Internet search engine and technology giant Google on its home page on June 30, 2020, Marsha P. Johnson who was prominent figures in the Stonewall uprising of 1969. She is a well known American gay liberation activist, drag queen and prominent advocate for gay rights.
"Today’s Doodle, illustrated by Los Angeles-based guest artist Rob Gilliam, celebrates LGBTQ+ rights activist, performer, and self-identified drag 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 posthumously honored as a grand marshal of the New York City Pride March," informs Google website saying that she added middle initial “P.” to her name which stood “Pay It No Mind” in response to distracters questioning her gender.
The website adds, "A beloved and charismatic fixture in the LGBTQ+ community, Johnson is credited as one of the key leaders of the 1969 Stonewall 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 colour and was the first to open North America’s first shelter for LGBTQ+ youth."
She is considered to an iconic gay rights activist who stood up for freedom for the gays 'to be themselves' whose statue whose statue is going to erected in Greenwich Village in honour of transgender people.
According to Abhijit Naskar, “Pride is not an LGBT celebration, it's a human rights celebration - it's a celebration of equality - it's a celebration of inclusion - it's a celebration of acceptance.”
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