# @greenpeaceusa on Instagram

- **Type:** Video
- **Original URL:** https://www.instagram.com/p/CtX247qOI5T
- **Gondola URL:** https://gondola.cc/posts/7224201-greenpeaceusa-instagram
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- **Posted:** 2023-06-12T00:00:00.000+00:00
- **Account Owner:** Greenpeace USA (@greenpeaceusa) — https://gondola.cc/greenpeaceusa

## Caption

As we celebrate Pride month it’s important to acknowledge and remember the woman who ignited the movement. 🧱 Marsha P Johnson is one of the most iconic and impactful figures in the queer liberation.

After graduating from high school, Marsha changed her name and moved to NYC where she found joy as a self-made drag queen in Greenwich Village. Though New York criminalized the LGBTQ+ community at the time, Marsha discovered her found family, most notably Andy Warhol and Sylvia Rivera, and acted as a “house mother” to many homeless queer youth. Drag made a hugely positive difference in her life. In her own words she believed “I was no one, nobody, from Nowheresville until I became a drag queen. That’s what made me in New York, that’s what made me in New Jersey, that’s what made me in the world.”

Regardless of who actually threw that first brick that turned an uprising at the Stonewall Inn into a movement, Marsha became (and remains) a prominent voice in the journey towards queer equality. In fact, in 2019, she became the the first transgender person to have statue built of her in NYC!

If you’re wondering what Marsha’s story and Pride has to do with climate change and the environment, read her quote again. Climate change affects us all, but disproportionately impacts marginalized communities, particularly Black, Indigenous and Queer. Queer justice is racial justice is gender justice is climate justice. We all have a place in the fight for a more sustainable and equitable present.
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#pridemonth #pride #pride2023 #transrights #lgbtcommunity #lgbtq #pridetogether #queerpride

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transrights, queerpride, pridemonth, lgbtq, pridetogether, pride2023, lgbtcommunity, pride

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