27-8 June 1969 Stonewall: the evidence

Lillian Faderman The Gay Revolution - The Story of the Struggle New York 2016 Part 4: Earthquake: The Stonewall Years p171-182 p172 Arrival of police Ref 3: The Stonewalls 'riots'  (sic) have been described extensively by eye-witnesses Time 01:20 - ref? Ref 4: The term  transgender  didn't yet have currency in 1969 Ref 5: David Carter, Stonewall New York 2004 p141.  CBD: Several  "drag queens" said they were "ladies" and were taken by police women to the toilet,  (CBD: there were two female undercover police officers, in the Stonewall before the raid) Ref 5: David Carter, Stonewall New York 2004 p141.  A small knot of lesbian patrons (ie more than one) were also singled out for special attention when a couple of them got feisty, back-talking to the officers, yelling "We have a right to be here!" Ref 7: a range of sources cited Ref 8: Inspector Pine (senior police officer at the raid) 2004 talk for...

2 June 2019 Stormé DeLarverie   24 Dec 1920 – 24 May 2014) Wikipedia:  Stormé DeLarverie  (24 Dec 1920 – 24 May 2014)  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Storm%C3%A9_DeLarverie [1] Chu, Grace (26 July 2010) From the Archives: An interview with Lesbian Stonewall Veteran Stormé DeLarverie    https://www.afterellen.com/people/77167-an-interview-with-lesbian-stonewall-veteran-storm-delarverie#CrTYgkrmFOST1aEU.99 [2] Goethals, George (2004).  Encyclopedia of Leadership – Volume 1 . Thousand Oaks: Berkshire Publishing Group LLC. p. 1494 [3] 29 May 2014 Yardley, William Stormé DeLarverie, Early Leader in the Gay Rights Movement, Dies at 93    https://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/30/nyregion/storme-delarverie-early-leader-in-the-gay-rights-movement-dies-at-93.html?_r=0 [4] Huff Post Luce, James 07 Dec 2010 Gay Community’s Rosa Parks Faces Death, Impoverished and Alone   https://www.huffpost.com/entry/gay-communitys-rosa-parks_b_64374...

CBD: This is at variance with his/her own claim that s/he was actually there and played a pivotal role.

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The Events of the Night of Stonewall - analysed in detail Ref 56: Martin Duberman a lesbian and not in a good mood... Ref 57:  Eye-witness  1:  "fancy, go-to-bar drag for a butch dyke " Ref 58:  Eye-witness 2: Jennifer Hardy watching from Christoper Park (opposite Stonewall Inn) "...husky "bull-dyke", of a bigger size and with a "nasty temper"." Ref 59:  Eye-witness  3: Steve Yates watching from Christoper Park (opposite Stonewall Inn) remembered "a rather beefy, good-sized woman " and a "typical New York butch." Ref 60:  Eye-witness 4: a woman witness wrote to a friend "a dyke - stone butch" Page 150 Paragraph 2 Ref 61:  Eye-witness 5: Harry Beard "the lesbian's fight with the police had begun inside the bar..." Ref 62:   Eye-witnesses 5, 6 & 7: Harry Beard, Gene Huss & Don Knapp  it was a request to police to loosen t...

Background Clare B Dimyon MBE MSc (BEd) At London PRIDE 2018 (8 July) there was a lesbian protest in which a group of eight-ten women sat down at the front of the parade and prevented the parade moving off. These events became national and international news and the BBC report 8 July 2018 ' Pride in London sorry after anti-trans protest' contained a link to the London PRIDE statement and quote a number of people condemning this disruption as 'transphobic'. Included in the London PRIDE statement was a quote from the President of EuroPRIDE stating that "The Pride movement was started by trans-people..." EPOA: "The Pride movement was started by trans-people..." This was followed rather rapidly by a BBC report on 9 July indicating that Brighton PRIDE, in my own city, 'promises robust action after protests'   which interestingly repeated in exactly the same form as the EPOA statement, the claim that "The Pride movement was begun ...