Stormé DeLarverie

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.