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Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was one of the defining moments of the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father.〔Yardley, William (May 29, 2014) "(Storme DeLarverie, Early Leader in the Gay Rights Movement, Dies at 93 )" in ''The New York Times''.〕 She is remembered as a gay civil rights icon and entertainer, who graced the stages of the Apollo Theater and Radio City Music Hall.〔 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."〔〔Luce, James (07/12/2010) "(Gay Community's Rosa Parks Faces Death, Impoverished and Alone )" in the ''Huffington Post''. Accessed 3/22/15〕 ==Stonewall uprising== Almost 50 years later, the events of June 28, 1969 have been called "the Stonewall riots." However, DeLarverie was very clear that "riot" is a misleading description: It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience — it wasn’t no damn riot. ~ ''Stormé DeLarverie'' At the Stonewall rebellion, a scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs, who may have been Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. She was brought through the crowd by police several times, as she escaped repeatedly. She fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. Described by a witness as "a typical New York butch" and "a dyke-stone butch," she had been hit on the head by an officer with a baton for, as one witness stated, announcing that her handcuffs were too tight. She was bleeding from a head wound as she fought back. Bystanders recalled that the woman, whose identity remains uncertain (Stormé has been identified by some, including herself, as the woman, but accounts vary),〔 sparked the crowd to fight when she looked at bystanders and shouted, "Why don't you guys do something?" After an officer picked her up and heaved her into the back of the wagon, the crowd became a mob and went "berserk": "It was at that moment that the scene became explosive." Some have referred to that woman as "the gay community’s Rosa Parks".〔〔 “'Nobody knows who threw the first punch, but it’s rumored that she did, and she said she did,' said Ms. Cannistraci, an owner of the Village lesbian bar Henrietta Hudson. 'She told me she did.'”〔 Whether or not DeLarverie was ''the'' woman who fought her way out of the police wagon, all accounts agree that she was one of several butch lesbians who fought back against the police during the uprising.〔〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Stormé DeLarverie」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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