Describing herself as a 'road queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York Metropolis’s homosexual ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pleasure for the reason that days of Stonewall, who together with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, based Road Transvestites Motion Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group primarily based within the coronary heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her dying in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, however mates by no means accepted that model of occasions. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz solid as detective and viewers surrogate, The Demise and Lifetime of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, whereas looking for to lastly remedy the thriller of her unexplained dying.
