TITLE: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Genres:
Documentary
SCORE: 7.102
VOTES: 103
RUN TIME:
1h 45m
RELEASED: Jul 27, 2017
RATING: NR
SAVE:
OVERVIEW:
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.
STARRING:
Name: Sylvia Rivera
Character: Self (archive footage)
Name: Taylor Mead
Character: Self (archive footage)
Name: Vito Russo
Character: Self (archive footage)
Name: Victoria Cruz
Character: Self
Name: Marsha P. Johnson
Character: Self (archive footage)