smalldarlinglesbian:Lesbian History:Storme DeLarverie - Activist(December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) s
smalldarlinglesbian:Lesbian History:Storme DeLarverie - Activist(December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) she threw a punch at a police officer - the defining moment that incited the Stonewall riots (however she herself said, 50 years later: “It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience — it wasn’t no damn riot.“)was known as the “guardian of lesbians of the village”from her obituary in the New York Times: “Tall, androgynous and armed — she held a state gun permit — Ms. DeLarverie roamed lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues and points between into her 80s, patrolling the sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. She was on the lookout for what she called “ugliness”: any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her “baby girls”.”the hero we owe so much too ♥ -- source link