![portrait of Stormé DeLarverie](http://thevelvetchronicle.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/Lesbian_history_Storme_DeLarverie_screenshot.jpg)
Open Letter & Petition: NYC, Stormé DeLarverie deserves a monument.
On June 28, 1969, a cop hit Stormé DeLarverie on the head with a billy club. She was bleeding from that wound when she threw the first punch, at Stonewall—“The cop hit me, and I hit him back.”
She started a Revolution.