"The white kids were beating me up the Black kids were. As a biracial child, DeLarverie faced bullying and harassment from the other children. Her father paid for her education, and she was largely raised by her grandfather. She celebrated her birthday on December 24, Christmas Eve. According to DeLarverie, she was never given a birth certificate and was not certain of her actual date of birth. Her mother was African American and worked as a servant for his family. She worked for much of her life as an MC, singer, bouncer, bodyguard, and volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village." She is known as "the Rosa Parks of the gay community." Before StonewallĭeLarverie's father was white and wealthy. She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who performed and hosted at the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father. Stormé DeLarverie (Decem– 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. American singer, activist and instigator of the Stonewall Uprising (1920–2014)
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