Stormé DeLarverie

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Domain

Arts and letters

Knowledge cost

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Influence

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Resistance

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What Wikipedia says

Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American known as the lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action.

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Image: “Stormé DeLarverié (center), surrounded by three female impersonators at Roberts Show Club,” Schomburg Digital Collections, New York Public Library, 1958. Colorized by Eli Erlick, CC BY 4.0, via Wikimedia Commons.