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  1. Interview with Randy Wicker

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Kearns, John J., Wicker, Randy
    Date: Feb. 1, 2003
    Topics: Black transgender people, Detention of LGBTQ+ people under a hospital order, Drag queens, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ activism, LGBTQ+ chosen families, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Gay Activists Alliance (GAA), Hot Peaches, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Uplift Lighting
    Description: An interview with Randy Wicker in which he talks about Marsha Johnson’s involvement with GAA and Heritage of Pride. He also discusses Marsha’s mental health, institutionalization, prostitution, and...
  2. Letters to the Editor

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jan. 25, 1997
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker
    Description: A letter from Randy Wicker in which he expresses frustration at seeing police officers protest directly outside of the Sixth Precinct after a march on the precinct in honor of Marsha was stopped a ...
  3. Interview with Bennie Toney and Footage of a Street Memorial for Marsha P. Johnson

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1997
    Topics: Anti-transgender violence, Black transgender people, Cold cases (Criminal investigation), Drag queens, Eyewitness accounts, LGBTQ+ memorials, Murders of LGBTQ+ people, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bennie Toney, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to transphobic violence.
  4. 1995 Xmas Letter

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 23, 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, Gay pride, Indigenous transgender people, Latino/a/x transgender people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: AIDS Memorial Candlelight Parade, Bob Hooker, Christopher Street Festival, Cocoa Rodriguez, Edward Lacey, Marsha P. Johnson, Mothers March Against AIDS, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Sylvia Rivera, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: The handwritten draft of the 1995 issue of an annual newsletter written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he provides updates on his life and business, including obituary note...
  5. Sylvia Rivera Takes Randy Wicker on a Tour of a Gay Homeless Camp in the West Village

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1995
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, HIV-positive people, Latino/a/x transgender people, LGBTQ+ people with alcohol use disorders, LGBTQ+ suicide, LGBTQ+ unhoused people, Puerto Rican women, QTPOC, Terminal care (AIDS), Trans women, Transfeminine people, Venezuelan Americans
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, Frank Constantino, Lesbian and Gay Community Services Center, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide attempts and ideation.
  6. Needed Systematic Changes

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Nov. 14, 1993
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Uplift Lighting
    Description: A document in which Randy Wicker outlines that systemic problems that he believes contributed to a lack of action in the investigation of Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  7. 1993 Xmas Letter and George Flimlin Memorial

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Birthday cakes, Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, HIV/AIDS, Indigenous transgender people, QTPOC, Roommates, Trans women, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Cocoa Rodriguez, David Combs, George Flimlin, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, The Anvil, Uplift Lighting, Willie Brashears
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains homophobic language.
  8. Marsha P. Johnson: Police Stonewall Murder

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: 1993
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Murder, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Heritage of Pride, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Stonewall
    Description: An article that describes responses to Marsha P. Johnson's death, including the re-classification of her cause of death. A version of the clipping annotated by Randy Wicker is also included here.
  9. 1992 Good Riddance to You!

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Dec. 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Stonewall riots, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Christopher Street Liberation Day March, George Flimlin, Heritage of Pride, Irish Lesbian and Gay Organization (ILGO), John Klar, Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), Tom Duane, Willie Brashears
    Description: Content Warning: This item contains potentially sensitive material related to suicide.
  10. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Gay Officers Action League Members

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Nov. 10, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Police, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Gay Officers Action League (GOAL), Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence from Randy Wicker to the members of the Gay Officers Action League concerning the police investigation into Marsha P. Johnson's death.
  11. A Letter Written by Randy Wicker to a Commander at the Sixth Precinct About Marsha P. Johnson's Death

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Oct. 8, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ demonstrations, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A letter written by Randy Wicker, Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, to Commander Kennedy at the Sixth Precinct in New York City. In the letter, Randy talks about dropping off videotapes containing info...
  12. Among the Saints

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Aug. 23, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, Gay men, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: AIDS Atheist Ministry, Karen Zeigler, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: A published response from Marsha P. Johnson's roommate, Randy Wicker, in which he clarifies remarks that appeared in an earlier article covering Marsha's memorial.
  13. Update Following March on the Sixth Precinct

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 24, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Anti-Violence Project, Bill Dobbs, Jeremiah Newton, John Gray, Marsha P. Johnson, Randy Wicker, Sergeant John Mullally, Stonewall Inn, Susan Lori
    Description: An update on the status of the investigation into the death of Marsha P. Johnson and her friends' attempts to hold investigators accountable.
  14. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Father Ken Smith, July 1992

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 21, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ memorials, QTPOC, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Bob Kohler, Ken Smith, Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence written by Marsha P. Johnson's roommate Randy Wicker to Father Ken Smith at St. Veronica's Church in New York City. Randy is writing to him to ask if he'd be intereste...
  15. Correspondence from Randy Wicker to Don Rojas

     
    Collection: Marsha P. Johnson & Sylvia Rivera Collection
    Institution: The Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center
    Creator: Wicker, Randy
    Date: Jul. 16, 1992
    Topics: Black transgender people, Drag queens, LGBTQ+ death and dying, LGBTQ+ discrimination, QTPOC, Roommates, Transfeminine people
    Subject: Marsha P. Johnson
    Description: This item is a correspondence from Randy Wicker to the executive editor of New York Amsterdam News, Don Rojas, concerning Marsha P. Johnson's death.