Storme DeLarverie

DeLarverie sparked the Stonewall Riot late in June 1969 after she retaliated against an abusive police officer outside the bar. She stated, "Stonewall was just the flip side of the black revolt when Rosa Parks took a stand. I knew sooner or later people were going to get the same attitude that I had. They had just pushed once too often."

Storme DeLarverie toured the black theater circuit in the 1950s and 60s as the only male impersonator of the Jewel Box Revue, America's first integrated female impersonation production. DeLarverie's act attracted mixed mainstream audiences from the 1940s through the 60s, a time noted for bigotry and segregation.