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. 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. Audiobook Table of Contents: Foreword by Edmund White, read by Eric Marcus Introduction by Jason Bauman, read by Jason Bauman Audre Lorde, from Zami: A New Spelling of My Name read by Tenaja Jordan John Rechy, from City of Night read by Danny Deferrari Joan Nestle, from A Restricted Country read by Rebecca Lowman Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, from Lesbians United read by Barbara Rosenblatt Franklin Kameny, from Gay Is Good read by Michael Crouch Virginia Prince, The How and Why of Virginia read by Minerva Summer Samuel R. Delany, from The Motion of Light in Water read by Xavier Smith Barbara Gittings, from The Gay Crusaders read by Rebecca Lowman Ernestine Eckstein, from Interview with Ernestine read by Tenaja Jordan and Rebecca Lowman Judy Grahn, The Psychoanalysis of Edward the Dyke read by Barbara Rosenblatt Mario Martino, from Emergence: A Transsexual Autobiography read by Hugo Bresson Craig Rodwell, from The Gay Crusaders read by Graham Halstead Dick Leitsch, The Hairpin Drop Heard Around the World read by Michael Crouch Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, 1969 Mother Stonewall and the Golden Rats read by Graham Halstead Howard Smith, View from Inside: Full Moon Over the Stonewall read by Michael Crouch Lucian Truscott IV, View from Outside: Gay Power Comes to Sheridan Square read by Graham Halstead Mark Segal, from And Then I Danced read by Michael Crouch Morty Manford, from Interview with Eric Marcus Marsha P. Johnson and Randy Wicker, from Interview with Eric Marcus Sylvia Rivera, from Interview with Eric Marcus Martin Boyce, from Oral History Interview with Eric Marcus Edmund White, from City Boyz read by Eric Marcus Holly Woodlawn, from A Low Life in High read by Serene Rose Jayne County, from Man Enough to Be a Woman read by Minerva Summer Jay London Toole, from New York.