Marsha P. Johnson has been considered one of the most important activists in the confrontations with police during the Stonewall riots. In the early 1970s, Johnson and her friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the organization Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR); together they participated in gay liberation marches and radical political actions. In the decade In 1980, Johnson continued her street activism as a respected organizer and marshall of ACT UP. Along with Rivera, Johnson was a “mother” at STAR House, handing out clothes and food to help drag queens, trans women and young people who lived on the Christopher Street docks or at her house on the Lower East Side of NY.
In July 1992, Johnson's body was found floating in the Hudson River, not far from the West Village Pier, shortly after the Pride March. Police ruled the death a suicide. Johnson's friends and supporters said she was not suicidal, and a poster campaign later claimed that Johnson had been harassed on the day of her death near where her body was found. Demands to have the police investigate the cause of death were unsuccessful. After a strong campaign led by activist Mariah Lopez, the New York Police Department reopened the case in November 2012 as a possible homicide.

Carlos Jáuregui was born in La Plata on September 22, 1957 and died in Buenos Aires on August 20, 1996. He was 38 years old.

He is recognized and remembered for being the first president of the Argentine Homosexual Community (CHA) between 1984 and 1987, and for leading, in 1992, the first Gay Lesbian Pride march in Buenos Aires. In 1991 he also founded the Gays for Civil Rights Association.
He helped promote the first civil union project and the inclusion of sexual orientation in the anti-discrimination clause of the Constitution of the City of Buenos Aires.