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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 transphobia, 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.
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Marc Stein is a historian of sexuality, law, politics, and social movements. After sixteen years of teaching at York University in Toronto, he was appointed the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History and Constitutional Law at San Francisco State University in 2014. The author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000) , Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010) , and Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Routledge, 2012) , he also served as the editor-in-chief of the award-winning three-volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Scribners, 2003) . He has been the recipient of York University's graduate teaching award, two major research grants by the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, the Ken Dawson Award by the Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies in New York, and the Gregory Sprague and Audre Lorde Prizes by the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History. Stein is the former editor of Gay Community News in Boston, the former chair of the American Historical Association's Committee on LGBT History, and the former chair of the Organization of American Historians' Committee on the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories.
