num_pages: 352
description: "Riveting...Not only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston GlobeIn 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff of legend, with relatively little hard information available on the riots themselves. Now, based on hundreds of interviews, an exhaustive search of public and previously sealed files, and over a decade of intensive research into the history and the topic, Stonewall brings this singular event to vivid life in this, the definitive story of one of history's most singular events.
language: English
title: Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
titlecomplete: Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
genres: Politics, Historical, New York, Sexuality, LGBT, Queer, Gay, American History, Nonfiction, History
ratings_count: 1178
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Randy Shilts Award
category: Gay Nonfiction
publisher: St. Martin's Griffin