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From Eric Marcus: At a. Of these two facts I feel certain. The first one, because the police report from that night states the time that the police entered the Stonewall Inn. I like to think that the story of Stonewall is big enough for all the recollections and memories and inevitable myths that have taken shape in the five decades since Stonewall became a key turning point in the history of the LGBTQ civil rights movement and the birthplace of the gay liberation phase of the fight for equality.

Have a listen and decide which memories ring true for you. The anthology The Stonewall Readerwhich was compiled by the New York Public Library, offers first-person accounts, diaries, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers to paint a multi-faceted picture of the before, during, and after of Stonewall.

Read it here. In it was announced that Marsha P. Johnson and Sylvia Rivera—who died in andrespectively—will be commemorated with a new monumentwhich will be erected within blocks of the Stonewall. Who threw the first brick at Stonewall? Did any bricks even get thrown? These are just a few of the questions about the Stonewall riots that remain hotly debated to this day.

Have a look here. Please bear in mind that all of the film and video used in the documentary that depicts riots comes from other riots or is a contemporary reenactment.

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Back into mark the 20th anniversary of Stonewall, StoryCorps founder Dave Isay produced his own audio documentary about Stonewall; you can hear it here. I was a Lego nut, a big reader, a total loser when it came to team sports, and I struggled to learn how to swim. I had a girlfriend, Eva Newman, who was also On that hot night in Juneasleep under a full moon in the New Jersey countryside, I was dreaming of my cat, Tiger Lily, who I missed terribly.

But while I was safely tucked into bed at Camp Louemma, a rumbling of discontent was about to erupt into something much bigger, 50 miles away in New York City. Stories much closer to the action than mine. Sadly, many of the people with direct experience of what happened around in the morning on Saturday, June 28, at the Stonewall Inn, through that night and the nights that followed, have since died.

There are contradictions and inconsistencies in the accounts. Not everyone agrees, not everyone saw it from the same spot, memories change with time, and they rarely exactly match. But these oral histories, these personal stories, will bring this moment to life through the voices of the people who lived it.

A note on language. Eric Marcus : So we walk up to the front of the Stonewall. What was it like? You arrive at the front door. What happens next?