For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader presents a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers chronicling the years leading up to and the years following the Stonewall uprising--the most significant event in the history of the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights. Spotlighting incredible activists, like Sylvia Rivera, cofounder of Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR), and forgotten figures like Ernestine Eckstein, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s, The Stonewall Reader is a powerful testament both to the exceptional people who helped shape a movement and to the crucial event that changed the course of LGBTQ rights in the United States.