{"product_id":"the-stonewall-riots-a-documentary-history-9781479816859","title":"The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eOn the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history--depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eJune 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. 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAcross 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In \u003ci\u003eThe Stonewall Riots\u003c\/i\u003e, Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows multiple truths to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePublished on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, \u003ci\u003eThe Stonewall Riots\u003c\/i\u003e allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, \u003ci\u003eThe Stonewall Riots\u003c\/i\u003e provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eMarc Stein\u003c\/b\u003e is the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University. He is the author of \u003ci\u003eRethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement\u003c\/i\u003e (2012), \u003ci\u003eSexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe \u003c\/i\u003e(2010), and \u003ci\u003eCity of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia\u003c\/i\u003e (2000), and the editor of the \u003ci\u003eEncyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America\u003c\/i\u003e (2003).\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"New York University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50492610642194,"sku":"9781479816859","price":40.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_023a4bd0-9d47-4700-a4ba-5dc25447d846.jpg?v=1730599310","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-stonewall-riots-a-documentary-history-9781479816859","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}