America in the 1960s and 1970s

Gay Rights Movement

Before AIDS: Gay Health Politics in the 1970s: Katie Batza. Philadelphia, University of Pennsylvania Press, 2018. Available?

The Gay Rights Movement:1951-1975: Mattachine Society of New York, Inc.: Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1998.; 24 microfilm reels; archives of the Mattachine Society of New York. Index to the microfilm collection; Alexander Call Number: M-FILM 2789

The Gay Rights Movement [1970-1983]: Gay Activists Alliance: From the International Gay Information Center, the New York Public Library.: Woodbridge, Conn., Research Publications, 1998. 21 microfilm reels. Available?

Witness to Revolution: The Advocate Reports on Gay and Lesbian Politics, 1967-1999.: Chris Bull, editor. Los Angeles, Calif., Alyson Books, 1999. Available?

Making History: The Struggle for Gay and Lesbian Equal Rights, 1945-1990: An Oral History: Eric Marcus. New York, N.Y., HarperCollins, 1992. Available?

To find other materials on the Gay Rights Movement, seach the Library Catalog with the subject words

The Stonewall Reader: Jason Baumann, editor. New York, Penguin Books, 2019.; In honor of the 50th anniversary of Stonewall, this is a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots.

Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution: David Carter. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2004. Available?

Stonewall Uprising [DVD]. 2010.: "Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived." Available?