The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

About The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson

Describing herself as a 'street queen,' Johnson was a legendary fixture in New York City’s gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride since the days of Stonewall, who along with fellow trans icon Sylvia Rivera, founded Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.

David France's The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson is a 2017 documentary film. The film is filed under drag queen, cold case, activist, and trans woman.

Marsha P. Johnson appears as Self (archive footage), Victoria Cruz as Self, Sylvia Rivera as Self (archive footage), and Taylor Mead as Self (archive footage). Released in July 2017, it runs 105 minutes.

The screenplay is by David France and Mark Blane. In the United States it streams on Netflix and Netflix Standard with Ads.

Milk, Before Night Falls, and Torch Song Trilogy make useful companions to The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson, all filed under biography, gay history, and LGBT. TMDB voters put it at 7.1 out of 10 across 107 votes.