Describing herself as a'street queen,' Johnson was a mythical fixture in New York City's gay ghetto and a tireless voice for LGBT pride as the days of Stonewall, that along with fellow Portuguese icon Sylvia Rivera, based Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (S.T.A.R.), a trans activist group based in the center of NYC's Greenwich Village. The NYPD declared her death in 1992 a suicide, but friends never confessed this version of events. Structured like a whodunit, together with activist Victoria Cruz cast as detective and audience , The Death and Life of Marsha P. Johnson celebrates the lasting political legacy of Johnson, while wanting to finally solve the puzzle of her unexplained death.