smalldarlinglesbian:

Lesbian History:

Storme DeLarverie - Activist
(December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014)

  • she threw a punch at a police officer - the defining moment that incited the Stonewall riots (however she herself said, 50 years later: “It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience — it wasn’t no damn riot.“)
  • was known as the “guardian of lesbians of the village”
  • from her obituary in the New York Times:
    • “Tall, androgynous and armed — she held a state gun permit — Ms. DeLarverie roamed lower Seventh and Eighth Avenues and points between into her 80s, patrolling the sidewalks and checking in at lesbian bars. She was on the lookout for what she called “ugliness”: any form of intolerance, bullying or abuse of her “baby girls”.”
  • the hero we owe so much too ♥
channing-hepburn: “ bananapeppers: “ captainfunkpunkandroll: “Storme ” photographed by Avery Willard ” Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose purported scuffle with police, many eyewitnesses recount, was the...

channing-hepburn:

bananapeppers:

captainfunkpunkandroll:

Storme

photographed by Avery Willard

Stormé DeLarverie (December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was a butch lesbian whose purported scuffle with police, many eyewitnesses recount, was the defining moment that incited the Stonewall riots, spurring the crowd to action.  

h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y: “POETS & WRITERS🌿✏️ #DianeBogus in a handsome tee printed in the magazine “Sister Source” based in Chicago. Aug 1, 1982. Thanks to @dykebarchi and @kristenkaza for the image and text. #lesbianculture #lesbianwriter #lesbianpoet...

h-e-r-s-t-o-r-y:

POETS & WRITERS🌿✏️ #DianeBogus in a handsome tee printed in the magazine “Sister Source” based in Chicago. Aug 1, 1982. Thanks to @dykebarchi and @kristenkaza for the image and text. #lesbianculture #lesbianwriter #lesbianpoet #dykepoet #qpoc #blacklesbians #chicagodyke #sistersource #fascinatingmidwestlesbians (at Chicago, Illinois)

blackqueernotables: “ Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton: The first person to perform the song “Hound Dog” ”

blackqueernotables:

Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton: The first person to perform the song “Hound Dog”.

blackqueernotables: “Audre Lorde: “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.” ”

blackqueernotables:

Audre Lorde: “black, lesbian, mother, warrior, poet.”

milkandheavysugar:

“Without Sister Rosetta Tharpe, we wouldn’t have rock and roll as we know it now. Her pioneering guitar virtuosity was fueled by the gospel swinging, shouting, holy-spirit energy of the evangelical church and the blues she heard on Chicago’s Maxwell Street, which crossed each other like crackling live wires in her hands – and boom, we’re at the beginning of the revolution that would later be widely and wrongly attributed, almost entirely, to the white teens and young men who emulated her. “ - Cheryl Pawelski