Marsha P. Johnson

Marsha P. Johnson was a Black transgender activist and performer who came to New York from New Jersey and became one of the best known figures of Greenwich Village. She was part of the Stonewall uprising of June 1969, and the Stonewall Inn itself remembers her, with Sylvia Rivera, as a leader of the movement that followed. In 1970 the two of them founded STAR, which gave food and shelter to young transgender people.

When people asked what the P stood for, she said: pay it no mind. In her later years she was an advocate for people with AIDS, and she died in 1992. On the Village walk, the first stop is Christopher Park, across from the Stonewall Inn and the heart of the Stonewall National Monument; sit on a bench there and read the Park Service signs before you walk on.