The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

When

August 18, 2017    
7:00 pm - 9:00 pm

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Bookings closed

Where

HRC Equality Center
1640 Rhode Island Ave NW, Washington, DC, 20005

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Thank you to our presenting Platinum Sponsors

 

Co-sponsored by DC Anti Violence Project

The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

from Award Winning and Critically Acclaimed Director

David France

Click here for the film’s trailer 

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson? When the beloved, self-described “street queen” of NY’s Christopher Street was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD called her death a suicide. Protests erupted but the police remained impassive and refused to investigate. Now, twenty-five years on, Academy Award® nominated director and journalist David France (How to Survive a Plague) examines Marsha’s death—and her extraordinary life—in his new film.

Marsha arrived in the Village in the 1960s where she teamed up with Sylvia Rivera when both claimed their identities as “Drag Queens,” to use the vernacular of the times. Together, the radical duo fought arrests, condemned police brutality, organized street kids, battled the intolerant majority within the gay community, and helped spearhead the Stonewall Riots.

In 1970 they formed the world’s first trans-rights organization, STAR (Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries). Despite their many challenges over the years—bias, homelessness, illness—Marsha and Sylvia ignited a powerful and lasting civil rights movement for gender nonconforming people.

Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, a dynamic activist named Victoria Cruz has taken it upon herself to reexamine what happened at the end of Marsha’s Life. THE DEATH AND LIFE OF MARSHA P. JOHNSON follows as this champion pursues leads, mobilizes officials, and works to get to the bottom of Marsha’s death.

This is screening is hosted by Rayceen Pendarvis of The Ask Rayceen Show

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