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4.35 AVERAGE
4.35 AVERAGE
For the most part, I really enjoyed this collection! I really appreciated that it didn’t just focus on Stonewall, but also talked about the gay rights movement prior to the uprising, as well as the events that followed it. I think, overall, that gave a more complete view of what the uprising meant, inasmuch as a view of the Stonewall riots can be complete. I also really appreciated that this highlighted voices very often left out in accounts of the Stonewall riots, specifically Black and brown trans women, and just in general, highlighted works by queer people of color that I’m excited to read more from. I will say I wasn’t the biggest fan of the foreword because a lot of the way Edmund White compares the gay rights movement to other movements just,,, rubbed me the wrong way. That said, overall, I found this a really valuable resource in terms of gaining insight into the Stonewall riots from first-person accounts. I was also able to find a few new topics/sources to further look into, which I’m excited about! This book featured a lot of interviews with historical figures I’m interested in, too, so I’m looking forward to diving into those!
Great collection of pieces by gay men, lesbians, drag queens and trans people who were involved in and influenced by the 1969 Stonewall Uprising, including plenty of works by writers of color, thankfully. We’d be nowhere without these pioneering activists and the movement they started. Of course bisexuality wasn’t much explored or discussed back then, so the word is only mentioned about twice in the whole anthology, leaving me hungry for more queer history texts from the bi/pan/otherwise queer perspective. But I also wrote down a lot of titles that were excerpted in this collection that I want to read in their entirety. Our history is important and we need to know it. Glad I picked this up just in time for the anniversary of Stonewall.
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really great and eye opening analogy of not only stonewall, but the gay rights movement in america during the 60s-70s.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Hate crime, Homophobia, Transphobia, Police brutality, Lesbophobia
these are real accounts of real events, so most if not all of the content that could possibly be triggering is done for the sake of simply telling history.
I learned so much history and so much about the background of both the Stonewall riots and the the culture surrounding them.
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I really enjoyed this! I especially enjoyed the arranger's dedication to including voices outside of white gay men and really calling out the racism, transphobia, and lesbophobia of gay rights leaders.
An absolutely beautiful account of the before, during, and after of Stonewall all from eyewitnesses. Genuinely educational while still being just fun. Also, I love the realization that I'm coming to which is Stonewall is nothing more than a myth we as the gay community are constantly constructing. Nobody knows what happened, it wasn't the first (or the last) of it's kind. But through our collective faith & pride, we turned it into something inconceivably powerful.
Very nice collection. I really enjoyed reading it. Good mix of familiar names and others I hadn’t heard of before. Good to see some Philadelphia figures and history included too.
This is a wonderful collection featuring an extremely diverse array of voices. If you have any interest in queer history, check it out. Also the number of new books I found to look into via this book is remarkable.
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A great way to learn about queer life before, during, and after Stonewall from people who were there and in their own words.
I was surprised by the diversity of the accounts, expecting them to be largely from cis white gay men. The accounts address racism and sexism within the queer community in accounts, essays, etc. from people who fought for intersectional rights (e.g., Black drag queens, lesbian women).
I was surprised by the diversity of the accounts, expecting them to be largely from cis white gay men. The accounts address racism and sexism within the queer community in accounts, essays, etc. from people who fought for intersectional rights (e.g., Black drag queens, lesbian women).