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America in the 1960s and 1970s: Gay Rights

Gay Pride

Videos

Dyketactics and Other Films from the 1970s. Barbara Hammer. New York, 2007. Available?

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?

Stonewall

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?
Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution
David Carter. New York, St. Martin's Press, 2004. Available?
"Homo Nest Raided, Queen Bees Are Stinging Mad,"
New York Daily News July 6, 1969

To find other materials on the Stonewall riots, seach the Library Catalog with the subject words

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