On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important
moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced,
recorded, and reacted to it. June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The
New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing
practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and
transphobia, raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in
the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of
responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing
period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a
riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community,
followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein
presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall.
Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and
LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions,
political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and
photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal
moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not
construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich
Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple
truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the
conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.
Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick
(or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to
take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has
stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance,
courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives
of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in
the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the
mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed
to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed
to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots
provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.
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