Martin Duberman

La madrugada del 28 de junio de 1969 cambió la vida de las seis protagonistas de este libro, pero también cambió la de quienes hemos nacido años después en un mundo influido por sus ecos, y en especial la de quienes en este nuevo contexto hemos querido seguir luchando por el largo camino que todavia nos queda, tomando el testigo de aquella Revuelta de Stonewall que a dia de hoy, 50 años despues, sigue siendo referencial.El primer Orgullo Gay fue una revuelta dice con toda razon una camiseta, queriendonos recordar que los primeros orgullos no eran el capitalismo rosa y la apologia del estado de las cosas que son ahora, sino que quienes acudian arriesgaban su integridad fisica, y tambien en muchos casos su vida social. Pero Stonewall no fueron solo los cinco dias de movilizaciones frente a la puerta del bar tras aquella fallida redada policial. Fueron decadas de intensa y disputada lucha a favor del deseo homosexual en EEUU y Europa central. Fue el trabajo de calle de los colectivos. Fue quienes resistian y sobrevivian diariamente en una sociedad que las rechazaba por ser ademas pobres, trans y/o no blancas. Con este trabajo se pretende terminar con el mito de Stonewall que nos llega como una revuelta de tipos gays cis blancos jovenes, socialmente guapos y liberados. Es decir, contada por sus principales beneficiarios. Las trans racializadas lo dieron todo junto a las chaperas callejeras y a las bollos de todo tipo, y no falto la presencia de maricas que luchaban ocultas en grupos anarquistas, autonomos, antibelicistas, comunistas o de liberacion racial, deseosas de luchar tambien por aquello que las interpelaba mas directamente. Ante todo demostrar el potencial de lucha y de revuelta que tenemos quienes estamos a la sombra del cisheteropatriarcado. Martin Duberman (New York, 1930), historiador y dramaturgo gay de ascendencia judia, es el autor de unos treinta libros, siendo sus mas conocidos este y 'Cures: a Gay Man Odyssey' (1991). Se graduo con honores en la Universidad de Yale en 1952, y se doctoro por Harvard en 1957. Tras una etapa de profesor en Yale, en 1968 firmo un conocido manifiesto en contra de la Guerra de Vietnam, y fue encarcelado por participar en una sentada frente al Senado. Tras la Revuelta de Stonewall participo en la fundacion de grandes organizaciones como Lambda Legal Defense Fund (1971) o National Gay Task Force (1973). Asi conocio personalmente a buena parte de las personas que aparecen en el libro, con quienes compartio manifestaciones, colectivos, debates, ilusiones y ferreas amistades.

On the night of May 4, 1886, during a peaceful demonstration of labor activists in Haymarket Square in Chicago, a dynamite bomb was thrown into the ranks of police -trying to disperse the crowd. The officers immediately opened fire, killing a number of protestors and wounding some two hundred others. Albert Parsons was the best-known of those hanged; Haymarket is his story. Parsons, humanist and autodidact, was an ex-Confederate soldier who grew up in Texas in the 1870s, and fell in love with Lucy Gonzalez, a vibrant, outspoken black woman who preferred to describe herself as of Spanish and Creole descent. The novel tells the story of their lives together, of their growing political involvement, of the formation of a colorful circle of "co-conspirators"-immigrants, radical intellectuals, journalists, advocates of the working class-and of the events culminating in bloodshed. More than just a moving story of love and human struggle, more than a faithful account of a watershed event in United States history, Haymarket presents a layered and dynamic revelation of late nineteenth-century Chicago, and of the lives of a handful of remarkable individuals who were willing to risk their lives for the promise of social change.

A breathtaking historical novel that recreates the intimate milieu around Germanys Kaiser Wilhelm from 1907 through the 1930s, a period of great human suffering and destruction and also of enormous freedom and creativity, a time when the remnants and artifices of the old word still mattered, and yet when art and the social sciences were pirouetting with successive revolutions in thought and style. Set in a time when many men in the upper classes in Europe were gay, but could not be so publicly, Jews Queers Germans revolves around three men: Prince Philipp von Eulenburg, Kaiser Wilhelm IIs closest friend, who becomes the subject of a notorious 1907 trial for homosexuality; Magnus Hirschfeld, a famed, Jewish sexologist who gives testimony at the trial; and Count Harry Kessler, a leading proponent of modernism, and the keeper of a famous set of diaries which lay out in intimate detail the major social, artistic and political events of the day and allude as well to his own homosexuality. The central theme here is the gay life of a very upper crust intellectual milieu that had a real impact on the major political upheavals that would shape the modern world forever after.

A rich and revelatory biography of one of the crucial cultural figures of the twentieth century. Lincoln Kirsteins contributions to the nations life, as both an intellectual force and advocate of the arts, were unparalleled. While still an undergraduate, he started the innovative literary journal Hound and Horn, as well as the modernist Harvard Society for Contemporary Artforerunner of the Museum of Modern Art. He brought George Balanchine to the United States, and in service to the great choreographers talent, persisted, against heavy odds, in creating both the New York City Ballet and the School of American Ballet. Among much else, Kirstein helped create Lincoln Center in New York, and the American Shakespeare Festival in Stratford, Connecticut; established the pathbreaking Dance Index and the countrys first dance archives; and in some fifteen books proved himself a brilliant critic of art, photography, film, and dance. But behind this remarkably accomplished and renowned public face lay a complex, contradictory, often tortured human being. Kirstein suffered for decades from bipolar disorder, which frequently strained his relationships with his family and friends, a circle that included many notables, from W. H. Auden to Nelson Rockefeller. And despite being married for more than fifty years to a woman whom he deeply loved, Kirstein had a wide range of homosexual relationships throughout the course of his life. This stunning biography, filled with fascinating perceptions and incidents, is a major act of historical reclamation. Utilizing an enormous amount of previously unavailable primary sources, including Kirsteins untapped diaries, Martin Duberman has rendered accessible for the first time a towering figure of immense complexity and achievement.

The definitive account of the Stonewall Riots, the first gay rights march, and the LGBTQ activists at the center of the movement. Martin Duberman is a national treasure.Masha Gessen, The New YorkerOn June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New Yorks Greenwich Village, was raided by police. But instead of responding with the typical compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life.In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history. With riveting narrative skill, he re-creates those revolutionary, sweltering nights in vivid detail through the lives of six people who were drawn into the struggle for LGBTQ rights. Their stories combine to form an unforgettable portrait of the repression that led up to the riots, which culminates when they triumphantly participate in the first gay rights march of 1970, the roots of todays pride marches. Fifty years after the riots, Stonewall remains a rare work that evokes with a human touch an event in history that still profoundly affects life today.