The 11-acre East River State Park in Williamsburg will be renamed to honor Stonewall riots activist Marsh P. Johnson, making it the first state park in New York’s history to be named after an LGBTQ person.
Brooklyn park to be renamed after Marsha P. Johnson, a transgender woman of color who fought for LGBTQ rights and was a prominent…
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