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Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action.
Jun 27, 2019 · Nobody knows for sure who threw the first punch at the Stonewall Uprising in New York City in 1969. But it’s widely believed that it could have been Stormé DeLarverie, a lifelong gay rights ...
Sep 30, 2018 · Stormé DeLarverie, a gay rights activist best known for her part in the Stonewall uprisings, was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1920. She celebrated her birthday on December 24, but she was not certain of her true date of birth.
May 24, 2014 · Stormé DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, “ugliness.” She was born in New Orleans on Christmas Eve to a Black mother and white father. She had a beautiful baritone voice and discovered a love for jazz at a very early age.
Stormé (she pronounced it "Storm" in Lady of the Jewel Box when she introduced herself; her nickname "Stormy" goes back to when she performed as Stormy Dale in the 1940s) was a generous, fiercely protective, complex, and loving person who refused to label herself but instead existed — and thrived — in liminal spaces.
Mar 29, 2018 · DeLarverie performed as a drag king, or “male impersonator,” as it was known in the past, with the Jewel Box Revue from 1955 to 1969. Prior to that, she had been a singer with big bands — as swing and jazz orchestras were known — since 1939. DeLarverie was born in New Orleans in 1920.
May 29, 2014 · Storme DeLarverie, a singer, cross-dresser and bouncer who may or may not have thrown the first punch at the 1969 uprising at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, but who was...
