Clare Dimyon

Clare B Dimyon MBE is a British advocate for LGBT rights.[1] As a Quaker, Dimyon has campaigned for peace and human rights since 1984 when she attended Greenham Common to protest against Cruise missiles aimed at the then Soviet Union and the Soviet-occupied countries of central & eastern Europe.

Clare B Dimyon

MBE
Clare Dimyon at Bratislava Rainbow Pride 2010
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Educator and Broadcaster
Known forLGBT Advocacy

In 2010 she was awarded the Member of the Order of the British Empire for "services to promoting the rights (the citation missed "& responsibilities" she always advocated) of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people in central and eastern Europe".[2]

In 2016, Dimyon spoke to the press about her experience as a survivor of a violent life-threatening sexual assault in 1984, which occurred at Greenham Common [3] in support of a 14 year old who was abducted and raped in Oxford.[4][5]

Dimyon first created a purple banner proclaiming that “everyone knows a Black lesbian, Stormé, started Stonewall.”[6][7] She first took it to Brighton Pride & Manchester Pride in the UK. The banner has since travelled to marches and protests across the United Kingdom and Europe and appeared in the 50th Pride parade in NYC. NY Pride didn't seem to be doing the vital countdown so Clare started it at 1:17am so that everyone in the square could hear. That meant the exact moment of 50 years since the NYC cops raided the Stonewall Inn was marked. Then a spontaneous parade was held in the square in front of the Stonewall Inn and was the best bit of NYC PRIDE 2019.

A parade banner that says "Everybody knows black lesbian female homosexual Stormé started Stonewall," Europride 2019, Vienna, Austria
A parade banner that says "Everybody knows black lesbian female homosexual Stormé started Stonewall," Europride 2019, Vienna, Austria

References
  1. Hellen, Nicholas (8 December 2019). "Patient branded transphobic after asking for female medic". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 25 November 2022.
  2. "Lesbian activist awarded MBE". Pink News. 3 November 2010.
  3. https://www.objectnow.org/s/3_The-Day-I-taught-a-man-Consent-while-he-was-Raping-me_19-Apr-84-1.pdf%5B%5D
  4. "Oxford abduction: Rape survivor reads 14-year-old victim's letter". BBC News. 12 October 2016.
  5. Dimyon, Clare (9 October 2016). "To the abducted schoolgirl in Oxford, here are some thoughts from a teacher who is a rape survivor". The Independent. Retrieved 9 June 2017.
  6. "Stormé DeLarverie", Wikipedia, 29 August 2022, retrieved 25 November 2022
  7. Heuchan, Claire (12 June 2019). "The Craftivism of Clare Dimyon: Celebrating Stormé". AfterEllen. Retrieved 25 November 2022.


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