I’m not sure where to post this, but yesterday. Amazons Question of the Day, one of their Alexa apps, asked ‘which of the following historical figures started the Stonewall riots’. I knew before the options were read out that Amazon was going to say Marsha P Johnson. Amazon them went on to misgender Johnson, referring to him as ‘her’ and ‘she’, even though there are interviews available where Johnson describes himself as a gay man in drag.
It feels like a losing battle to get the correct version of history out there.
Interestingly, Storme, the butch lesbian who did kick it all off, didn’t get a mention.