Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading List

This is a recommended reading list for literary items relating to the Stonewall Uprising as well as the legacy of the LGBTQ+ Civil Rights Movement. These items will be organized by thematic subjects so please check back as these items will be revised over time.

Stonewall History Resources

• Stonewall Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/stonewallfactsheet.pdf
• Stonewall First Anniversary Pride March Fact Sheet: https://stonewall50consortium.org/pridemarchfactsheet.pdf
• Stonewall Inn Historic Overview, NYC LGBT Historic Sites Project: https://www.nyclgbtsites.org/site/stonewall-inn-christopher-park/
• Making Gay History Podcast Stonewall Season: https://makinggayhistory.com/season-five/
• "Stonewall: The Making of a Monument" NY Times Op-Doc: https://www.nytimes.com/2019/06/04/opinion/gay-pride-stonewall.html
• Stonewall National Monument 3-D Tour: https://cyark.org/projects/stonewall-national-monument/Guided-Tour/snm-en
• Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution by David Carter (the definitive book on the Stonewall uprising)
• “The Stonewall You Know is a Myth”: https://www.nytimes.com/video/us/100000006322550/stonewall-lgbt-pride-anniversary.html
• "Stonewall Uprising," PBS American Experience documentary: https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/
• National Park Service Scholars Essays on National Significance of Stonewall and the Stonewall National Monument (five essays): https://parkplanning.nps.gov/document.cfm?parkID=565&projectID=75123&documentID=85195

Books, Articles, Essays, and Other Literary Pieces about Black LGBTQ+ Experiences
These anthologies are recommended for broader experiences:

• The National Park Foundation in partnership with the National Park Service and Gill Foundation. LGBTQ Heritage Theme Study - Telling All Americans' Stories (U.S. National Park Service) (nps.gov). Washington D. C. 2016
• The New York Public Library eds. The Stonewall Reader. Penguin Reader. 2019. Print.

These are about specific experiences:

• Baldwin, James. The Fire Next Time (Modern Library). Modern Library ed, Modern Library, 2021.
• Carter, David. Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution. 1st ed., St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
• Duberman, Martin. Stonewall: The Definitive Story of the LGBTQ Rights Uprising That Changed America. Revised, Plume, 2019.
• Lorde, Audre. Zami: A New Spelling of My Name - A Biomythography (Crossing Press Feminist Series). F First Edition Used, Crossing Press, 1982.
• Lorde, Audre, and Cheryl Clarke. Sister Outsider: Essays and Speeches. Reprint, Crossing Press, 2007.
• Marcus, Eric. Making Gay History | LGBTQ Oral Histories from the Archive. Making Gay History, 2021.
• Rustin, Bayard, et al. Time on Two Crosses: The Collected Writings of Bayard Rustin. Second, Cleis Press, 2015.
• Smith, Barbara. The Truth That Never Hurts: Writings on Race, Gender, and Freedom. First Paperback Edition, Rutgers University Press, 2000.
• Snorton, Riley. Black on Both Sides: A Racial History of Trans Identity. 3rd ed., Univ Of Minnesota Press, 2017.