Transgender activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera are set to be honored close to the location of the Stonewall uprising of which they were a part of in 1969
Over the past year, New York has seen big changes to its monuments – a controversial statue of J Marion Sims was torn down from Central Park after protests, while a new “anti-monument” paying tribute to Shirley Chisholm, the first black congresswoman, is slated to go up next summer in Brooklyn.
This week, it was announced that transgender activists Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be remembered in a monument expected in 2021. Johnson and Rivera were key figures in New York’s gay liberation movement of the 1960s and 1970s, and together they protested at the Stonewall uprising in 1969, which marks its 50th anniversary in June.
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