Half a century after Stonewall kicked off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement, one of its most prominent figures,The announcement that East River Park in Williamsburg would be renamed was made by New York Governor Andrew Cuomo on Saturday during a speech at the annual Human Rights Campaign gala.
Johnson will have the distinction of being the first openly LGBTQ+ person to have a state park named after her. The news comes a little less than a year after New York City's First Lady, Chirlane McCray, unveiled plans for
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