The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson
Marsha P. Johnson has been called “the Rosa Parks of the LGBTQ movement,” because of the pivotal role she played in the Stonewall riots of 1969 alongside the likes of Sylvia Rivera and others. She was also a pioneer of the gay liberation movement, co-founder of S.T.A.R. (Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries), a self-proclaimed drag queen, community leader and, according to her friend and roommate, Randy Wicker, an “Andy Warhol model, prostitute, starving actress and saint.” Her life and tragic death is captured in the Netflix doc from David France, who says, “If you were in New York in gay New York, in queer New York during her lifetime, you knew Marsha.”
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Rita Moreno’s Life and Career Detailed in New Doc
In “Rita Moreno’s Life and Career Detailed in New Doc: ‘She Was the One Who Gave Us Representation,’”
Seth Abramovitch (
The Hollywood Reporter) writes, “With ‘Rita Moreno: Just a Girl Who Decided to Go for It,’ the 89-year-old EGOT winner gets her due as a trailblazing Latinx icon.”
“An EGOT? What good’s an EGOT? An EGOT doesn’t fill a deeper need to be loved and taken care of,” says Rita Moreno.
The 89-year-old screen icon one of only 16 people to win a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, aka an “EGOT” is reflecting on her doomed affair with Marlon Brando, whom she met in 1954 on the set of the historical romance Désirée. After years of infidelity and heartache, the couple self-destructed when Moreno got pregnant and Brando insisted she get an abortion. That led to Moreno swallowing a bottle of sleeping pills she’d found in Brando’s medicine cabinet. Had Brando’