The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Stein Marc
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Stein Marc On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history-depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and…
Specifikacia The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Stein Marc
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Stein Marc
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. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state 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.