New York City officials announced Thursday that Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be honored with a permanent monument in New York City.
Transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be two of the first trans women to be honoured with permanent monuments anywhere in the world. “Their fierce determination and commitment to coalition building have made New York City, the nation and world more just and fair,” the committee wrote. A monument honoring Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera was recommended by the She Built NYC committee convened to evaluate the public nominations and advise on actions.
According to The New York Times, transgender activists and pioneers of the LGBTQ movement Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, both of whom were engaged in the 1969 riot at the Stonewall Inn, will be honored in a monument in New York’s Greenwich Village. In recognition of the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots, New York’s newest public monument will be a memorial to two trailblazing transgender activists, Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera.

… The monuments will […] LGBTQ pioneers Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson to be honored The iconic activists, who co-founded Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries, will be honored with a monument … The monument … Days before Pride Month celebrations kicked off around the world, the city announced that a monument to iconic transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera is in the works for downtown Manhattan, the sixth in a line of public arts projects planned to honor local women’s history. New York City are set to honour two of the biggest names connected with the US Pride movement and the infamous Stonewall riots with new monuments. Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, two transgender activists, will be honored with a monument proposed for Greenwich Village, the city announced Thursday, days before the start of Pride Month.

Greenwich Village monument will honor LGBTQ activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera It will be the first permanent, public artwork to honor transgender women in …

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