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Jason Baumann

28 June 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising - the most significant event in the gay liberation movement and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader is a collection of firsthand 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. Most importantly, this anthology shines a light on forgotten figures who were pivotal in the movement, such as Lee Brewster, head of the Queens Liberation Front and Ernestine Eckstine, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s.

The Stonewall Reader

For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White. Finalist for the Randy Shilts Award for Gay Nonfiction, presented by The Publishing Triangle Tor.com, Best Books of 2019 (So Far) Harper’s Bazaar, The 20 Best LGBTQ Books of 2019 The Advocate, The Best Queer(ish) Non-Fiction Tomes We Read in 2019 June 28, 2019 marks the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, which is considered the most significant event in the gay liberation movement, and the catalyst for the modern fight for LGBTQ rights in the United States. Drawing from the New York Public Library's archives, The Stonewall Reader 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. Most importantly the anthology spotlights both iconic activists who were pivotal in the movement, such as Sylvia Rivera, co-founder of Street Transvestites Action Revolutionaries (STAR), as well as forgotten figures like Ernestine Eckstein, one of the few out, African American, lesbian activists in the 1960s. The anthology focuses on the events of 1969, the five years before, and the five years after. Jason Baumann, the NYPL coordinator of humanities and LGBTQ collections, has edited and introduced the volume to coincide with the NYPL exhibition he has curated on the Stonewall uprising and gay liberation movement of 1969.

The New York Public Library staff answers questions remarkable and preposterous, with illustrations by Barry Blitt. Have you’ve ever wondered if you can keep an octopus in a private home? Do you spend your time thinking about how much Napoleon’s brain weighed? If so, Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers is the book for you. The New York Public Library has been fielding questions like these ever since it was founded in 1895. Of course, some of the questions have left the librarians scratching their heads... “In what occupations may one be barefooted?” “What time does a bluebird sing?” “What does it mean when you’re being chased by an elephant?” “What kind of apple did Eve eat?” “How many neurotic people are there in the U.S.?” In Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers, the staff of the NYPL has dug through the archives to find thoughtful and often witty answers to over one hundred of the oddest, funniest, and most whimsical questions the library has received since it began record-keeping over seventy-five years ago. One of The New Yorker’s best-known and beloved illustrators, Barry Blitt, has created watercolors that bring many of the questions hilariously to life in a book that answers, among others, the question “Does anyone have a copyright on the Bible?”

A Little Book of Whimsy and Wisdom from the Files of the New York Public Library

Peculiar Questions and Practical Answers

Treasures

Jerome Rothenberg

Steven Clay

Rodney Phillips

By Jerome Rothenberg. Contributions by Steven Clay, Rodney Phillips.

Adventures in Writing, 1960-1980 : a Sourcebook of Information

A Secret Location on the Lower East Side

Bulletin of the New York Public Library

Sources of Information in the New York Public Library

Ancient Egypt

New York Public Library Staff

This guide lists materials catalogued by Columbia University Teachers College during 1994, with additional entries from the New York Public Library for selected publications in the field. All aspects of education are covered, including American elementary and secondary education, higher adult education, early childhood education, history and philosophy of education, international and comparative education, administration, education of the culturally disadvantaged and physically challenged, education of minorities, education of women, and administrative reports of departments of education in the US and abroad. The listing is intended as a supplement to the Dictionary Catalogue of the Teachers College Library, Columbia University (G.K. Hall, 1970).

Bibliographic Guide to Education 1994

Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations

Catalogue of Paintings in the Picture Galleries

This is the first one-volume reference book to organize & discuss literature by topic rather than alphabetical order, providing information in a reader-friendly format.

The New York Public Library Literature Companion

Which Consists Chiefly of the Bertram Adler, the Charles R. Heins, and the Charles W. Smith Collections

Index to the Amateur Periodicals Collection in *DY N. C. 1-187

Books for the Teen Age

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Victor Hugo Paltsits

An Exhibition of the History of New Netherland 1524-1674

The New York Tercentenary

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