Stonewall - by Martin Duberman (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>"The Stonewall Inn was a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. At a little after one a.m. on the morning of June 28, 1969, the police carried out a routine raid on the bar. But it turned out not to be routine at all. Instead of cowering - the usual reaction to a police raid - the patrons inside Stonewall and the crowd that gathered outside the bar fought back against the police. The five days of rioting that followed changed forever the face of lesbian and gay life. In the years since 1969, the Stonewall riots have become the central symbolic event of the modern gay movement. Renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman now tells for the first time the full story of what happened at Stonewall, recreating in vivid detail those heady, sweltering nights in June 1969 and revealing a wealth of previously unknown material. This landmark book does even more: it unforgettably demonstrates that the Stonewall riots were not the beginning - just as they were certainly not the end - of the ongoing struggle for gay and lesbian rights. Duberman does all this within a narrative framework of novelistic immediacy. Stonewall unfolds through the stories of six lives, and those individual lives broaden out into the larger historical canvas. All six came of age in the pre-Stonewall era, and all six were drawn into the struggle for gay and lesbian rights as a result of the upheaval at the Stonewall bar and the events that followed. There is Yvonne, the black lesbian daughter of a politically minded, outspoken mother ... Ray, the young Hispanic transvestite and street hustler who adopts the name "Sylvia" ... Foster, conservative, upper-class scion of a prominent family ... Karla, the increasingly militant lesbian feminist from a "nice Jewish home" ... Jim, the actor and Yippie leader, forced to break with his comrades over the issue of homophobia ... and Craig, the teenage radical of the Mattachine Society who opened the country's first gay bookstore. With riveting narrative skill, Duberman charts the lives of these six people. Their stories combine into an unforgettable portrait of gay and lesbian life during the decades of repression that led up to the Stonewall riots. They expose, too, the divisions based on race, class, and gender that developed within the gay world itself, as well as the fiery rifts between proponents of the strategies of propriety and confrontation. But what is brought to life above all else are the sense of worth and the solidarity, born of the struggle at Stonewall, which have escalated in the years since. The book builds to a magnificently moving climax when each of the six protagonists participates in the first Gay Rights March on June 28, 1970. Stonewall is that rare work of history: it encapsulates an era - and presents it with a human face." --Provided by publisher.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><b>The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. <br></b><br><b>"Martin Duberman is a national treasure."--Masha Gessen, </b><i><b>The New Yorker</b></i> <p/>On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. <p/>In <i>Stonewall</i>, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of today's pride marches. <p/>Fifty years after the riots, <i>Stonewall </i>remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.<p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>"A fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent, society-changing '60s."<br><b>--<i>San Francisco Chronicle</i><br></b><br>"Interesting...instructive...Duberman argues correctly that Stonewall marked a generational, organizational, and ideological shift that brought gay liberation into the array of social protest."<br><b>--<i>The New York Times Book Review</i></b> <p/>"Illuminating...a vivid and stirring recreation of the Stonewall riot, probing beneath its symbolism to discover the social forces it unleashed."<br><b>--<i><i>Los Angeles Times Book Review</i></i><br></b><br>"One of the most important books about lesbians and gays to emerge since Stonewall."<br><b>--<i>Seattle Weekly</i></b> <p/>"Moving...Duberman rises to history's most crucial challenges as he expertly chronicles how long and tortuous the road to Stonewall actually was."<br><b>--<i>The </i></b><i><b>Washington Post</b></i> <p/>"A powerful and compelling book that will make it harder for future 'sixties' books to ignore the gay liberation movement."<br><b>--<i>The Nation</i><br></b><br>"Duberman's best book yet...No one has mined sources as extensively to tell the story of Stonewall."<br>--<b><i>The Advocate</i></b> <p/>"Duberman's history lesson is like a script to some extraordinary movie...It even has a fascinating cast of secondary characters."<br><b><i>--The Boston Globe <p/></i></b>"Engrossing...a long overdue look at one of the seminal events in the history of gay activism. Important and absorbing."<br><b>--<i>Kirkus Reviews</i></b><br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><b>Martin Duberman</b> is Distinguished Professor of History Emeritus at City University of New York, where he founded and directed the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies. He is the author of more than twenty-five biographies, memoirs, essays, plays, and novels. He is a recipient of the Bancroft Prize, multiple Lambda Literary Awards, and the Lifetime Achievement Award from the American Historical Association, and he has been a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and the National Book Award. In 2012 Duberman received an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters from Amherst College and in 2017 an honorary Doctor of Letters from Columbia University.
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