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.

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