Library Talks

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The Stonewall Riots were a flash point in LGBTQ history. After the riots that took place at the Stonewall Inn in June 1969, the LGBTQ civil rights movement went from handfuls of pioneering activists to a national movement mobilizing thousands.

On this special episode we’ll hear what happened over the nights of the riots through archival audio of iconic transgender rights activists Sylvia Rivera, Marsha P. Johnson, and Miss Major Griffin-Gracy. NYPL’s Jason Baumann returns for an interview with pioneering photojournalist and gay rights activist Kay Tobin Lahusen. Plus stories from Eric Marcus’ podcast Making Gay History, and the story of Stormé DeLarverie from the archives at The Schomburg Center.

Also mentioned:

– ‘The Stonewall Reader’
– The exhibit ‘Love & Resistance: Stonewall 50’
– Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Photographs and Papers
– NYC Trans Oral History Project, including Miss Major’s full length interview

For more, listen to our previous episode “Before Stonewall” including an interview with writer and curator Hugh Ryan about his new book “When Brooklyn was Queer.”