Stormé DeLarverie, born on December 24th in 1920, was a biracial queer icon whose reported scuffle with police was the spark that ignited the Stonewall Riots in 1969. She is sometimes referred to as the “Rosa Parks of the gay community” or “Rosa Parks of Stonewall”.
DeLarverie was born in New Orleans to a black mother and a white father, and spent the 50s and 60s as a “male impersonator” in the Jewel Box Revue, the period’s only racially integrated drag troupe. Her gender-bending style of zoot suits and black ties was groundbreaking for the era.
On June 28th, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village, New York City, a scuffle broke out when a woman, believed to be Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. The woman fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. When she shouted to the bystanders “Why don’t you guys do something?”, the crowd began rioting and clashed with police.
“It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience - it wasn’t no damn riot.”
- Stormé DeLarverie
A Brief History of Stormé DeLarverie, Stonewall’s Suiting Icon
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you ever read a book so bad it makes you angry. fuck you Taylor Jenkins Reid.
honestly some of the worst poc characters ive ever read.
The intro to League Of Extraordiary Gentlemen is racist in that mid 20th century European comic way (Honestly its almost as bad as Tintin) and nobody told me and everybody told me how amazing the author was.
im shooting lasers out of my eyes at everyone who hyped this trash on booktok, i hate book tok, they love fan fiction quality books, they are RUINING the publishing industry now only trash and smut get made and promoted.
Booktok has the same problems as book tumblrs of yesteryear had, demographics mainly skewing white and young being one of the big ones, and the other being a reference frame limited by and to high school and college literature recommendations.
i honestly prefer young and new adult books, i just want good ones. i read so much boring theory i NEED sword fights, and love triangles, and magic, and all my favorite tropes of the genre but like these books are getting worse, even the same authors are now just putting out smutty trash when they use to write semi decent books. (i am not against sex in books but there need to be a goddamn plot and all these readers just want porn which is fine but market it as a porn book not as a fantasy). anyway in gonna FINALLY finish Reaper at the Gates (its so good im too scared to finish the book because it will then be over) its a good YA book about imperialism, and middle eastern mythology and love triangles (well a love square). i just need ti find some trusted reviewers.
Honestly in my experience there’s been a lot of good genre fiction released these last couple of years. P Djeli Clark released both Ring Shout a book about black demon hunters hunting down the KKK and a bunch of stuff about magical Egyptian wizard detectives in his Dead Djinn series.
And How To Lose The Time War is one of the most touching romance and time travel stories I’ve ever read and it’s interspersed with cyberpunk violence.
writing all of these recs down, never heard of P Djeli Clark, but those series look perfect for me, especially the Dead Djinn ones! i actually have How to loose the time war on my TBR pile! ill bump it to the top thanks!
I don’t read anything from booktok but sometimes I get recommendations from it that are just porn. Someone will just be acting out a sex scene from their favourite porn book. Which like, fine, write erotica, I don’t have a problem with it, but don’t pretend it’s something it’s not
yes exactly! i like smut i write it myself but im not out here presenting it like its a real book with a plot and character archs.