PARADE: THE EPIC ROLE OF TRANSVESTITES

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Northeastern University Archives and Special Collections
    Creator: Negron, Frances
    Date: Jun. 1994
    Topics: Gay men, Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbians, LGBTQ+ people of color, Stonewall riots, Transphobia, Transvestites
    Subject: Communidad Orgullo Gay, Gay Community News, Gay Liberation Front, Latino Gay and Lesbian Coalition, Maida Tilchen, National Gay Task Force (NGTF), Pa'Fuera, Puerto Rican Pride Parade, Puerto Rico, Stonewall 25, Stonewall Rebellion, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera
    Description: An overview of Puerto Rican involvement in the LGBT+ movement, especially Sylvia Rivera's involvement in the Stonewall Rebellion. Originally published on page 22 of volume 20, issues 1 and 2 of Gay...
  12. Here's to Marsha

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Ballard, Roland
    Date: Nov. 25, 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Gay pride, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Gay Liberation Front
    Description: A letter from Roland Ballard to Randy Wicker containing a photograph of Marsha P. Johnson at the New York City 1987 Pride Parade.
  13. 'I Never Thought I Was Going to Be Part of Gay History'

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: Digital Transgender Archive
    Creator: Isay, David
    Date: Jun. 27, 1999
    Topics: Latino/a/x LGBTQ+ people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Lesbian relationships, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Stonewall riots, Substance abuse, Trans women
    Subject: Gay History, Julia Murray, Mental Health, Sylvia Rivera, Transgender House, Transie House
    Description: New York Times article interviewing Sylvia Rivera about her life 30 years after Stonewall.
  14. Interview with Bennie Toney and Footage of a Street Memorial for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Drag queens, Eyewitness accounts, LGBTQ+ memorials, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bennie Toney, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  15. Just a Little Note

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Capilano, Bob
    Date: Jul. 3, 1990
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A personal letter to Marsha P. Johnson from a friend reflecting on a night out.