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Stormé DeLarverie, known as the "Rosa Parks of the lesbian community" (born 1920)

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Stormé DeLarverie

American singer, activist and instigator of the Stonewall Uprising (1920–2014)

Stormé DeLarverie was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. She was born in New Orleans, to an African American…
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May 24

Day of the year

May 24 is the 144th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar; 221 days remain until the end of the year.
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