Marsha P. Johnson, born on this day in 1945, was a civil rights activist, founding member of the Gay Liberation Front and the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), and participant in the Stonewall Uprising of 1969.
Johnson was one of the first drag queens to go to the Stonewall Inn after they began allowing women and drag queens inside; it was previously a bar for only gay men.
On the early morning hours of June 28th, 1969, the Stonewall uprising occurred. While the first two nights of rioting were the most intense, the clashes with police would result in a series of spontaneous demonstrations and marches through the gay neighborhoods of Greenwich Village for roughly a week afterwards.
According to the New-York Historical Society, “While there are many conflicting stories about the uprising’s start, it is clear that Marsha was on the front lines. In one account, she started the uprising by throwing a shot glass at a mirror. In another, she climbed a lamppost and dropped a heavy purse onto a police car, shattering the windshield.” After Stonewall, Johnson became more involved in activism, helping found the Gay Liberation Front.
To help provide a home for vulnerable trans youth, Marsha and her friend Sylvia Rivera together formed the Street Transvestite Activist Revolutionaries (STAR). The first STAR House was in the back of a seemingly abandoned truck in Greenwich Village, housing nearly 24 people.
One morning, they returned to the truck just as its driver was pulling away with STAR residents sleeping inside, who were then forced to jump from a moving vehicle. Marsha and Sylvia then rented and fixed up a dilapidated building to house STAR residents for eight months before being evicted.
Shortly after a pride parade in 1992, Johnson’s body was discovered floating in the Hudson River. Police ruled the death a suicide, but Johnson’s friends and other members of the local community insisted Johnson was not suicidal and noted that the back of Johnson’s head had a massive wound.
Johnson was cremated and, following a funeral at a local church, friends released her ashes over the river.
The 2012 documentary “Pay It No Mind – The Life and Times of Marsha P. Johnson” heavily features segments from a 1992 interview with Johnson, filmed shortly before her death.
“Darling, I want my gay rights now”
- Marsha P. Johnson
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I thought I would love legends like I did let’s go, but the core gameplay loop basically bored me to death. I know I haven’t really “completed” the game since I’ve refused to touch it after the credits rolled past the origin dialga fight, but I genuinely had near-zero fun with the game.
I am still glad that it exists though, I’d rather have something “new”. And I know lots of people love it, not gonna shit on people’s tastes (my own tastes are unconventional). Hopefully the next “bizzaro” remake is completely different from arceus and let’s go as well.
nah, i could totally see people not enjoying it whatsoever for multiple reasons - “where’s the battles lol” probably being the first one that comes to mind
Considering you hate the game i’m gonna drop the spoiler, but for Pokemon’s “”“”“story”“”“” (or complete lack thereof) you missed one of my favourite bits in the “postgame”:
spoiler
You would have met Cogita, and from the story probably assumed that she’s the Cynthia-analog for the game. Wrong.
After you do a bunch of postgame shit and collect all of the Arceus plates bar-one, you go back up Mount Coronet and find that fucking Volo is actually evil Cynthia and is trying to summon Giratina. A wild piano version of Cynthia’s theme plays and Volo proceeds to have all of Cynthia’s team exactly as you remember it.
If you win, then Volo summons Giratina
If you win, then Giratina changes fucking forms and gets stronger
edit for a second spoiler because I forgot:
second spoiler
Volo reveals they summoned Giratina to rip open the space-time hole in the first place, causing the whole story to occur
also Volo is like the only competent AI battler in the whole game
seriously, just watch this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LjY7JsGMvpo
I thought that both of them were the cynthia ancestors of the bad old days.
Anyway, I’ll be waiting for the next unconventional remake. Hopefully it’d actually be as good as let’s go.