Stormé DeLarverie (1920 - 2014)
American woman and butch lesbian whose scuffle with police
was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark
that ignited the 1969 Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action;
she worked as an MC, singer, drag king, bouncer, bodyguard,
and volunteer street patrol worker, the "guardian of lesbians in the Village;"
from 1955-1969, she performed with the Jewel Box Revue,
North America's first racially integrated drag revue;
although she did not publicly express a gender identity, today's term
"non-binary" probably comes the closest.
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