As a large crowd of mostly gay people gathered outside, DeLarverie was led outside in handcuffs and bleeding from the head, having been beaten by officers after complaining her handcuffs were too tight. On June 28, 1969, DeLarvarie was arrested in a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn by the Public Morals Squad (although the bar was Mafia-owned, the raid was ordered just to arrest gay people). They are also thought to have influenced current gender nonconforming fashion up to the present day. Her performances were highly influential as they were unique and are now known to have been unprecedented at the time. During shows audience members would try to guess who the "one girl" was, among the revue performers, and at the end Stormé would reveal herself as a woman. She first realised that she was a lesbian (a woman attracted to other women) around the age of eighteen.įrom 1955 to 1969 DeLarvarie performed with the Jewel Box Revue as a drag king and baritone singer. She has been compared to Rosa Parks for her role in Stonewall.ĭeLarvarie, a mixed-race woman whose mother was African-American, was formerly a show jumper with the Ringling Brothers Circus until she was injured after falling off a horse.
DeLarverie was also a stage performer and drag king as well as an advocate for battered women.
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Stormé DeLarverie (possibly born DecemMay 24, 2014) was an American lesbian entertainer whose scuffle with police is believed to be the inciting incident of the Stonewall riots, a series of spontaneous demonstrations that shaped the gay rights movement of the twentieth century. ― Stormé DeLarverie on her role in the Stonewall riots.
Those cops got the surprise of their lives - those queens were not going to take it any longer.
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