A state park in Brooklyn will be renamed after legendary transgender activist Marsha P. Johnson.

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo made the announcement on Saturday during a speech at an HRC gala, where he called her "an icon of the community."

In May of last year, it was announced that Johnson and Sylvia Rivera were to be honored with a monument, proposed for a location near the Stonewall Inn, where both are said to have played key roles in the 1969 Stonewall Riots.

A poster of Johnson is unveiled during an event in New York City on May 30, 2019 announcing the plan to create a monument honoring both she and Rivera.

Johnson, along with Rivera, also ran Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), which provided shelter for homeless LGBTQ youth and sex workers, and engaged in activism and organizing work. She was also a member of ACT UP, where she was active in helping raise awareness during the HIV/AIDS epidemic through direct action, and was a founding member of the Gay Liberation Front.

Cuomo also pledged to take aim at New York's ban on gestational surrogacy. The governor unveiled a proposal calling for an end to the prohibition on gestational surrogacy at the end of last year, saying it was necessary "to help support LGBTQ couples and people struggling with fertility start families."

"New York State is the progressive capital of the nation, and while we are winning the legal battle for justice for the LGBTQ community, in many ways we are losing the broader war for equality," he said.

"Even in New York, attacks against African Americans, Jewish Americans, Muslim Americans and LGBTQ Americans went up by double digits. These attacks are motivated by fear and intolerance against those who are 'different,' and they are blind to the commonality of humanity. We are fighting back, and we will continue achieving progress and showing the rest of the nation the way forward. We will do it again this year by passing gestational surrogacy to complete marriage and family equality. And we will name the first State park after an LGBTQ person and we will name it after Marsha P. Johnson—an icon of the community."