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The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

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2017
1h 45m
English
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Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the heart of NYC’s Greenwich Village. Her death in 1992 was declared a suicide by the NYPD, but friends never accepted that version of events. Structured as a whodunit, with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience surrogate, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while seeking to finally solve the mystery of her unexplained death.
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Cast

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Marsha P Johnson
Self (archive footage)
Victoria Cruz
Sylvia Rivera
Self (archive footage)
Taylor Mead
Self (archive footage)
Pat Bumgardner
Self (archive footage)
Vito Russo
Self (archive footage)
Directed By: David France
Written By: Mark Blane, David France

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The8100 says...
7 years ago
I liked it wasn’t just about Marsha’s life, which would have been a great doc by itself. But it was even better with tying her story with the fact that still today Transgender killings are not treated as important by the police or the public. Shocking so little has changed.
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sungoddess says...
6 years ago
I just finished watching “The Death and Life of Marsha P Johnson”... spent the last twenty minutes or so with tears running down my face. Unexpectedly, it was Sylvia Rivera’s story, woven into the larger tale that broke my heart. Islam Nettles story too, illustrates how little has changed for transgendered women since Marsha’s body was found.
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miguelreina says...
4 years ago
[Netflix] The LGBTQ + movement has many victims, some of them victims of oblivion. Marsha P. Johnson was one of them, and although this documentary does not offer too much information about her (despite the title), it reminds us that the Gay Pride has been built burying in memory to some of its promoters. It is the fate of trans people, to be victims of transphobia within their own community.
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