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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.
Mar 29, 2018 · Drag Herstory: A Drag King's Journey From Cabaret Legend to Iconic Activist. At Stonewall and beyond, Stormé DeLarverie walked in lockstep with queer history. By Elyssa Goodman.
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.
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...
Stormé DeLarverie was a drag king and butch lesbian born in 1920 to a white father and a black mother. She began touring as a singer with jazz bands in 1939, and in 1955, she became the MC and only drag king in the Jewel Box Review, “a traveling musical show of gender deception”.
Stormé fought against "ugliness" all her life, the term she used for harassment and hate towards the LGBTQ+ community. She protected her friends and chosen family, her "babies", and women and children in need.
In this episode's final story, we profile Stormé Delarvarie, the activist, organizer, and celebrated drag performer who - legend has it - threw the punch that started a revolution.
