Stonewall by Martin Duberman Summary
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Stonewall chronicles the pivotal 1969 riots that ignited the LGBTQ+ movement, through six intimate personal stories. Hailed as "a national treasure" by The New Yorker's Masha Gessen, Duberman's masterpiece reveals how a single night of resistance forever changed America's fight for equality.
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The Night That Changed America Forever
In the early hours of June 28, 1969, what began as a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn ignited a revolution. The patrons of this Mafia-run gay bar-many of them street queens, hustlers, and marginalized youth-did something unprecedented: they fought back. For six days, demonstrations rocked Greenwich Village, birthing the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement and forever changing American society. What made this moment different from previous raids? Perhaps it was the accumulated rage of years of harassment, or maybe the revolutionary spirit of the 1960s had finally penetrated the gay community. Whatever sparked it, the resistance at Stonewall marked the moment when thousands of LGBTQ+ Americans decided they would no longer accept living in the shadows. Imagine living in a world where your very existence was classified as a mental illness, where you could be fired, evicted, or arrested simply for being yourself. This was America before Stonewall-a place where gay bars operated under Mafia protection, where police entrapment was common, and where most LGBTQ+ people lived double lives marked by secrecy and shame. The uprising didn't just challenge police authority; it challenged an entire system that had criminalized and pathologized queer existence for generations.
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