The cult of St. Marsha is very strange. It's clear from the documentary about Johnson that he was a very difficult personality, sometimes threatening to the people around him. I think I heard he was banned from some local gay bars in the 70s/80s for being hostile towards other patrons.

That's part of what makes me wonder what the hell was going on in the 6-7 months that he and Sylvia Rivera were trying to help homeless gay youth via the much-mythologized S.T.A.R. I mean, imagine having nowhere else to go but an apartment rented by someone with untreated schizophrenia.