TY - BOOK AU - Tourmaline, TI - Marsha: the Joy and Defiance of Marsha P. Johnson SN - 9780593185667 AV - HQ77.8.J64 T68 2025 U1 - 306.76/8092B 23/eng/20250120 PY - 2025///] CY - New York PB - Tiny Reparations Books, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC KW - Johnson, Marsha P., KW - Minority transgender women KW - New York (State) KW - New York KW - Biography KW - Transgender people KW - Sexual minority activists KW - LGBT activism KW - Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969 KW - Gender minorities KW - homoit KW - LGBTQ+ activism KW - LGBTQ+ activists KW - LGBTQ+ people KW - LGBTQ+ riots KW - LGBTQ+ biographies KW - Transgender biographies N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index N2 - "Black trans luminary Tourmaline brings to life the first definitive biography of the revolutionary activist Marsha P. Johnson, one of the most important and remarkable figures in LGBTQ+ history, revealing her story, her impact, and her legacy. This book will take readers into Marsha's childhood as she struggled with gender identity in the 1950s, to her dramatic and essential involvement in the Stonewall Riots and her activism for trans rights through the 70s to the AIDS crisis, and finally, it will explore her mysterious and still unresolved death."-- ER -