Observances - 2019
Pride Month 2019
50th Anniversary of Stonewall
June 28, 2019 marks the 50th anniversary of the events at Stonewall. Read Teaching Tolerance's piece about what happened at Stonewall, why it matters, and why it is important to note that while Stonewall is often cited as the start - of Pride, of LGBTQ+ activism, of the community's fight for civil rights - "Stonewall wasn’t a beginning. It was a culmination."
Online Resources
Stonewall Forever Created in collaboration with the National Park Service to extend "the reach of Stonewall National Monument beyond its physical location," this web site provides personal accounts and memorabilia to "tell the diverse stories of the Stonewall Riots of 1969 and the surrounding years of activism from 1968-1971."
An Amazing 1969 Account of the Stonewall Uprising
The Night the Stonewall Inn Became a Proud Shrine NYT article published on the 50th anniversary recounts the events of June 27, 1969. (Current SJR State students, faculty & staff can get free, unlimited access to the New York Times - here's how to register.)
When Resistance Became Too Loud to Ignore This NYT article discussing current exhibits that "celebrate Stonewall and the movement’s charismatic personalities" provides links to those exhibits, related NYT articles, and informative sites about the "personalities," organizations, and events surrounding Stonewall. (Current SJR State students, faculty & staff can get free, unlimited access to the New York Times - here's how to register.)
"Wrong, plain and simple": NYPD apologizes for raid that led to Stonewall riots The apology was issued on June 6, 2019.
American Experience: Stonewall Uprising from PBS is currently streaming for free:
Books at the SJR State Library about Stonewall
Books may be checked out by community patrons as well as SJR State students faculty and staff. If a title is located at another campus, the book may be sent to another campus upon request.
Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution by Call Number: Palatka Circulation -- HQ76.8.U5 C37 2010ISBN: 9780312671938Publication Date: 2010-05-25"In June of 1969, a series of riots over police action at The Stonewall Inn, a small, dank, mob-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, New York changed the longtime landscape of homosexuals in society, literally overnight. These riots are widely acknowledged as the 'first shot' that ushered in a previously unimagined era of openness, political action, and massive social change. Coming during a time when lesbians and gays were routinely closeted and in fear of losing their jobs, their apartments, their families and even their freedom, these riots - barely covered in the media at the time - were the spark that led to a new militancy and openness in the gay political movement. The name "Stonewall" has itself become almost synonymous with the struggle for gay rights and yet there has been relatively little hard information generally available about the riots themselves. For the first time, David Carter provides an in-depth account of those riots as well as a complete background of the bar, the area in which the riots occurred, the social, political, and legal climate that led up to those events. He also dispels many of the accumulated myths, provides previously unknown facts, and new insight into what is the most significant rebellion against the status quo until the tearing down of the Berlin Wall. Based on over a decade of research, hundreds of interviews, and an exhaustive search of public and private records, Stonewall is the story of one of modern history's most singular events."--Jacket of 1st ed.
Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution by Call Number: St. Augustine Circulation -- HQ76 .C315 2005ISBN: 0312342691Publication Date: 2005-06-01
The Stonewall Reader by Call Number: Palatka and Orange Park -- HQ76.8.U5 S77 2019ISBN: 9780143133513Publication Date: 2019-04-30"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.
Stonewall by Call Number: Palatka and St. Augustine -- HQ76.8.U5 D85 1994ISBN: 0452272068Publication Date: 1994-05-01
Gay Power: an American revolution by Call Number: Palatka Circulation -- HQ76.8.U5 E47 2006ISBN: 9780786716333Publication Date: 2006-05-31" The explosion of gay visibility following the street riots at the Stonewall Inn in 1969 brought, for the first time, tens of thousands of lesbians and gay men out of the closets and into headline news around the world. Never before had so many gay people at one moment stepped into the spotlight of mainstream American politics, culture, and entertainment. More than any city, New York became overnight the center of the new "Gay Power" movement and served as the focal point for gay protest and politics for the next decade. This book chronicles the tumultuous first wave of the modern gay rights movement. From the first-ever gay student group launched at Columbia University in 1965 to the Gay Liberation Front, the Gay Activist Alliance, and other vanguard organizations that emerged from the Stonewall riots, the author draws on archival material and numerous firsthand accounts from the individuals who built the movement. Unlike their predecessors, this new generation of lesbians and gay men spoke as a community, established political clout, appeared openly on television and in the press, demanded equal rights with heterosexuals, and pioneered protest tactics like the "zap," which later ACT UP employed famously in the 1980s." - publisher
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Published: 9/2019
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