She was a member of the Stonewall Veterans' Association, holding the offices of Chief of Security, Ambassador and, in 1998 to 2000, Vice President. In the 1980s and '90s she worked as a bouncer for several lesbian bars in New York City. Honours and later lifeĭeLarverie's role in the Gay liberation movement lasted long after the uprisings of 1969. In 1987 Michelle Parkerson released the first cut of the movie, Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, about DeLarverie and her time with the revue. She was photographed by renowned artist Diane Arbus. DeLarverie, who cut a striking, handsome presence, inspired other lesbians to adopt what had formerly been considered "men's" clothing as street wear. The revue regularly played the Apollo Theater in Harlem, as well as to mixed-race audiences, something that was still rare during the era of Racial segregation in the United States. The Jewel Box Revueĭuring the 1950s and '60s DeLarverie toured the black theater circuit as the MC (and only drag king) of the Jewel Box Revue, North America's first racially integrated drag revue. Whether or not DeLarverie was the woman who fought her way out of the police wagon, all accounts agree that she was one of several butch lesbians who fought back against the police during the uprising. Cannistraci, an owner of the Village lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson. “'Nobody knows who threw the first punch, but it’s rumored that she did, and she said she did,' said Ms.
Bystanders recalled that the woman, whose identity remains uncertain (Stormé has been identified by some, including herself, as the woman, but accounts vary), sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted, "Why don't you guys do something?" After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became a mob and went "berserk": "It was at that moment that the scene became explosive." Some have referred to that woman as "the gay community’s Rosa Parks". She was bleeding from a head wound as she fought back. Described by a witness as "a typical New York butch" and "a dyke- stone butch," she had been hit on the head by an officer with a baton for, as one witness stated, announcing that her handcuffs were too tight. She fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes.
She was brought through the crowd by police several times, as she escaped repeatedly. ~ Stormé DeLarverie Īt the Stonewall rebellion, a scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs, who may have been Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience - it wasn’t no damn riot. Almost 50 years later, the events of Jhave been called "the Stonewall riots." However, DeLarverie was very clear that " riot" is a misleading description:
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