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From the age of 17, Nancy Valverde was repeatedly arrested by the Los Angeles police department for wearing masculine clothing. By the time she died, at age 92, the city had named a square in her honor, its first public monument to a lesbian.

The Chicana butch lesbian who defied the LAPD – and won: ‘I couldn’t be someone else’www.theguardian.com Decades after Nancy Valverde was first arrested for wearing masculine clothing, the city of LA finally honored her with its first public monument to a lesbian