NYT reports 89-year-old lesbian struggling to recall her lead at 1969 Stonewall riots
”He wound up flat on his back on the ground. I don’t know what he hit me with. He hit me from behind, the coward.”
Storme DeLarverie, 89, a member of Stonewall Veterans, who is in a nursing home and combating dementia. It is reported that an attack by police on DeLaverie may have been the catalyst that started the original Stonewall bar riots in 1969. That violent event is seen by many as the key launching point for today’s worldwide gay rights movement. (New York Times)
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