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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I've been spending an inordinate amount of time thinking about the cornucopia in the fruit of the loom logo and I'm convinced that the cornucopia version of the logo was actually a knockoff version of the logo, the only thing that stops me from fully accepting this theory as fact is that there's so little direct proof of it. First, people claim that they bought FotL underwear from walmart exclusively, that's easy, there's a couple of lawsuits settled during the late 90s involving nike v walmart and hilfigher v walmart regarding walmart stocking knockoff merch on their shelves, so they have indeed sold fake clothing on retail stores, but there's no lawsuit between fruit of the loom and walmart. there's also a trademark patent that explicitly references the cornucopia and I'm pretty sure it was added to the patent BECAUSE of the knockoff logo, and additionally I'm sure they're so quick to deny the cornucopia partly because it brings them publicity but also because they can't officially recognize the knockoff logo as part of their corporate identity. Further no physical proof can even be manifested because cotton underwear just doesn't last very long, cotton wear literally rots in landfills in less than 5 years. And I'm not sure if it's even related (though the timeline seems at least suspicious) but stockholders for the FotL company were inflating the value of their stock, they were sued and then they filed for chapter 11 during the late 90s but I dunno if these things are connected to the cornucopia. Maybe it's all a scheme to sell cheapo underwear manufactured in the third world while recognizing no direct ties to third world sweatshops? Too convoluted, I dunno. It's real though, it appears very frequently on pop culture parodies, so there's really no chance it was never there.
Fruit of the loom owns fruit.com. What the fuck.
We live in the stupidest time line. Chiquita bananas owning Fruit .com would be better. Gay porn would be better. Why the fuck does an underwear brand own Fruit .com?