According to the blurb from the publisher: Duberman does all this within a narrative framework of novelistic immediacy. In 1969, police raids at Stonewall were common, says Duberman, who was not there on the night of the raid but was closely involved in the organizing that followed. Duberman is a master at weaving together stories of individual lives to write history. Stonewall refers to the riots that occurred from June 27-July 2, 1969 in and around the Stonewall bar in Greenwich Village. would probably find this of use as a reference. On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall, a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village, was raided by police. Expertly weaving personal, eyewitness accounts of the riots, Martin Duberman’s Stonewall is an engrossing look at how six individuals, from … The book is good as a history and would imagine a student interested in LGBTQ+ people, issues, histories, of Stonewall in particular, etc. The five days of rioting that ensued changed forever the face of gay and lesbian life. Author Duberman chronicles the lives of six people and their lives and how their lives intersect at the Stonewall riots. He chose six disparate individuals - four men and two women - to tell the story of the development of the Gay Rights Movement. Martin Duberman states that he wanted to place Stonewall along a timeline of events instead of the Stonewall Inn demonstrations being the launching point of gay civil rights history. Inspired by the memoir of the same title by gay historian Martin Duberman, Stonewall is a fictionalized account of the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots, a seminal event in the modern American gay rights movement. 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. The film stars Guillermo Díaz, Frederick Weller, Brendan Corbalis, and Duane Boutte. But instead of submitting to the routine compliance the NYPD expected, patrons and a growing crowd decided to fight back. In Stonewall, renowned historian and activist Martin Duberman tells the full story of this pivotal moment in history.