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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So, obi wan was a bit of a late bloomer in getting trained and Yoda told him if he didn’t get a master by age 13 he’d have to go do agricultural labor for the rest of his life. Looked a bit more at wookiepedia and this was standard jedi procedure! if some creep didn’t want to groom you before age 13 you had to be an unpaid serf. How many children were taken from their homes only to become literal fucking jedi slaves?
I will once again re-state my opinion that the deconstructed the whole ass jedi order having never actually constructed it in the first place and it sucked. “Want to learn about the cool mystic peace guys who taught Luke? Yeah, actually they were all complete assholes who fucked up everything. Fuck your childhood. Also they used literatal child soldiers for no reason.”
Like we never had anything to go on before tpm, we just knew the jedi must be really cool from Obiwan and Yoda, and then Lucas is just like “lol they were uselss assholes”
Yeah, there was no reason at all for it to be that weird. Flawed and out of touch, sure. But not this weird. Lucas knew his Kung fu movies, there are fading Dojo archetypes here.
Literally all biological characters of all factions are slavers in Star Wars even the ones who are, themselves, actual slaves.
Never addressing the “Droids are literally people and are enslaved” is bad and idk how they’ve kept it up for 40 years.
It’s actually even worse than that. They did finally address it in Solo: A Star Wars Story with a droid named L3-37 and it’s played as a joke. Everyone mocks her ambitions of freedom and her attempt at a slave revolt gets all the revolting droid slaves killed including her and only serves as a convenient distraction for the biological characters.
Well. That’s awful. : (