![]() ![]() Superhero.” … She was not to be messed with by any stretch of the imagination. Girls.” … “She literally walked the streets of downtown Manhattan like a gay She called “ugliness”: any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her “baby Film on the Life and Times of Stonewall Veteran Storme DeLarverie by Sam Bassett If we turn our back, she will die. The sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. Lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues and points between into her 80s, patrolling Her obituary read:Īndrogynous and armed - she held a state gun permit - Ms. She herself would pass away on May 24,Ģ014 after suffering a heart attack in her sleep. Photograph of Diana with her at all times. Village.” After her partner Diana passed away in 1970, Stormé carried around a Worker, which gave her the reputation of being the “guardian of lesbians in the ![]() Stormé also volunteered as a street patrol She would work for several years as aīouncer for multiple lesbian bars as well as a leading officer of Known as a hero in the NYC lesbian scene. Stonewall Riots and the subsequent Gay Rights Movement, Stormé became Stormé posing as her drag king persona which she assumed for over 20 years ( x). One first-hand witness would say that “it was at that moment that the scene The story goes that after the NYPD initiatedĪ surprise raid of the Inn and began attempting to arrest many of theįighting back and screamed at the onlookers while being handcuffed, “Why don’t you guys do something?” Known as 'The Rosa Parks of the gay movement.' Stormé DeLarverie was born in New Orleans to a white father and black mother. Halfway through that fateful year, she found herself living in New York CityĪnd frequenting the Stonewall Inn. A singer, performer, and gay rights activist who sparked the Stonewall Riots. Integrated drag troupe, as the troupe’s MC and only drag king performer until 1969. DeLarverie’s role in the Gay liberation movement lasted long after the uprisings of 1969. Finally, when a police officer clubbed a butch lesbian named Stormé DeLarverie over the head for saying that her handcuffs were too tight, a violent riot broke out and the crowd exploded. ![]() Would then tour with The Jewel Box Revue, North America’s very first racially As a teenager she rode horses with the Ringling Brothers Circus, during which she met her partner of over 25 years, aįrom her horse and suffering an injury, Stormé’s circus career came to an end. She would also recall first realizing that she was a lesbian at age 18. She would later recall suffering from bullying due to the fact that her father was white and her mother wasīlack. Stormé DeLarverie photographed in the last years of her life ( x). In history on the night of Jwhen her scuffle with the NYPD incited Legend Stormé DeLarverie was born on this day in 1920. ![]()
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