Both Jeremy Corbyn and Labour's official twitter account have tweeted the lie that the Stonewall riots were started by "two trans women of colour"
AfterEllen article By Grace Chu:
'From the Archives: An interview with Lesbian Stonewall Veteran Stormé DeLarverie'
(extract)
"Some have referred to her as “the Gay Community’s Rosa Parks.” She fought the police during the Stonewall Rebellion in 1969 and has been identified by many – and has identified herself – as the legendary “Stonewall Lesbian” whose assault by the police became the pivotal moment in the street disturbances that spurred the crowd to action. (continues)
She first realized that she was gay when she was around 18, she said. She recalled the day when the vague and nebulous feelings of being somehow different from everyone else finally crystallized into something definitive. “One day, I woke up and went, ‘oh!'” she said, her hand motioning to an imaginary light bulb above her head. I remarked that the late 1930s and early 1940s were probably not good times for gay people, that there was no such thing as a gay identity, and there probably wasn’t even a word for being gay.
She said, “Oh yes there was. The word was ‘queer.’ That’s what they called us.” The word was used as a slur." (continues)
She was identified as the Stonewall Lesbian in Charles Kaiser’s book The Gay Metropolis, and her scuffle with the police has been mentioned a few times in passing by The New York Times in the past couple of decades. Then in the January 2008 issue of Curve Magazine she identified herself as the Stonewall Lesbian in a detailed interview with writer Patrick Hinds, an excerpt of which is below:
”[The officer] then yelled, ‘I said, move along, faggot.’ I think he thought I was a boy. When I refused, he raised his nightstick and clubbed me in the face.” It was then that the crowd surged and started attacking the police with whatever they could find, she said.
I asked my last question hesitantly. “Have you heard of the Stonewall Lesbian? The woman who was clubbed outside the bar but was never identified?” DeLarverie nodded, rubbing her chin in the place where she received 14 stitches after the beating. “Yes,” she said quietly. “They were talking about me.”
And then, almost as an afterthought, I asked, “Why did you never come forward to take credit for what you did?”
She thought for a couple of seconds before she answered, “Because it was never anybody’s business.” (continues)
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