Marsha P Johnson pictured at a march in the early ’70s. (Getty)

In the early hours of 28 June, 1969, Marsha P Johnson arrived at New York’s Stonewall Inn to discover all hell breaking loose.

The bar, one of the city’s most prominent queer spaces, had been raided by police earlier that night. The fightback that followed went down in history.

Over the course of that night, and the days that followed, a new kind of radical queer activism was born. Marsha P Johnson would go on to become one of its most notable figures.

By the time of her death in 1992, Johnson had proven unequivocally that she was the model of what activism could achieve. During her lifetime, she co-founded the Gay Liberation Front and also helped set up the radical activist group Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR).

Read the full article here written by Patrick Kelleher.