02658cam a2200361 i 4500 603044441 TxAuBib 20220822120000.0 181214s2019||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2018047510 9780143133513 paperback $18.00 0143133519 paperback $18.00 (OCoLC)1099546916 TxAuBib rda The Stonewall Reader / The New York Public Library ; foreword by Edmund White ; edited with an introduction by Jason Baumann. [New York] : Penguin Books, 2019. ©2019. xxv, 304 pages : illustrations ; 20 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Penguin classics, The Includes bibliographical references (pages xxiii-xxv, 296-298). "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. June 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"-- Provided by publisher. 20220822. Gay liberation movement United States History. Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969. HISTORY / Social History. Baumann, Jason,. White, Edmund, 1940-, writer of foreword. New York Public Library. The Penguin classics.