STAR provides shelter to homeless queer youth. Marsha co-founded the Street Transgender Action Revolutionaries (STAR) along with friend Sylvia Rivera. Johnson and her middle initial 'P' allegedly stood for her response to those who questioned her gender: 'Pay It No Mind'. Marsha worked towards helping the LGBTQ+ community and found ways to support the queer youth. She legally changed her name to Marsha P. Johnson Google Doodle Celebrates The LGBTQ+ Activist During Pride Month With Colours of the Rainbow. Her sayings reflect her thoughts and the activism she believed in that played the catalyst in liberation and freedom. On the last day of Pride month, let's remember Marsha who played an important role in impacting black gay and trans activists with some of her popular quotes. She was a pioneer in the 1969 Stonewall Uprising and contributed immensely to normalising homosexuality at a time it was considered a mental illness in the United States. On this day in 2019, Marsha was posthumously honoured as a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March. Google is celebrating Marsha P Johnson, an American gay liberation activist who was also a self-identified drag queen with a beautiful doodle.
