She was bleeding from a head wound as she fought back. Described by a witness as "a typical New York City butch" and "a dyke- stone butch," she had been hit on the head by an officer with a baton for, as one witness stated, announcing that her handcuffs were too tight. She fought with at least four of the police, swearing and shouting, for about ten minutes. She was brought through the crowd by police several times, as she escaped repeatedly. Stonewall uprising Īt the Stonewall rebellion, a scuffle broke out when a woman in handcuffs, who may have been Stormé, was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon. According to friend Lisa Cannistraci, DeLarverie carried a photograph of Diana with her at all times. Her partner, a dancer named Diana, lived with her for about 25 years until dying in the 1970s. She was picked up twice on the streets by police who mistook her for a drag queen. īiracial and androgynous, she could pass for white or Black, male or female. She realized she was lesbian near the age of eighteen. She stopped riding horses after being injured in a fall. For being a negro with a white face." She rode jumping horses with the Ringling Brothers Circus when she was a teenager. "The white kids were beating me up the Black kids were. As a biracial child, DeLarverie faced bullying and harassment from the other children.
Her father paid for her education, and she was largely raised by her grandfather. She celebrated her birthday on December 24, Christmas Eve. According to DeLarverie, she was never given a birth certificate and was not certain of her actual date of birth. Her mother was African American and worked as a servant for his family. DeLarverie's father was white and wealthy.
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