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There’s a lot of stuff out there about Stonewall and the history of GLF. How can you sort through it all? What’s accurate? Who has an agenda? The resources and links here have been chosen by our membership because we feel they most accurately represent our history. If you have a resource you’d like to have listed on this page, contact us.

Stonewall

Putting an end to the myths of Stonewall:
For years, people have debated what actually happened that night in June 1969 when Stonewall was raided and a new, more militant struggle for equality was born. Due to the debates, and insistence of some to claim they knew all aspects of what had actually happened, an incredible void opened up where people could invent, imagine, or distort Stonewall and our history to their own objectives. But the myths of Stonewall are endless, but they’re easily dispelled when you look at the material proof and plain logic. Here, Mark Segal, Stonewall participant and award-winning journalist, dispels the myths.

The Stonewall You Know is a Myth. And That’s O.K.

“Who threw the first brick at Stonewall?” has become a rallying cry, a cliche and queer inside joke on the internet — never mind the fact that it’s not clear whether bricks were ever thrown during the uprising at all.

Gay Liberation Front Panel

Video of Come Out! Gay Liberation Front at Stonewall 50, moderated by Ari Shapiro of National Public Radio at the LGBT Community Center in New York City, June 27, 2019. Panelists include: Mark Segal, Allen Young, Martha Shelley, Karla Jay, Perry Brass, John Knoebel, Ellen Broidy, and Donna Gottschalk.

Outspoken: Oral History from LGBT Pioneers

Created by GLF member Steven F. Dansky, the Outspoken site includes video and audio recordings of many of GLF’s members, as well as LGBTQ pioneers, telling their stories in their own words.

GLF members you can find on Outspoken include: 
Ron Auerbacher • Warren Blumenfeldm • Perry Brass • Ellen Broidy • Roberto Camp • Dajenya • Steven F. Dansky • Nikos Diaman • Tim Elliott • Michela Griffo • Jerry Hoose • Mark Horn • Karla Jay • Jeffrey Karaban • John Knoebel • Richard Koob • Giles Kotcher • Nestor Latronico • Michael Lavery • Barbara Love • Mark Segal • Jason Serinus • Martha Shelley • Ellen Shumsky • Dennis Siple • Dan Smith • Steve Turtell • Allan Warshawsky • Allen Young

The Diana Davies Collection of Photographs

Diana Davies is an American photographer, playwright, painter, graphic artist, illustrator, and musician who was one of the leading photojournalists documenting the feminist and LGBTQ movements in the 1960s—70s. A digital collection of her work is housed at the New York Public Library and can be viewed here. From the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march in 1970 to demonstrations and actions by GLF and Lavender Menace, her work is an important resource.

GLF member Donna Gottschalk at the first Christopher Street Liberation Day march, 1970

Oral Histories: Stonewall Rebels

This site was created to commemorates the 40th anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Riots and the beginning of the modern queer rights movement. In includes interviews and oral histories from GLF members, including Steven Dansky, Perry Brass, Ellen Shumsky, Karla Jay and John Knoebel.