num_pages: 335
description: For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it with a foreword by Edmund White.Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction presented by The Publishing TriangleTor.com  Best Books of 2019 (So Far)Harpers Bazaar  The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019The Advocate  The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019June 28 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives The Stonewall Reader is a collection of first accounts diaries periodic literature and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Most importantly the anthology spotlights both iconic activists who were pivotal in the movement such as Sylvia Rivera co-founder of Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR) as well as forgotten figures like Ernestine Eckstein one of the few out African American lesbian activists in the 1960s. The anthology focuses on the events of 1969 the five years before and the five years after. Jason Baumann the NYPL coordinator of humanities and LGBTQ collections has edited and introduced the volume to coincide with the NYPL exhibition he has curated on the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation movement of 1969.
language: English
title: The Stonewall Reader
publisher: Penguin Classics