Stonewall "As scholars we should read Stonewall, and as teachers we should assign it. All of us will be challenged to build on it. "Both a fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent, society-changing 60s.."—San Francisco Chronicle."—Michael Sherr
| Title | : | Stonewall |
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.58 (571 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0452272068 |
| Format Type | : | Paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 368 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 1994-05-01 |
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"As scholars we should read Stonewall, and as teachers we should assign it. All of us will be challenged to build on it."—Michael Sherry, Northwestern Univ. "Both a fascinating account of the birth of gay liberation and a replay of the turbulent, society-changing 60s."—San Francisco Chronicle.
Editorial : From Publishers Weekly A police raid on the Stonewall, an unlicensed Greenwich Village gay bar, set off a series of riots in the summer of 1969 that mark the birth of the modern gay and lesbian political movement. Duberman ( Paul Robeson ) re-examines this event through the vibrant, intertwined portraits of six people--two lesbians, three gay men, one transvestite--whose lives converged at the Stonewall Rebellion and in the militant movement it spawned. Politically, his six subjects run the gamut from ex-priest Jim Fouratt--a leftist and Yippie cohort of Abbie Hoffman--to Foster Gunnison, who devoted his energies to moderate gay causes and later became a conservative. Yvonne Flowers, a black feminist, overcame her suspicion that the gay movement was not open to people of color, while transvestite Sylvia Rivers faced hostility from lesbians. Duberman, himself gay, exposes schisms in gay liberation that pitted gay men against lesbians, male chauvinists against feminists, whites against b
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