Stormé DeLarverie: The Lesbian who Sparked a Revolution

Although the Stonewall Riot was not the first resistance against police brutality by the LGBTQ+ community, it was one of the most prominent and sparked the Gay Rights Revolution. One of the key but forgotten figures of Stonewall was Stormé DeLarverie. A butch lesbian from Louisiana she faced misogyny, racism, and homophobia throughout her life.

Happy Pride: Celebrating Pride with the Past, Present, and Future podcast

As I am writing it is the anniversary of the Stonewall Riot which, in 1969, sparked the Gay Rights Movement. My close friend Josh Minster has got his own fantastic podcast called Past, Present, and Future (which is where I got the title of this blog from); and together we talked about the Past, Present,

New York and the LGBTQ+ Community over a Century

This article was first published by Retrospect Journal on 09/02/2020, which you can read here. The anonymity of big cities allows persecuted sub-cultures and identities to find room to exist. London, Berlin, and Paris are just three examples of cities with flourishing LGBTQ+ communities, and in the United States New York was one of the

History in Focus: The Stonewall Riots

The only photo actually taken during the Stonewall Riots Gay Pride this year has become very important – not only due to the rising bigotry against LGBTQ+ communities across the world in recent years – but also due to it being the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. On June 28 1969 police raided the