"For the fiftieth anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, an anthology chronicling the tumultuous fight for LGBTQ rights in the 1960s and the activists who spearheaded it, with a foreword by Edmund White"-- Provided by publisher.

Before Stonewall. Audre Lorde, from Zami: a new spelling of my name -- John Rechy, from City of night -- Joan Nestle, from A restricted country -- Del Martin and Phyllis Lyon, from "Lesbians united" -- Franklin Kameny, from Gay is good -- Virginia Prince, "The how and why of Virginia" -- Samuel R. Delany, from The motion of light in water -- Barbara Gittings, from The gay crusaders -- Ernestine Eckstein, from "Interview with Ernestine" -- Judy Grahn, "The psychoanalysis of Edward the dyke" -- Mario Martino, from Emergence: a transsexual autobiography -- Craig Rodwell, from The gay crusaders -- During Stonewall. Dick Leitsch, "The hairpin drop heard around the world" -- Thomas Lanigan-Schmidt, "1969 Mother Stonewall and the golden rats" -- Howard Smith, "View from inside: full moon over the Stonewall" -- Lucian Truscott IV, "View from outside: gay power comes to Sheridan Square" -- Mark Segal, from And then I danced -- Morty Manford, from Interview with Eric Marcus -- Marsha P. Johnson and Randy Wicker, from Interview with Eric Marcus -- Sylvia Rivera, from Interview with Eric Marcus -- Martin Boyce, from Oral history interview with Eric Marcus -- Edmund White, from City boy -- Holly Woodlawn, from A low life in high heels -- Jayne County, from Man enough to be a woman -- Jay London Toole, from New York City Trans Oral History Project Interview with Theodore Kerr and Abram J. Lewis -- Miss Major Griffin-Gracy, from New York City Trans Oral History Project Interview with Abram J. Lewis -- After Stonewall. Martha Shelley, from "Gay is good" -- Karla Jay, from Tales of the lavender menace -- Steven F. Dansky, "Hey man" -- Harry Hay, from Radically gay -- Rev. Troy D. Perry from The Lord is my shepherd and he knows I'm gay -- Perry Brass, "We did it!" -- Jeanne Córdova, from When we were outlaws -- Marsha P. Johnson, from Interview with Allen Young, "Rapping with a street transvestite revolutionary" -- Kiyoshi Kuromiya, from Philadelphia LGBT History Project Interview with Marc Stein -- Joel Hall, "Growing up black and gay" -- Tommi Avicolli Mecca, "Brushes with Lily Law" -- Penny Arcade, from Bitch! Dyke! Faghag! Whore! -- Jill Johnston, from Lesbian nation -- John E. Fryer, MD, from "John E. Fryer, MD, and the Dr. H. Anonymous episode" -- Jonathan Ned Katz, from Gay American history -- Arthur Evans, from Witchcraft and the gay counterculture -- Larry Mitchell, from The faggots and their friends between revolutions -- Chirlane McCray, "I am a lesbian'.