The Stonewall Reader

While scholars seem to be in some tentative agreement that something happened in Sheridan Square early in the morning of July 28, 1969, and that this riot, or rebellion, or uprising continued for a few nights following, the questions of what, why, and who remain contested. Was Stonewall a significant event or a usable origin story? Was it exceptional or emblematic? Was it the culmination of something or the start of something else? If it meant something, what did it mean? And what does that mean for queer (and nonqueer) people now? In response to these lingering questions, two anthologies pertaining to Stonewall, Marc Stein's The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History, and the New York Public Library's The Stonewall Reader (edited by Jason Baumann), appeared on the event's fiftieth anniversary, each grappling with the roots, meanings, and legacy of Stonewall while allowing for the unattainability of ever really grasping what happened

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