This book brings together 200 primary sources from before, during, and after the Stonewall Riots (1965-1973), with an introduction that reviews multiple ways of interpreting and analyzing the transformative LGBT uprising.
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Chiang, Howard, After Eunuchs: Science, Medicine, and the Transformation of Sex in Modern China
From anticastration discourses in the late Qing era to sex-reassignment surgeries in Taiwan in the 1950s and queer movements in the 1980s and 1990s, After Eunuchs explores the ways the introduction of Western biomedical sciences transformed normative meanings of gender, sexuality, and the body in China.
Newsome, Jake, Pink Triangle Legacies: Coming Out in the Shadow of the Holocaust
Pink Triangle Legacies traces the transformation of the pink triangle from a Nazi concentration camp badge and emblem of discrimination into a widespread, recognizable symbol of queer activism, pride, and community. W. Jake Newsome provides an overview of the Nazis’ targeted violence against LGBTQ+ people and details queer survivors’ fraught and ongoing fight for the acknowledgement, compensation, and memorialization of LGBTQ+ victims.