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By: New York Public Library - editor, Edmund White - introduction
Narrated by: Various
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"...a remarkable audio experience that emphasizes the revolutionary power of LGBTQ voices and provides an invaluable record of a community that refuses to be silenced." -AudioFile magazine Earphones Award winner

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.

*Includes a PDF of the list of stories and narrators as well as permissions credits.

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This book was required for a class I’m currently taking. I am Stunned. It is so heart breaking and endearing at the same time. If you have no prior knowledge to any Queer history I recommend it 100%. In the audio book you get to hear the real interviews. A book has never made me sob this much, and feel so seen.

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I liked having different readers. Sometimes history can be dry but not this. A must for those born after the 80s. The violence and negativity piled on trans, gays and lesbians in America has been abhorrent. It was a wonder that the movement didn't happen sooner.

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Loved it. The politics, the emotions, the true struggles of that time in history which has given birth to this place in time.

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