https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfHnzYEHAow



As we bask in our post Pride glow, it’s probably good to remember Storme DeLarverie . She will turn 90 this upcoming December, suffers from dementia, and was on the front line of the Stonewall riot. DeLarverie, also known as drag king performer M.C., missed this year’s parade as she sat in a nursing home room.

There is some dispute if DeLarverie was the cross dressing lesbian attacked by the police, the spark for the riot. However, all agree she was there fighting along with everyone else when they had enough of police mistreatment.

DeLarverie’s friends see her situation as doubly tragic. There is her inability to take care of herself (this past March she was found disoriented in her Chelsea Hotel room). Secondly no one knows her, or why she is an important historical figure.

“The young gays and lesbians today have never heard of her,” said Lisa Cannistraci, a longtime friend, “and most of our activists are young. They’re in their 20s and early 30s. The community that’s familiar with her is dwindling.”
"The Impossible Dream"
from MAN OF LA MANCHA (1972)
music by Mitch Leigh and lyrics by Joe Darion

Click here "The Impossible Dream" (a .MP3 file courtesy MGM).
To dream the impossible dream
To fight the unbeatable foe
To bear with unbearable sorrow
To run where the brave dare not go

To right the unrightable wrong
To love pure and chaste from afar
To try when your arms are too weary
To reach the unreachable star

This is my quest
To follow that star
No matter how hopeless
No matter how far

To fight for the right
Without question or pause
To be willing to march into Hell
For a heavenly cause

And I know if I'll only be true
To this glorious quest
That my heart will lie peaceful and calm
When I'm laid to my rest

And the world will be better for this
That one man, scorned and covered with scars
Still strove with his last ounce of courage
To reach the unreachable star