New Jersey officials have approved a piece of land to build a monument dedicated to transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson in her hometown of Elizabeth. The monument would be the first in the country to honor a transgender person, officials say.
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.
The announcement came just days after New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo dedicated the East River State Park in Brooklyn to Johnson, making it the country's first state park to honor an LGBTQ person, according to the state.Family members of activist Marsha P. Johnson stand at the site of a new monument to be built in Johnson's honor in Elizabeth, N.J., in a photo released by Union County.
Cuomo made the announcement last Monday, on what would have been the transgender civil rights icon's 75th birthday. 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.An art installation outside of the Justice Center provides information on Marsha P. Johnson in Portland, Ore., on June 21, 2019.
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