Tourmaline is also a model and a scholar. A brief kick line by 12 drag queens that broke up as soon as the police moved Or maybe, just maybe, it was the 500-700 young gay men & Stormé DeLarverie, a butch lesbian who resisted. Black jazz singer Stormé Delarverie began her career as a male impersonator with the Jewel Box Revue, a touring company of female impersonators. Not long after Stonewall, DeLarverie’s partner, a dancer named Diana, passed away, and the drag king retired from performing almost entirely. Johnson’s life, just hours before the Stonewall Riots took place. Her performances, like Hindle’s, involved singing, but Wesner also danced, sometimes with a female partner, and always while dressed as a man. Tourmaline - Tourmaline is an activist and filmmaker, most known for her film “Happy Birthday, Marsha!,” which follows a fictionalized version of Marsha P. She started singing in New Orleans clubs at 15, and soon. She had a beautiful baritone voice and discovered a love for jazz at a very early age. She was born in New Orleans on Christmas Eve to a Black mother and white father. Learn more about Marsha, here, here and here. Storm DeLarverie was a butch lesbian with zero tolerance for discrimination, or as she called it, ugliness. She’s also credited with helping to ignite the Stonewall Riots. William Yardley, ‘Storme DeLarverie, Early Leader in the Gay. They lived together for 25 years, but tragically Diana passed away during the 1970s. Storme DeLarverie DeLarverie lived for several years at the Chelsea Hotel, and a handful of documentaries have explored DeLarverie’s drag persona and her time as a guardian of the Village.
Unfortunately we know little about Diana, but we do know that Stormé adored her. Along with Sylvia Rivera, she helped found STAR - an effort to help house homeless trans people - and was prominently involved in AIDS activism in the 80’s. Her time performing she managed to meet her partner Diana like Stormé she was a performer, being a dancer. The true story of Storm DeLarverie, a badass Black lesbian security guard who protected members of the gay nightlife community from the mafia who owned. Johnson - Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson was a Stonewall veteran, an activist and performer. Learn more about Storme here, here and here. As Kay mentions, she was most known for her community policing - walking along in the village making sure no one harassed members of the community. Storme DeLarverie - Storme was a Stonewall veteran and activist and rumored to be the person to throw the first punch and actually ignite the riots. Learn more about Sylvia here, here and here. She helped found STAR - an effort to help house homeless trans people. Sylvia Rivera - Sylvia Rivera was a Stonewall Veteran and activist, who fought tirelessly for the rights of trans people, people of color, low-income and homeless members of the lgbtq+ community, all groups who were purposely pushed out of early gay rights organizing.
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