THE STONEWALL RIOTS

ncludes accounts of the riots by protesters and police *Includes online resources and a bibliography for further reading *Includes a table of contents The Stonewall riots were a key moment for gay people. Throughout modern history, gays had thought of themselves a s something like a mental illness or maybe a sin or a crime. Gay liberation allowed us to make the leap to being a 'minority group,' which made life much easier. Edmund White In 1969, America was still undergoing plenty of social turmoil, much of it the result of sweeping...[Read more]