Tanya Walker on Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall Riots

Tanya Walker discusses Marsha P. Johnson’s role in the Stonewall Riots. Walker is a co-founder of the New York Transgender Advocacy Group and an Honorably Discharged U.S. Army Veteran. Video from the National Park Service's Stonewall Oral History Project, in partnership with the LGBT Community Center and the Lower East Side Tenement Museum. Photograph by Diana Davies, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library.

[slappyhillier]

Marsha said herself that she arrived at 2 when the riot had alredy started though im not downplaying how important she was to the movement and community as a whole and with S.T.A.R but we need to stop rewiring history if any well known people should be attributed it should be Sylvia since she was there for the start though i believe we should just stick to the facts of what happend. The drag queens were escorted out and the queens had enough stones and bricks and the rest is history.

[K_F_P]

At least he is being called a drag queen here. In his own words he said that he was a boy. The theft and rewriting of history is scandalous.