According to legend, it was a piece of brick hurled at police officers outside of the Stonewall Inn that sparked the historic uprising, and with it the LGBTQ+ rights movement. In the early hours of June 28, 1969, police had raided the New York City bar, harassing and assaulting some 200 queer folk including Stormé DeLarverie, a mixed race butch lesbian. As DeLarverie was being bundled violently into the back of a police car, she is said to have asked “Aren’t you going to do something?” Did Marsha P Johnson or Sylvia Rivera throw the first brick? Two trans women of colour, Marsha P Johnson and Sylvia Rivera, are names often associated with the first brick thrown at Stonewall, and were both at the forefront of the LGBTQ+ rights movement that was born from the riot. But neither woman ever took credit for this, or even acknowledged that a brick was thrown. Johnson denied that she was even present when rioting broke out, explaining in the 1970s that she didn’t arrive until 2am, when “...