Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBT Rights Uprising that Changed AmericaPenguin, 4 jun 2019 - 432 pagina's The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. “Martin Duberman is a national treasure.”—Masha Gessen, The New Yorker On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today. |
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... started to "mess around" with a friend of her mother's, a beautiful woman who looked like Lena Horne. Though Theo had a number of gay friends in her sophisticated circle, and though Yvonne had always felt able to confide in her mother ...
... started to "mess around" with a friend of her mother's, a beautiful woman who looked like Lena Horne. Though Theo had a number of gay friends in her sophisticated circle, and though Yvonne had always felt able to confide in her mother ...
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... a small child," Karla would later say, "that I was not going to grow up black like Nene. It never occurred to me that we were different. I did get some strange looks, though, after I started elementary school. I Gre owing U → 19.
... a small child," Karla would later say, "that I was not going to grow up black like Nene. It never occurred to me that we were different. I did get some strange looks, though, after I started elementary school. I Gre owing U → 19.
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... started elementary school. I sounded like the only black kid in an all-white school." Karla was also lucky in having a wonderful aunt (by marriage) living two houses away from the Jays in Flatbush. Aunt Betty, nicknamed Queenie, had ...
... started elementary school. I sounded like the only black kid in an all-white school." Karla was also lucky in having a wonderful aunt (by marriage) living two houses away from the Jays in Flatbush. Aunt Betty, nicknamed Queenie, had ...
Pagina 21
... started one, Karla, who was strong and knew it, usually finished it. Her Flatbush neighborhood was essentially middle-class Irish, Italian, and Jewish, but it grew rougher as she grew older, and by the time she was ten she had joined ...
... started one, Karla, who was strong and knew it, usually finished it. Her Flatbush neighborhood was essentially middle-class Irish, Italian, and Jewish, but it grew rougher as she grew older, and by the time she was ten she had joined ...
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... started goodnaturedly calling her Stitch. Most of her awkwardness was due to extreme nearsightedness that for along time went undiagnosed; if she bumped into a wall, her parents simply ascribed it to her being "the worst clod who ever ...
... started goodnaturedly calling her Stitch. Most of her awkwardness was due to extreme nearsightedness that for along time went undiagnosed; if she bumped into a wall, her parents simply ascribed it to her being "the worst clod who ever ...
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