24: The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

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4.2 • 34.9K Ratings

🗓️ 7 November 2017

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Who killed Marsha P. Johnson?

When the beloved, self-described "street queen" of NY's gay ghetto was found floating in the Hudson River in 1992, the NYPD chalked it up as a suicide and refused to investigate. But Marsha was a lover of life and many who knew her refused to believe she would have taken her own life.

Now, a quarter century later, at a time of unprecedented visibility and escalating violence in the transgender community, Marsha's old friend and fellow activist Victoria Cruz has taken it upon herself to reexamine what happened to Marsha. Dipping deep into jaw-dropping archival footage of another era of New York City life, The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson follows as this champion pursues leads, mobilizes officials, and works to tell the story of Marsha's life and get to the bottom of Marsha's death.

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0:57.0	I came out of the shower and Daisy was hiding, which she is want to do. But normally, after
1:01.0	a minute of calling her, she'll be like, I'm here, Daddy. I'm here. And I found her
1:04.8	in the hall closet and I opened the closet and she was sitting with her back to the door.
1:09.6	And I said, baby, what are you doing? She's a daddy. I'm hiding. And I said, why? And she
1:14.2	goes, because he's coming. Stop! I swear I got it.
1:19.2	Because who is coming?
1:21.2	So, what are we doing today? We are doing the life and death of Marsha P. Johnson.
1:30.4	Which I am so excited about. And in a way, I feel like honor to be bringing the story
1:35.4	of my people to our people. Amazing. I'm so happy that we're doing this. And so, Julian
1:40.6	and I wanted to say, you guys, Julian is the funniest. It's why you listen to this podcast.
1:45.4	Well, I was going to say it's mostly me. This is very important to me that we get out of this.
1:49.7	But we get this little disclaimer. So listen, this film, this documentary focuses very much
1:54.8	on the LGBT community and the trans community within the LGBT community and telling the
2:00.4	story of sort of the trans movement and this murder that happened. And we are coming at
2:05.5	this from a place of love. However, we are going to do our thing. I'm requiring Jillian
2:10.6	to make me laugh. She's a little bit nervous. She's too white and too straight.
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