NEW YORK (AP) — A woman whose activist life included taking part in the Stonewall riots that started the gay rights movement in the United States has died. Storme DeLarverie was 93.
Her longtime friend Lisa Cannistraci says DeLarverie died Saturday morning at a nursing home in Brooklyn where she had been living.
DeLarverie was born in New Orleans to a black mother and white father in 1920. In the 1950s, she was part of the Jewel Box Revue, a traveling drag show.
In June 1969, she was among those who fought back against a police raid at a bar in Greenwich Village called the Stonewall.
Cannistraci described her as someone who “just lived to be of service.”
DeLarverie has no survivors.
A funeral service is planned for Thursday night.
