Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution
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| Rating | : | 4.83 (846 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0312671938 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 352 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-28 |
| Language | : | English |
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The Definitive History of the Spark to Gay Rights Rob Hardy In the old days (and some would insist they were the good old days) homosexuals were subject to dismissal just because of sexual preference. Sexual acts between members of the same sex were specifically illegal, and cops would bait homosexuals to see if they were interested in such acts. Professionals who were found to be homosexuals lost their licenses. Homosexuality was a d. "A Definitive Account of the Stonewall Riots" according to Robert in NY. The so-called Stonewall riots occurred over a period of a week, perhaps ignited in part by the June 28 police raid having been the second in the same week. (The first was on a Tuesday night).Although I was present that night, and on many of the following nights, I was until last week not aware of this book's existence. Frankly, almost every account I had read previously was m. Amazon Customer said Very Enlightening. As an out, married, 55 year old gay man, I only remember hearing about Stonewall. I am grateful for the efforts of the many that put their lives on the line during those hot, summer nights in 1969. My prayer is that one day this essential part of not merely LGBTQ history, but our country's history, becomes inherent in the history curricula that are taught our young people nat
A Randy Shilts / Publishing Triangle Award Finalist"RivetingNot only the definitive examination of the riots but an absorbing history of pre-Stonewall America, and how the oppression and pent-up rage of those years finally ignited on a hot New York night." - Boston Globe. The basis of the PBS American Experience documentary Stonewall Uprising.In 1969, a series of riots over police action against The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, changed the longtime landscape of the homosexual in society literally overnight. Since then the event itself has become the stuff
While it may distract readers interested only in the story of gay liberation, Carter's logistical history of what gay author Edmund White called "our Bastille Day" will become a permanent addition to the great histories of the civil rights era. . Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. He ends appropriately with the emergence of the Gay Liberation Front and the Gay Activist Alliance, as well as the first gay pride parade, held in June 1970. From Publishers Weekly While the centerpiece here is undoubtedly his hour-by-hour relating of the explosive June 1969 riots, Carter, an editor of