NYC Monument Will Honor Transgender Activists Marsha P. Johnson And Sylvia Rivera

Transgender activists Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera will be honored with a monument near the historic Stonewall Inn in New York City, officials announced on Thursday, May 30.

Johnson and Rivera long advocated for the LGBTQ community and were leaders in the Stonewall Uprisings in 1969, according to their biographies from NYC Department of Cultural A…