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今日はマーシャ・P・ジョンソンを讃えるGoogle Doodleになっています。

この讃えられている人物は誰なのか。

Googleの説明文を引用し紹介します。

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Today’s Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Rob Gilliam, celebrates 1LGBTQ+ rights activist, performer, and self-identified 2drag queen Marsha P. Johnson, who is widely credited as one of the pioneers of the LGBTQ+ rights movement in the United States. On this day in 2019, Marsha was 3posthumously honored as a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March.

1　Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, Transgender, Questioning　性的少数者の総称
2　ドラァグクイーン・・男性が女性の姿で行うパフォーマンスの一種
3　死後に

Marsha P. Johnson was born Malcolm Michaels Jr. on August 24th, 1945, in Elizabeth, New Jersey. After graduating high school in 1963, she moved to New York City’s Greenwich Village, a burgeoning cultural hub for LGBTQ+ people. Here, she legally changed her name to Marsha P. Johnson. Her middle initial−“P.”−4allegedly stood for her response to those who questioned her gender: “Pay It No Mind.”

4　伝えられるところによると

A beloved and charismatic fixture in the LGBTQ+ community, Johnson is credited as one of the key leaders of the 1969 5Stonewall uprising− widely regarded as a critical turning point for the international LGBTQ+ rights movement. The following year, she founded the Street Transvestite (now Transgender) Action Revolutionaries (STAR) with fellow transgender activist Sylvia Rivera. STAR was the first organization in the U.S. to be led by a trans woman of color and was the first to open North America’s first shelter for LGBTQ+ youth.

5　ストーンウォールの反乱

In 2019, New York City announced plans to erect statues of Johnson and Rivera in Greenwich Village, which will be one of the world’s first monuments in honor of transgender people.

Thank you, Marsha P. Johnson, for inspiring people everywhere to stand up for the freedom to be themselves.

ここまで


マーシャ・P・ジョンソンはゲイ開放活動家、トランスジェンダー活動家です。
LGBTQの権利獲得運動をやっていました。

ここに載ってはないんですが、最期が謎だったようで。
ハドソン川で遺体が発見されたのです。
外傷はあったのですが、警察は自殺として処理しました。
2012年に自殺から未解決と変更しましたが、真相は謎のまま。