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4.35 AVERAGE
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This is the book I broke my 2019 book-buying ban for, and it was so very worth it. This anthology of interviews and memoir excerpts explores the LGBT rights movement in America before, during, and after the Stonewall uprising. It showcases many different voices, and I loved reading the words and thoughts of movement leaders who previously had been not much more than names to me. It made me realize how little LGBT history I had been exposed to, as it helped turn these names into fully fleshed-out people with each turn of the page. As it relies heavily on oral history, it was fascinating to see how so many people can experience the same event, but walk away with vastly different experiences/impressions. The sometimes conflicting details of the series of events at Stonewall was like a sociology lesson jumping off the page. Even if you're usually not a reader of nonfiction, I urge you to pick this book up. It truly showcases how history is a collection of human stories, and why that's so important to learn and preserve.
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"Because of the Stonewall uprising, people saw homosexuals no longer as criminals or sinners or mentally ill, but as something like members of a minority group. It was an oceanic change in thinking."
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The Stonewall Reader provides a wide variety of LGBTQ experiences prior to Stonewall, during Stonewall, and the years afterward. The perspectives are a mix of oral history interviews, primary sources from the era, and more contemporary reflections of what the era was like. I really liked that The Stonewall Reader included authors that reflected multiple lenses of diversity such as race, class, and gender. Learning more about LGBTQ history from own-voices perspectives was a really powerful experience.
As a young, queer person, I am ashamed at times to think about how little of my history I know about. I often excuse my intellectual ignorance by saying "I know enough" or "Well, so much of it was wiped out due to AIDs so nobody will ever know everything".
This reader helped both give me a greater context for the events surrounding the Stonewall Riots as well as introducing me to several new authors and activists who I had not previously heard of, and whose transformative works I now can't wait to read in full.
This reader helped both give me a greater context for the events surrounding the Stonewall Riots as well as introducing me to several new authors and activists who I had not previously heard of, and whose transformative works I now can't wait to read in full.
