and newspaper clippings from Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, and their revolutionary contemporaries. In an essay entitled, “How ...

especially Marsha P. Johnson in her signature flower crown, smiling radiantly at the camera. But while modern retellings of Stonewall so often fixate on the question of who threw the first brick ...

“Everyone was like, ‘Who are you? What is this?’” Strangio, who grew up in Newton, recalled with a laugh. He took down the ...

By some accounts, either Marsha P. Johnson or Sylvia Rivera—gender-nonconforming activists on the scene—hurled the first brick at police raiding the Stonewall Inn, in June, 1969, launching the ...