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The STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans
Association's ("S.R.V.A.") pre-parade, partial line-up
off Fifth Avenue is shown on Sunday, June 28, 1998. Pictured
above are (l-2-r):
Terri Van Dyke, S.R.V.A.
Treasurer (far left -- in all ways); Dave
West, S.R.V.A. Public
Relationist (wearing admiral hat); Cristina
Hayworth (up from San Juan,
Puerta Rica); S.R.V.A. Ambassadress (acting stoic and co-holding car
sign); Electra O'Mara (smiling
with hair pulled back and wearing glasses);
S.R.V.A. Recording Secretary; Toni
"La Putita Vieja" Polita, Back-of-the-Bus
Ride Committee (co-holding car sign); Stormé DeLarverie,
S.R.V.A. Vice-President (with rainbow military
helmet); Molly Bee
Aitken, S.R.V.A. Executive Committee (full-length black dress with
sunglasses on head); Willson
L. Henderson, S.R.V.A. President (standing
sideways and wearing hot white linen pants); Thomas
'Tom' Robert "TRS" Stevens,
S.R.V.A. General Secretary (right
rear, peering over headtops); and Les
Morgan, S.R.V.A. Executive
Committee (little guy in front of big TRS). Ray McCaffrey, S.R.V.A.
Financial Secretary, among
others, was with us, too -- he took this S.R.V.A. great group photo.
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| Enthusiastically pictured above in a festive snapshot segment
of
the STONEWALL Rebellion Veterans Association's parade contingency riding in
and walking with the magnificent metallic blue 1969 classic "Stonewall
Convertible" are (l-2-r): Dr. Amir
Kurt Qaharr (driving), Toni 'Barata Puta'
Polita (standing in car), Tom
'TRS' Stevens of
Fresh Meadows (his first
but not last Gay Pride parade and he is photographed rather red-faced, ducking down, sitting
so low off rear seat that he is partly on the floor), Cristina Santiago Hayworth
(proudly waving her Puerto Rican flag), Willson
Lee Henderson (wearing hot white linen pants and animated with
Supremes "Stop!" gesture), Electra Jane O'Mara
(standing outside the car) and Les
Morgan
(clapping back appreciatively at the applauding crowd). Obscured
from view is Terri Van Dyke
(riding 'shotgun' in the car's passenger seat). This is one of
the last photos
of the 1969 "Stonewall Convertible" with the custom, vinyl white lettering on
both sides of the car stating "STONEWALL Vets' Ass'n" before
automotive restoral the
following
year. Location of this photo is on Fifth Avenue just south
of 42nd Street
in front of the historic New York City Public Library. You can
see
Patience
the Lion (stoned) in the background with a Gay boy sitting on top of
her. Many other (somewhat tardy) Stonewall veterans joined us for the Gay Pride Parade. Our special S.R.V.A. guest of honor was former U.S. Congresswoman Geraldine A. Ferraro, who is a 1998 U.S. Senate candidate from New York. The ole Gay grandmother Rev. Magora Elmira Kennedy, the colorfully flamboyant S.R.V.A. Chaplain, performed the special "Stonewall Prayer", as she does every year, when the S.R.V.A. parade contingency stops in front of The STONEWALL Club on Christopher Street along the parade route. The S.R.V.A. also does its annual photo-op in front of the place "where it all started" -- thanks to the Stonewall vetz! Every year the number of Stonewall Veterans is less and the significance is more! |
7th September
2025
56th Anniversary Year of the S.R.V.A.
For current and upcoming happenings of the S.R.V.A., visit:
Https://www.StonewallVets.org/upcomingevents.htm
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