Stonewall : the definitive story of the LGBTQ rights uprising that changed America
Martin B. Duberman (Author)
The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering-- the usual reaction to a police raid-- the patrons inside Stonewall and the crowd that gathered outside the bar fought back against the police. The five days of rioting that followed changed forever the face of lesbian and gay life. In the years since 1969, the Stonewall riots have become the central symbolic event of the modern gay movement. Renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of what happened at Stonewall, focusing on the lives of six people involved in the struggle for LGBTQ rights, and recreating in vivid detail those heady, sweltering nights in June 1969, revealing a wealth of previously unknown material
Print Book, English, 2019
First revised Plume trade paperback edition View all formats and editions
Plume, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [New York], 2019
History
xxx, 399 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, portraits ; 21 cm
9780593083987, 9780525936022, 0593083989, 0525936025
1083706879
Growing up
Young adulthood
The early sixties
The mid-sixties
The late sixties
1969
Post-Stonewall: 1969-70
Epilogue: 2019
"With a new introduction by the author"--Cover