Sylvia Rae Rivera may not even have been there...


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

Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Lillian Faderman: The Gay Revolution NY 2016

Image
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...
Read more

Stonewall Historian David Carter: Stonewall - from 'Riots' to Gay Revolution NY 2004

Image
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...
Read more

Stonewall & Stormé DeLarverie Links

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...
Read more