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Reading Stonewall

Published: May 2, 2019, 10 a.m.

It's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and Jason Baumann\u2014NYPL curator and Grand Marquessa of All Things Stonewall\u2014joins Gwen and Frank to discuss the Library's new anthology about the uprising and its role in the LGBTQ civil rights movement. And then he walks us through some yoga breathing, and it's legit.

Book Recommendations

The Stonewall Reader in our catalog and the\xa0NYPL shop

Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era\xa0in our catalog and the NYPL shop

City of Night by John Rechy

City Boy:\xa0My Life in New York during the 1960s and 70s\xa0(and more books)\xa0by Edmund White

The History and Practices of Hatha Yoga by James Mallinson

Also mentioned:

Kay Tobin Lahusen's photographs\xa0in our Archives & Manuscripts Division

Jason's first appearance on The Librarian Is In (episode 2!)

And check out more of the exhibition and the rest of the Library's Stonewall coverage at nypl.org/stonewall50.