While we may never definitively knows who threw what, when, at the #StonewallRiots, few dispute that it was #StormeDeLarverie, the baritone #DragKing and bi-racial #Lesbian, who threw the first punch—at the cop who told her to “Move along, faggot,” and shoved her when she refused—after which she was jumped by four officers, and when she complained that her cuffs were too tight, one of them cracked her over the head with his baton. As she was being dragged to the police van, her head bleeding, DeLarverie turned to those looking on, and yelled “Why don’t you guys do something,” thus inciting the crowd to rush the police and throw the now-infamous bricks (gathered from a nearby building site); earning her the sobriquet of “the #RosaParks of the #GayRightsMovement.” This year, during PRIDE, please raise a glass to Stormé DeLarverie, who said of those six nights in 1969, “It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil disobedience. It wasn’t no damn riot!” (Photos: top left MISS STORME DE LARVERIE [sic], THE LADY WHO APPEARS TO BE A GENTLEMAN, NYC, 1961 by @Diane_Arbus; top right by #AveryWillard; bottom right by @MichelleAgins) . . #GetIntoIt #StorméDeLarverie #Hero #StonewallVeteransAssociation #LGBTRights #LGBTHistory #LGBT #LGBTQ #PRIDE #BLM (at The Stonewall Inn) https://www.instagram.com/p/CBcWo1vFc2y/?igshid=9fiszdxgukqg
