Marsha P. Johnson was a black transwoman who was involved with the gay liberation movement. She was born on August 24th 1945 and died on July 6th 1992 at the age of 46. She was known in the gay community for being a drag queen since the term ‘transgender’ was not used at that time. Together with Sylvia Rivera and other drag queens she is considered to be one of the people who caused acceleration to the gay liberation movement. In the 1960’s the police was raiding gay bars on the regular because it was illegal to serve drinks to homosexuals or for them to dance together. On June 28th 1969 the Stonewall Inn was targeted by the police and everyone that did not have an ID on them or was in drag was arrested. During these arrests a crowd was