The Ballad of Marsha P Johnson

Marsha P Johnson was a New York drag queen who broke a mirror at the Stonewall Bar and helped start the Stonewall riots.

[@RandolfeWicker]

Wonderful. I especially loved the idea that part of Marsha's love falls on us in each and every raindrop....a bit of an exaggeration perhaps but it's impossible to holler "BRAVO" loud enough to be heard on a KZbin video. Those who love Marsha, and her fans are legion, will should the appreciation this ballad deserves...

[@alicemoore8802]

damn that was a song that made me cry 😍 RIP Marsha and Sylvia Rivera 🎉😘🎉😘 when Marsha was on Time Sq. and you in the Combat Zone a lot of my friends in England were up on Front Line here... including the Northern Quarter of Manchester, Digbeth in Birmingham, London Road in Liverpool, Melbourne Road in Norwich but most of them in London. for a song from our frontline see Shane McGowan, Old Main Drag... about Picadilly Circus (=Times Sq/) but Old Compton Street is more directly equivalent to Christopher Street. Kings Cross train terminal was our 'Port Authority'. Brewer St was closer to Essex St in Boston, with the bookshops selling Color Climax and the boys on bikes selling diamorphine (pure medical heroin) ampoules they got breaking into pharmacies and seeing the private specialist doctors on Harley St... 1970s/80s shit, when people say the internet makes it easy to sell sex and drugs I respond that it didn't start anything- and is probably safer and certainly less corrupt than the days when people travelled for miles to certain streets of large cities to get what they were looking for, and open illicit activity involved paying off a lot of the police department if not the Syndicate too. Transgender Day of Remembrance next month... World AIDS Day and International Day to End Violence against Sex Workers in December- I saw another of your videos speaking in a Unitarian church and am glad the UUs are probably more active than any other religious/spiritual organization in supporting events in respect of these. ❤

[@queerulantin6431]

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