Zazu Nova was a trans sex worker on the streets of Greenwich Village in the late 1960’s. She often referred to herself as the “Queen of Sex,” and she carried herself accordingly. [2]

2019年6月19日 · Nova was a transvestite (in the common lingo of the day) and a sex worker on the streets of Greenwich Village in 1969. Nova had given herself the title “Queen of Sex” and was known to carry herself as though she were actually royalty. Nova was a practicing Unitarian, and was said to be quite proud of having a religious upbringing.

2023年5月24日 · Zazu Nova, a Black transgender woman sex worker, was at Stonewall during the police altercation. “Nova joined the resistance outside the bar,” Manion says.

2019年6月19日 · Zazu Nova gave herself the title, the “Queen of Sex” and was a trans woman, sex worker, and political activist in Greenwich Village in 1969. She is purported to possibly be the first to throw the “first brick” at the Stonewall Uprising, according to eyewitness accounts, she was with Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera at the time.

2021年6月28日 · Of the night — the nights — that Greenwich Village rioted, Mr. Carter gives significant nods to Marsha P. Johnson, Zazu Nova and Jackie Hormona. (Marsha and Zazu indeed inhabited the drag/trans world. Hormona was one of the innumerable Village streets kids.) Carter does not, however, hand them pedestals or suggest honorary statuary.

2023年6月27日 · Zazu Nova may have been the one who threw the first brick at Stonewall (some say yes, some say no). She was a Black transgender woman, a sex worker, and an activist who fought for gay and trans rights.

Zazu Nova was a trans activist and sex worker who participated in the Stonewall Uprising, a dramatic, weeklong conflict between the LGBT community and police that erupted at the end of June 1969 in New York City’s Greenwich Village.

2020年11月25日 · Often erased from LGBTQ history, Zazu Nova was a transgender woman at the forefront of fights with police at Stonewall, and she continued to fight for gay and trans rights into the next decade.

Johnson has been named, along with Zazu Nova and Jackie Hormona, by a number of the Stonewall veterans interviewed by David Carter in his book, Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution, as being "three individuals known to have been in the vanguard" of the pushback against the police at the uprising. [7]

APA Format Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library. (1968 - 1975). Zazu Nova Retrieved from https://digitalcollections.nypl.org/items/510d47e3-57a3-a3d9-e040-e00a18064a99