In 1969 beg gay the Uned Stat was a crimal offense. It meant livg a closeted life or survivg on the g of society. There were few safe havens. New York's Stonewall Inn was one of them. Then, one hot June night 1969, a route police raid of the club igned a history-makg revolutn. Ann Bsum's rivetg exploratn of the Stonewall Rts and the natnal gay rights movement that followed is eye-openg, unflchg, and spirg.
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STONEWALL: BREAKG OUT THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
The first history of gay rights for teen rears, wrten by award-wng nonfictn thor Ann Bsum. That’s the Stonewall. The Stonewall Inn.... * stonewall breaking out in the fight for gay rights by ann bausum *
And as a factual acunt, leav out a lot of important dividuals (cludg trans folks and people of lor) and generally embrac an upbeat, "Gay Inc" tone which I found kd of sultg to the tend teen dience.
Nonfictn queer-youth read--2015 103 reviews5 followersJuly 11, 2015Overall, this book was enjoyable, well-wrten, and a good troductn to anyone who wants to learn more about the begngs of the gay rights movement. (Includg me, who picked up this book bee I was thkg "I'm gay and I want to be more of a lear the LGBTQ muny, but all I know about Stonewall is what I read on the wikipedia page.
")But I felt like this book overwhelmgly foced on gay men who (I assume) were cisgenr, and I wish more attentn had been given to lbians and trans people and their volvement Stonewall and the movement overall.
STONEWALL : BREAKG OUT THE FIGHT FOR GAY RIGHTS
I mean, they were ocsnally mentned, but if you look at the x, you n see how out of balance was, and would've been nice if the thor uld have ma a ltle more effort to even new-york619 reviews720 followersJune 4, 2022"The spir that emerged outsi a Mafia-n bar 1969 beme the pulse of the gay muny and spired not jt an annual para but ways to exprs gay pri dividual liv. Regnised as a key galvanisg moment the stggle for gay liberatn, the Stonewall rts iated a h stage the polil movement for gay rights the US. At the time of the rts there was an existg movement for gay rights and Stonewall served to galvanise this movement and strengthen .
The rts led to a h wave of gay activism at muny levels and laid new seeds of activism that nurtured and spired many people, and which also led to a strong activism the Aids movement and beyond to the prent day. The tablishment of gay pri march is also a lastg legacy om Stonewall. It sets the scene and enabl the rear to unrstand the social ntext of the time and shows how the activism spired by Stonewall matured to the activism seen the Aids movement and the prent day book also shows how far gay rights have e global northern untri.
From the days when gay people were harassed by police, closeted at work and nied their civil liberti, to a time of change the prent day where gay people are allowed to marry, is a long transformatn procs but a fascatg one. The are lsons for all of whether straight or gay and this book wh 's narrative is a good place to beg to reflect on that. I thk almost all of the ttimony quoted here is om whe gay men.