Documenting the Stonewall Riots: Resources
Resources on Stonewall and the Stonewall Era by Marc Stein
Books
The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: NYU Press, 2019): a collection of 200 primary sources from 1965 to 1973, along with an introductory essay.
Queer Public History: Essays on Scholarly Activism (Oakland: Univ. of California Press, 2022).
Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (New York: Routledge, 2012 and 2023): a historical survey of the gay and lesbian movement from 1950 to 1990, with more general overviews of the pre-1950 and post-1990 eras.
Short Encyclopedia Entries
Fred Wasserman, “Stonewall Riots,” Encyclopedia of LGBT History in America, ed. Marc Stein (New York: Scribners, 2003), vol. 3, 155-159.
Marc Stein, “Stonewall Riots,” SAGE Encyclopedia of Trans Studies, ed. Abbie Goldberg and Genny Beemyn (Los Angeles: Sage, 2021), 803-806.
OutHistory Exhibits
“LGBT Direct Action Bibliography, Chronology, and Inventory, 1965-1973,” 2023, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/direct.
“‘Where Perversion Is Taught’: The Untold History of a Gay Rights Demonstration at Bucks County Community College, May 9, 1968,” 2021, https://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/wh/whe.
“50th Anniversary Demonstrations, Philadelphia,” OutHistory, 23 Jun. 2015, http://www.outhistory.org/exhibits/show/50th-ann: exhibit on July Fourth Annual Reminder demonstrations at Independence Hall, 1965-69.
“Dewey’s Sit-In, Philadelphia, April 25, 1965,” OutHistory, 20 Apr. 2015, http://outhistory.org/exhibits/show/deweys-sit-in: exhibit on Dewey’s Sit-in in Philadelphia, 1965.
Articles and Presentations
“Recalling Purple Hands Protests of 1969,” Bay Area Reporter, 31 Oct. 2019, 4-5, https://www.ebar.com/news/news//283715.
“Stonewall and Queens,” From the Square: NYU Press Blog, 9 Aug. 2019, https://www.fromthesquare.org/stonewall-and-queens/#.XVSCNehKhPY.
“California’s ‘Gay Revolution’ in the Stonewall Era,” California Historical Society, 25 June 2019, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BWIZZ98_7A0.
“Queer Rage: Police Violence and the Stonewall Rebellion of 1969,” Process: A Blog for American History, 3 June 2019, processhistory.org/stein-stonewall.
“A Theory of Revolution for the Riots,” The Gay & Lesbian Review, May 2019, 19-20, https://glreview.org/article/a-theory-of-revolution-for-the-riots/.
Media Articles, Interviews, and Presentations about Marc Stein’s The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: NYU Press, 2019)
“The LGBT Stonewall Tipping Point, Wondros Podcast, 19 May 2021, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B9ZWZ5gzHbY.
“Il Cammino del Movimento LGBT dai Moti di Stonewall ad Oggi,” Progetto Gionata: Portales u Fede ed Omosessualita, https://www.gionata.org/, 15 November 2020.
“The Aftermath: Stonewall Riots,” The Alarmist, 2 July 2020, https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/the-aftermath-stonewall-riots/id1468678544?i=1000481739409.
Claire Potter, “Kicking and Screaming: Stonewall at 50,” Exiles on 12th Street, 28 June 2019, https://publicseminar.org/2019/06/kicking-and-screaming-stonewall-at-50/
Mina Kim, “San Francisco and LGBTQ Pride,” Forum, KQED, San Francisco, 27 June 2019, https://www.kqed.org/forum/2010101871889/san-francisco-and-lgbtq-pride-before-and-after-stonewall.
Brian Bromberger, “Pride 2019: Book Offers Many Layers to the Stonewall Story,” Bay Area Reporter, 25 June 2019, https://www.ebar.com/news/news//278073.
Tobin Low and Kathy Tu, “What Do We Have in Common?” Nancy, WNYC, New York, 24 June 2019, https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/nancy/episodes/nancy-podcast-what-do-we-have-in-common.
Mitch Jeserich, “A History of the Stonewall Riots,” Letters and Politics, KPFA, Berkeley, California, 24 June 2019, https://kpfa.org/episode/letters-and-politics-june-24-2019/.
Steve Scully, “Stonewall Riots 50th Anniversary,” American History TV, C-SPAN, New York City, 23 June 2019, https://www.c-span.org/video/?461725-1/stonewall-riots-50th-anniversary.
Brian Lehrer, “Prejudice and Price: Oral History from Stonewall 1969,” Brian Lehrer Show, WNYC, New York City, 21 June 2019, https://www.wnyc.org/story/prejudice-and-pride-stonewall-1969/.
Alison Stewart, “Stonewall Histories,” All of It, WNYC, New York City, 14 June 2019, https://www.wnyc.org/story/stonewall-riots-documentary-history/.
Katie Uva, “A Documentary History of Stonewall: An Interview with Marc Stein,” Gotham: A Blog for Scholars of New York City History, 13 June 2019, https://www.gothamcenter.org/blog/a-documentary-history-of-stonewall-an-interview-with-marc-stein.