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3.88 AVERAGE
3.88 AVERAGE
informative
medium-paced
This isn’t a bad book but there is very little about Stonewall. There is about 40 pages on Stonewall. I learned about the activism taking place during that time. It was a little boring but was hoping to learn more about Stonewall than I did.
Written like a good story, this book tells the individual perspectives of 6 people involved in not only the Stonewall riot, but the community organizing that happened prior to and following that fateful night. I greatly enjoyed learning more about the character of these people, their accomplishments, their differences, and the dire need for LGBTQ rights that brought them together. The success of the Christopher Street Liberation Day Parade brought tears to my eyes. This book gave me valuable perspective on how far we’ve come and how the movement still has some of the same issues experienced in the 60s today (I.e a need for greater intersectionality). I would recommend this book to anyone interested in social reform movements and especially in the history of LGBTQ activism.
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challenging
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inspiring
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Informative, raw truth that is well written and fun to read! Duberman writes about everyone as complexly as if they are personal friends or characters in a well developed novel
Historical events told through the lives and perspectives of notable figures in the LGBTQ+ community. I found it incredibly digestible. The author has each decade broken down and retells their individual experiences from childhood to lasting legacy. I learned a lot! Blown away at the dark underbelly NYC connections, and how much interconnection with the problem of white feminism in the 1970s and beyond.
It's a good informational story about six pivotal gay people in the Stonewall Riots and gay rights as a whole. But I second a lot of the reviews in saying it's written in a confusing way. Skipping timelines and order and including people in other people's stories even if not actually interacting. Overall, I enjoyed it and glad I've finally read it after leaving it unread at 145 pages for three years. It's worth it if you wish to learn more about how gay people were treated back in the 60s. Makes me proud to be queer.
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Sadly this one missed the mark for a few reasons:
1) Of the six individuals highlighted, some were given much more attention than others and were clearly favored by the author
2) Building off of #1, the flow of the book was difficult to follow, partly because some characters would not be mentioned for chapters on end. By the time they resurfaced in the narrative, I had forgotten where their storyline previously left off
4) For the amount of research that was done to write this, there were moments that felt gossipy and baseless
5) It took 200 pages to get to the actual Stonewall riots, and even then, only two of the individuals highlighted in the book were actually present at the riots. Much of the book is spent telling personal histories of the six individuals in the time leading up to the riots. I understand the purpose of the book is to raise awareness for those who are not typically at the forefront of discussions about the history of gay rights, but titling the book "Stonewall" is misleading
I think this would make a good companion piece for other Stonewall-related reads where the riots themselves, and the persecution, injustices, and actions leading up to them, are the focus of the narrative. As for this one, I would certainly not consider it a "Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America"
1) Of the six individuals highlighted, some were given much more attention than others and were clearly favored by the author
2) Building off of #1, the flow of the book was difficult to follow, partly because some characters would not be mentioned for chapters on end. By the time they resurfaced in the narrative, I had forgotten where their storyline previously left off
4) For the amount of research that was done to write this, there were moments that felt gossipy and baseless
5) It took 200 pages to get to the actual Stonewall riots, and even then, only two of the individuals highlighted in the book were actually present at the riots. Much of the book is spent telling personal histories of the six individuals in the time leading up to the riots. I understand the purpose of the book is to raise awareness for those who are not typically at the forefront of discussions about the history of gay rights, but titling the book "Stonewall" is misleading
I think this would make a good companion piece for other Stonewall-related reads where the riots themselves, and the persecution, injustices, and actions leading up to them, are the focus of the narrative. As for this one, I would certainly not consider it a "Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising that Changed America"
informative
inspiring
slow-paced