Marsha is a variant of Marcia — from the Latin Mars, the Roman god of war. **Marsha P. Johnson (1945-1992)** — Black American transgender activist and self-identified drag queen; **a prominent figure in the Stonewall uprising of June 1969 in Greenwich Village**, widely credited as a key catalyst of the modern LGBTQ rights movement. **Co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR) in 1970** with Sylvia Rivera to house homeless transgender youth. **Her body was found in the Hudson River on July 6, 1992**; initially ruled suicide, the case was reopened in 2012 as possible homicide. **Time named her one of the 100 Most Influential People of All Time (2020)**.
Subject of *The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson* (2017 Netflix documentary).
Marsha reduces to eight — the number of Stonewall catalyst.