Hello and welcome to Queer As Fact, the podcast bringing you queer history from around the world and throughout time.

I'm Alice.

I'm Irene.

I'm Eli.

And today we're talking about the drag king and queer activist Stormy DeLovie.

Before we begin, I have some content warnings for this episode.

We'll be talking about racism, including segregation in the USA, and racially motivated violence,

including specifically targeting mixed race people.

We'll also be discussing periodypical homophobia and more broadly queer phobia.

There will also be the use of some potentially homophobic language in quotes, although not

used predominantly specifically within these quotes, mentions of guns and knives, discussions

of neglect within the age care system and mentions of dementia.

If any of that sounds like something you don't want to hear, feel free just skip this

episode and check out any of our other content.

How in detail about the dementia content, do you go?

Like, basically, I'm just going to say, they have dementia.

Like, it's not a big part of the episode.

Yeah.

I'd also like to note a couple of other things before we begin. One is that I'm going to be using they-them pronouns for

Stormy in this episode and we'll discuss this decision later on and you can tell me your thoughts on it.

I also want to add that regardless of what pronouns I choose or anyone else chooses, Stormy has

said themselves that they identify as a woman. Okay. I look forward to this. Yeah. I'm going to discuss the

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