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Q : Gays, Lesbians, and Bisexuals Born Around 1969's Stonewall
Riots Tell Their Stories of Growing Up in the Age of Information by
Robin Bernstien (Editor), Seth Clark Silberman (Editor)
Since the
advent of the gay liberation movement in 1969 -- the direct result
of the Stonewall Riots in Greenwich Village -- there has been a
plethora of writing about the lives of gay men and lesbians. Much
of this has been done by people who were already "out"
by the mid-1970s. Generation Q is a collection of essays,
memoirs, recollections and thoughts by young people who were just
being born in 1969. Ranging from humorous commentary to serious
examinations of what it means to be a young gay man in the middle
of the AIDS epidemic, this is an important, moving and challenging
look at the problems and the pleasures facing young gay people
today, for it tells us not only about our youthful presence but
our future as well.
This collection of short essays from queers of
every persuasion who grew up in the shadow of Stonewall covers a
broad range of experiences: from humorous vignettes about gay men
buying cowboy boots in Wyoming to painful glimpses of drag queens
being randomly bashed on the street, from dykes with fetishes for
all-boy porn to recovery from lesbian domestic violence--not to
mention the ultra-radical manifesto "F*** Your Healthy Gay
Lifestyle," which lambastes gays and lesbians who leech off
queer culture while sucking up to the straight mainstream. None of
the other articles are quite that hardcore, but they all possess a
toughness of spirit--as well as solid writing ability--that
clearly demonstrates this generation's determination to live
queerly despite (or because of) all the consequences. (Amazon.com)
 Gay
Crusaders (Homosexuality : Lesbians and Gay Men in Society,
History and Literature) by
Kay Tobin, Randy Wicker
This first-and so
far only-collection of biographical sketches of American Gay
activists vividly communicates, through their personal stories, a
sense of the concerns, ideas, and feelings motivating a variety of
Gay liberationists between 1955 and 1972; it is an important
source on seventeen years of Gay movement history. The accounts
are derived from tape-recorded interviews conducted in 1971-72
with eleven male and four female homosexuals, supplemented by
quotes from published materials by and about them. The authors,
themselves long-time activists, chose their interviewees "for
their record of accomplishment in advancing the Gay cause, and for
the diversity of their contributions and viewpoints." Each of
the fifteen crusaders reveals what in his or her own experience
led to a commitment to change the conditions of life for Gay
people. The men interviewed are Troy Perry, Jim Owles, Craig
Rodwell, Dick Michaels, Frank Kameny, Jack Baker, Michael
McConnell, Marty Robinson, Lige Clark, Jack Nichols, and Arthur
Evans. The women are Phyllis Lyon, Del Martin, Ruth Simpson, and
Barbara Gittings. The book includes sixteen pages of photos and a
"Symposium" section of comments by the interviewees on
such topics as psychiatry and "cure," revolution versus
reform, Gays in old age, confrontation tactics, Gays in politics.
The Gay Crusaders, issued originally as a paperback original, is
now first offered in a library edition.
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The online edition of a Columbia University
Libraries exhibition held from May 25 to September 17, 1994 in
conjunction with the international celebration of the twenty-fifth
anniversary of the Stonewall Riots.
This exhibition, originally on display from May 25
to September 17, 1994 at Columbia University's Butler Library, was
drawn from the collections of Columbia Libraries as well as from
the private libraries of the guest curators. Its display was
planned to coincide with "Stonewall 25," the
international celebration of the 25th anniversary of the U.S. gay
and lesbian civil rights movement, held in New York City in June
1994.
The original exhibition was coordinated by
Stephen Davis, of CU Libraries, and Mario DiGangi and Julia
Giordano, both of the CU Dept. of English and Comparative
Literature. Claudia Funke, of the CU Rare Book & Manuscript
Library, mounted the exhibit.
This WorldWideWeb hypertext version of the
exhibit was prepared by Stephen P. Davis with the assistance of
Robin Dale, Dave Roberts, and Jeffrey S. Busch
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From Stonewall
and Beyond
On Friday evening, June 27, 1969, the New York
City tactical police force raided a popular Greenwich Village gay
bar, the Stonewall Inn. Raids were not unusual in 1969; in fact,
they were conducted regularly without much resistance. However,
that night the street erupted into violent protest as the crowds
in the bar fought back. The backlash and several nights of protest
that followed have come to be known as the Stonewall Riots...
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By Jerry Lisker, Reprinted from The New York
Daily News, July 6, 1969
Excerpt:
Last Friday the privacy of the Stonewall was
invaded by police from the First Division. It was a raid. They had
a warrant. After two years, police said they had been informed
that liquor was being served on the premises. Since the Stonewall
was without a license, the place was being closed. It was the law.
All hell broke loose when the police entered the
Stonewall. The girls instinctively reached for each other. Others
stood frozen, locked in an embrace of fear.
Only a handful of police were on hand for the
initial landing in the homosexual beachhead. They ushered the
patrons out onto Christopher Street, just off Sheridan Square. A
crowd had formed in front of the Stonewall and the customers were
greeted with cheers of encouragement from the gallery...
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From The Knitting Circle
Excerpt:
The Stonewall Inn, (named after the Confederate
General 'Stonewall' Jackson), was a gay bar (said to be sleazy and
Mafia-run) at 51-53 Christopher Street just east of Sheridan
Square in New York's Greenwich Village. (A black and white
photograph of the inn is reproduced in Weinberg
and Williams, (1974), photograph 5.) On the night of 27/28th.
June, 1969, a police inspector and seven other officers from the
Public Morals Section of the First Division of the New York City
Police Department arrived shortly after midnight, served a warrant
charging that alcohol was being sold without a license, and
announced that employees would be arrested...
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From People With a Story
Immediately following the Stonewall riots of
June 27th 1969, a series of demonstrations and conversations went
on that gave birth to the modern Gay movement. In his book, The
Gay Militants (New York: 1971) Donn Teal reproduced verbatim some
of the early flyers which where handed out, on the street and at
conferences. They show both an intense immediate awareness of the
historic turning point for gays and lesbians and reveal real
attempts to engage in analysis as well as protest.
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The confrontations between demonstrators and
police at The Stonewall Inn in Greenwich Village over the weekend
of June 27-29, 1969 are usually cited as the beginning of the
modern movement for Lesbian/Gay liberation. What might have been a
routine police raid on a bar patronized by homosexuals, became a
signal event which sparked a movement. The Stonewall riots have
developed into the stuff of myth, about which many of the most
commonly held beliefs are probably untrue...
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After Stonewall,
the sequel to the Emmy award winning Before
Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life
from the riots at the Stonewall Bar in Greenwich Village in 1969
to the end of the 20th Century. The feature length film is
narrated by Melissa
Etheridge and includes interviews with Congressman Barney
Frank, author Rita Mae Brown and novelist Armistead Maupin...
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