The Stonewall Riots A Documentary History

NO WE'RE NOT ARGUING ABOUT THAT AGAIN!!!!!!

TROLL. THREAD. CLOSED!!!!!!!

Everyone knows that it was the fraus and lesbians who were solely responsible for the Stonewall riots. It’s pathetic how the gays are now trying to take the credit away from those who were actually responsible for starting the gay rights movement.

It is completely unacceptable that gays are trying to rewrite history so they can suit their own ends.

Haha, R1. Very amusing.

It's established fact that xe who cast the first stone at Stonewall was a genderqueer enby.

enby? Is that an intersex incel?

Why then, OP, does it say the following in the blurb:

On the occasion of its fiftieth anniversary, the most important moment in LGBTQ history—depicted by the people who influenced, recorded, and reacted to it.

June 28, 1969, Greenwich Village: The New York City Police Department, fueled by bigoted liquor licensing practices and an omnipresent backdrop of homophobia and [bold]transphobia[/bold], raided the Stonewall Inn, a neighborhood gay bar, in the middle of the night. The raid was met with a series of responses that would go down in history as the most galvanizing period in this country's fight for sexual and gender liberation: a riotous reaction from the bar's patrons and surrounding community, followed by six days of protests. Across 200 documents, Marc Stein presents a unique record of the lessons and legacies of Stonewall. Drawing from sources that include mainstream, alternative, and LGBTQ media, gay-bar guide listings, state court decisions, political fliers, first-person accounts, song lyrics, and photographs, Stein paints an indelible portrait of this pivotal moment in the LGBT movement. In The Stonewall Riots, Stein does not construct a neatly quilted, streamlined narrative of Greenwich Village, its people, and its protests; instead, he allows [bold]multiple truths[/bold] to find their voices and speak to one another, much like the conversations you'd expect to overhear in your neighborhood bar.

Published on the fiftieth anniversary of the moment the first brick (or shot glass?) was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. It offers campy stories of queer resistance, courageous accounts of movements and protests, powerful narratives of police repression, and lesser-known stories otherwise buried in the historical record, from an account of ball culture in the mid-sixties to a letter by Black Panther Huey P. Newton addressed to his brothers and sisters in the resistance. For anyone committed to political activism and social justice, The Stonewall Riots provides a much-needed resource for renewal and empowerment.

Is 'multiple truths' the new 'alternative facts'?

"it offers campy stories of queer resistance" aka delusional self-promoting anecdotes by drunks who weren't there.

R6, I was being arch,... or was I?

Absolute bullshit. Gay left-wing writers with an agenda are trying to steal the credit away from the real heroes. It’s well-known that the lesbians were the ones who actually stood up to the police harassment that sparked the riots. Then some fag hags who were in the company of a couple of cowering gays joined their sisters in protest.

Marsha was gay

I read about all these events in Oakland as I was being discharged from the United States Army after a flight from Saigon with a brief stop in Japan.

Someone told me that that's the thing where somebody hit Dorothy with a rock, and the gays rioted and started a parade and stuff.

Why isn’t there a documentary that explores what really happened? There needs to be honest retelling about how lesbians and other female protesters were the real heroes.

Most elder gays and LGBT historians seem to have revisionist spectacles on when they talk and write about the riots.

The truth is gays played virtually no role in what happened.

R9 The photos say otherwise, fuckwit

Gay men are far more photogenic, that's why they were the ones photographed.

Did you know that the Daily News printed an article about the raid called "Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad"

It's a big degrading.

The Stonewall Inn started allowing women and lesbians inside the premises and that’s why the riots happened. They weren’t going to take the same abuse and harassment that the pathetic gay men - who’d been the sole clientele up to that point - had been subjected to.

If you have Amazon Prime, there's an American Experience episode called "Stonewall Uprising" available that tells the real story. None of this ridiculous transwashing that's going on.

R14, those photos were shot a week later as a post-riot assignment for the Village Voice. The photographer gathered some kids on the street, none of whom were there the week before. They are not photos FROM the riots.

"Gay left-wing writers with an agenda are trying to steal the credit away from the real heroes."

R9, you misspelled "Asshole trans revisionists with an agenda..."

R19 Which photos l;ove, there are many out there

Bump

Fred W. McDarrah's photos, R20

more Fred W. McDarrah:

The casting call in BACKPAGE for a Stonewall movie is asking for transgender "women" to play the parts of butch lesbians, including the lesbian who started it all.

From what I can see in the pictures, it looks like everybody participated in the riots. There are black people, white people, Hispanics, drag queens, etc. Why is there a controversy with you about this?

The problem is inflating the role certain individuals played in the riots, despite considerable documentation that proves otherwise, while giving an individual an “identity” he never claimed, then deflating the role of a certain lesbian in the events, and finally insisting all “LGBTQIAA2SWTF” history stems from this, despite, again, considerable documentation that proves otherwise.