American drag performer and activist Stormé DeLarverie was BOTD in 1920. Born in New Orleans, Louisiana, their mother was Black who had a child with her white employer. DeLarverie’s education was paid for by their father and was raised by their maternal grandfather. Their biracial identity prompted extensive bullying throughout their childhood. As a teenager, they frequently wore men’s clothes, leading to trouble with the police for breaching cross-dressing laws. In 1955, Delarverie joined the Black theatre circuit, becoming Master of Ceremonies of the Jewel Box Review, a racially-integrated drag show, performing to mixed-raced audiences at the Apollo Theatre and Radio City Music Hall. Identifying neither as male nor female but presenting publicly as a Black man, DeLarverie lived with her partner Diana for 25 years. They are thought to be among the queer and trans crowd who led the Stonewall Riots in 1969, protesting against police harassment. Later in life, they worked as a street patrol worker in Greenwich Village, earning the nickname “the Rosa Parks of the gay community”. Their life and work was profiled in the 1987 documentary Stormé: The Lady of the Jewel Box, leading to several awards by New York civil rights groups. They died in 2014, aged 93.