ABSTRACT This essay animates witnessing as method to engage the performance historicity constellating the photographic archive of Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014). The archive resists historical white representations of queer activism prior to and during the Stonewall rebellion by telling the story of a Black butch lesbian drag king, Stormé DeLarverie, whose archival presence glimmers with queer acts of resistance and wondrous aesthetic performance. By witnessing DeLarverie’s queer life and drag career in the shadows of diasporic struggle and anti-queer and anti-Black state brutality, I provide an analysis of how queer embodied history may become witnessed and preserved through vernacular photographic aesthetics.

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见证档案：Stormé DeLarverie 和酷儿表演历史*

摘要 本文将见证动画化，作为参与构成 Stormé DeLarverie (1920–2014) 摄影档案的表演历史性的方法。该档案通过讲述黑人女同性恋变装王 Stormé DeLarverie 的故事来抵制石墙叛乱之前和期间的同性恋激进主义的历史白人表现，她的档案存在闪烁着奇怪的抵抗行为和奇妙的美学表现。通过在散居斗争和反酷儿和反黑人国家暴行的阴影下目睹 DeLarverie 的酷儿生活和变装生涯，我分析了酷儿体现的历史如何通过本土摄影美学被见证和保存。