So there are TERFs and SWERFs out there now who are claiming
Stormé DeLarverie as ‘their’ Stonewall heritage because she identified as a butch lesbian and to those TERFs and SWERFs I just want to say: FUCK YOU.
Stormé DeLarverie was an african american gender nonconforming butch lesian and a hero and she was no fucking TERF or SWERF.
Stormé was a regular at the Stonewall where the majority of the visitors were trans, the majority was people of color and the majority was involved in some kind of sex work. This was the community she was part of, these were many of her friends, these were the people she protected. After Stonewall she continues to work at and frequent bars that put up drag shows and provided safe spaces for transgender people. As a gender nonconforming person she stood in solidarity with transgender people and queer sex workers and frequently risked her life for them.
It is typical that TERFs and SWERFs are trying to do this 3 years after her death because if you all did this while she was alive she would have told you to fuck off before she could get her baseball bat. How dare you shit on everything she stood for.
Fuck you for trying to tarnish her memory with your hate.
You disgust me.
Storme was the MC and “sole woman member”* of a drag troupe, the Jewel Box Revue, from 1955 to 1969. This is on wikipedia even. So she worked with two dozen “female impersonators”** for over a decade, right up until the year Stonewall happened, bc she despised them and they posed a threat to her… is that the story?
*That’s how she was billed. I expect at least some of the drag queens were actually trans women, but I don’t have info on hand about that.
** Likewise, this is how the show was billed at the time, not how I’m describing it now.
Yeah, there is soooooooo much evidence that Storme worked with trans people, protected trans people and considered them part of her community. It’s ridiculous that TERFs are even doing this and the fact that they’re doing it 3 years after her death is telling and infuriating.
*and yeah, a lot of trans women have at times (1) identified as queens or female impersonators because we all have a road to knowing who we are (2) been booked as queens or
female impersonators
because that was who could perform (3) used ‘queen’ as a group identity for genderdiverse people with similar experiences.
QueerAnarchism 