CW for more "discourse".

The exclusionists on the twittersphere are constantly invalidating lesbians based on pronoun usage. Their favourite "go to" is to take shots at Stormé DeLarverie who was a black cis lesbian who used pronouns INTERCHANGEABLY throughout life. (Thread)

1) Stormé DeLarverie was present at the Stonewall riot. She played a pivotal role that night, by punching a cop who tried to arrest her. Was it the 1st punch? We can't be sure but it was A punch that folks remember.

2) Exclusionsts love to argue that Stormé was never a he/him...

pronoun using lesbian. They are WRONG. Stormé was very much a he/him & She/Her pronoun using lesbian throughout life. Real life friends of Stormé used "He/Him" for Stormé. Real life friends of Stormé who founded the Stonewall Veterans Association, in which Stormé was a member...

of the executive committee from 1969 to 2014, have a website that they created, with accounts of Stormé's life where they refer to Stormé as HE throughout.

Site link: http://www.stonewallvets.org/StormeDeLarverie.htm

There are more sources on the SVA website. Again, these are real life friends of Stormé who knew Stormé well. They're not a bunch of strangers, running around the internet yelling about someone they have never met. They are people who knew Stormé personally.

I wrote another thread about Stormé that often gets used when the exclusionists decide to invalidate he/him lesbians by attacking Stormé's pronoun usage here: https://twitter.com/BellaRizinti/status/1268137424724557824

"We want proof that Stormé used he/him pronouns!" cry the exclusionists. William Henderson,the founder of the SVA who knew Stromé personally, gave an interview here along with Stormé's longtime friend Lisa Cannistraci: https://www.wnyc.org/story/gay-rights-activist-and-stonewall-rebel-dies-93/

Lisa (longtime friend of Stormé) Cannistraci says Stormé was comfortable being referred to as either gender. Henderson, who befriended Stormé after the Stonewall Rebellion, said Stormé preferred being called by male pronouns. These are FIRST HAND ACCOUNTS from Stormé's real...

life friends. Not random conjecture on the internet from people who never met Stormé.

Stormé also gave Leslie Feinberg an interview for the 1996 edition of Transgender Warriors. Stormé clearly states that She/He was 100% ok with either set of pronouns. This backs up the FACT...

that Stormé used both sets of pronouns. Had no issue with He/Him or She/Her. Again, refer to the SVA website where you'll see Stormé referred to as HE throughout by real life friends who knew Stormé personally. Stormé's use of he/him pronouns and folks addressing Stormé as ...

He/Him persisted long after Stormé was done with drag. It was a LIFETIME of using pronouns interchangeably. Was Stormé exclusively a he/him lesbian? NO. Was Stormé a he/him lesbian? YES. Stormé was also a she/her lesbian. Both are correct.

You cannot invalidate he/him lesbians.

You can't use Stormé to invalidate he/him lesbians since Stormé was well know to use he/him pronouns throughout life. If you attempt to erase this part of Stormé's identity, you are literally erasing lesbian identity and disrespecting one of most respected lesbian elders.

Exclusionsts do NOT like queer history. Especially when it doesn't back up their lesbian erasure. He/Him lesbians have been and always will be present and valid members of lesbian community & culture. Hell, the L Word even touches on this. He/Him lesbians EXIST and you should...

damn well respect that. Respect them. They aren't going away just because some exclusionists are yelling about them on the internet.

They/Them lesbians... ALSO VALID and still lesbians.

Get a better hobby exclusionists.

1 final point. Stormé was a gnc lesbian.

It's NOT unreasonable to DISCUSS the POSSIBILITY that if Stormé were alive today, that she/he MIGHT consider her/him - self non-binary.

We will never know because Stormé is no longer with us to speak on this.

Discussing the POSSIBILTY

that he/she MIGHT have identified as non-binary is not heresy. Please stop having fits at trans folks 4 this. I've often wondered (as a cis lesbian) if this would b the case. Since we don't know & never will, Stromé will remain a cis gnc lesbian 2 me. That doesn't make me right.

There's literally not a single day when this "discourse" doesn't appear in my mentions.

I am BEGGING exlusionists to read queer history.

You're all fucking exhausting in your WRONGNESS.