On June 28th many Americans will celebrate the events that took place at a seedy bar in New York City 40 years ago - events that many historians and activists claim gave birth to the modern Gay Pride and Gay Rights movements: the Stonewall Riots. Below is a brief list of materials available through the Thurgood Marshall Law Library that focus on LGBT rights and the impact of Stonewall in civil rights history.
Books:
Bamforth, Nicholas. Sexuality, morals and justice: a theory of lesbian and gay rights law / Nicholas Bamforth. London; Washington, [D.C.]. General Stacks - K3242.3.B36 1997
Before stonewall: activists for gay and lesbian rights in historical context / Vern L. Bullough, editor; Judith M. Saunders, Sharon Valente, associate editors; C. Todd White, assistant editor. New York: Harrington Park Press, c2002. General Stacks - HQ76.5.R56 2002
Carter, David. Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution / David Carter. New York: St. Martin's Press, 2004. General Stacks - HQ76.C315 2004
Mezey, Susan Gluck. Queers in court: gay rights law and public policy / Susan Gluck Mezey. Lanham, Md. : Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, c2007. General Stacks - KF4754.5.Z9 M49 2007
Transgender rights / Paisley Currah, Richard M. Juang, Shannon Price Minter, editors. Minneapolis : University of Minnesota Press, c2006. General Stacks - HQ77.9 .T716 2006
E-books:
Freedom to Differ: the shaping of the Gay and Lesbian struggle for civil rights. (Netlibrary). Miller, Diane Helene. New York University Press. 1998.
One of the children: gay black men in Harlem. (Netlibrary). William G. Hawkeswood ; edited by Alex W. Costley. University of California Press, c1996.
Irreconcilable differences? Intellectual stalemate in the gay rights debate. (Ebrary). Thomas C. Caramagno. Westport, Conn. : Praeger, 2002.
Institutional Repository:
Khan, Ronald, "Why Does a Moderate/Conservative Supreme Court in a Conservative Age Expand Gay Rights?: Lawrence v. Texas (2003) in Legal and Political Time" (2008). Schmooze 'tickets'. Paper 94.
Articles:
Armstrong, Elizabeth A., and Suzanna M. Crage. "Movements and Memory: The Making of the Stonewall Myth." American Sociological Review 71.5 (Oct. 2006): 724-751. (via Academic Search Premier)
Arriola, Elvia R. "Faeries, marimachas, queens, and lezzies: the construction of homosexuality before the 1969 Stonewall Riots." Columbia Journal of Gender and Law 5 (1995). (via Heinonline)
Cusac, Anne-Marie. "The Promise of Stonewall." Progressive 63.8 (Aug. 1999): 10. (via Academic Search Premier)
Gillespie, Wayne. "Thirty-Five Years After Stonewall: An Exploratory Study of Satisfaction with Police among Gay, Lesbian, and Bisexual Persons at the 34th Annual Atlanta Pride Festival." Journal of Homosexuality 55.4 (Nov. 2008): 619-647. (via Academic Search Premier)
Harvard Civil Rights and Civil Liberties Law Review, 29 (1994). Symposium - Stonewall at 25. (via Heinonline)
Shepard, Benjamin. "History or Myth? Writing Stonewall." Lambda Book Report 13.1/2 (Aug. 2004): 12-14. (via Academic Search Premier)
Thorstad, David. "Homosexuality and the American left: The impact of Stonewall." Journal of Homosexuality 29.4 (Dec. 1995): 319. (via Academic Search Premier)
General Internet:
A very accessible introduction to the events surrounding the Stonewall Riots can be found on Wikipedia at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stonewall_riots.
Stonewall 25 - an exhibit at Columbia University on the 25th anniversary of Stonewall. http://www.columbia.edu/cu/lweb/eresources/exhibitions/sw25/
Remembering Stonewall (audio) - http://soundportraits.org/on-air/remembering_stonewall/-air/remembering_stonewall/
Associations:
University of Maryland School of Law, Lesbian Gay Bi-Sexual Transgendered Law Association
American Bar Association: Commission on Sexual Orientation and Gender Identity
The National Lesbian, Gay, Bi-Sexual and Transgendered Bar Association
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