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In late June 1969, a routine police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a well-known gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, sparked several nights of riots. "Stonewall," as these events came to be called, quickly became the rallying cry of LGBT people as they created an increasingly visible political movement and community. Widely considered to be the beginning of the modern gay rights movement, Stonewall has taken on significance as the preeminent symbol of LGBT resistance.

Penn State University Libraries' resources related to the Stonewall Riots listed in the display include:

• Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America
  also available online to researchers with a Penn State Access Account

• Gay rights movement : Mattachine Society of New York records 1951-1976

• The Gay Rights movement

• Great events from history : gay, lesbian, bisexual, transgender events, 1848-2006

• Witness to revolution : the Advocate reports on gay and lesbian politics, 1967-1999

• Stonewall, Duberman, Martin B.

• After Stonewall [videorecording]

• Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution

Other resources about the Stonewall Riots [and LGBT liberation in general] available in the Penn State Libraries include:

• Secreaming queens : the riot at Compton's Cafeteria [videorecording]

• Generation Q : gays, lesbians, and bisexuals born around 1969's Stonewall riots tell their stories of groing up in the age of information

• The question of equality : lesbian and gay politics in America since Stonewall

• Stonewall 25 : global voices of pride and protest [videorecording]

• Before Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community [videorecording]

• Smash the church, smash the state! : the early years of gay liberation

• Gay America : struggle for equality

• Gay power : an American revolution