Reading Stonewall
The Librarian Is In
The New York Public Library
4.7 • 595 Ratings
🗓️ 2 May 2019
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
It's the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, and Jason Baumann—NYPL curator and Grand Marquessa of All Things Stonewall—joins Gwen and Frank to discuss the Library's new anthology about the uprising and its role in the LGBTQ civil rights movement. And then he walks us through some yoga breathing, and it's legit.
Book Recommendations
The Stonewall Reader in our catalog and the NYPL shop
Love and Resistance: Out of the Closet Into the Stonewall Era in our catalog and the NYPL shop
City of Night by John Rechy
City Boy: My Life in New York during the 1960s and 70s (and more books) by Edmund White
The History and Practices of Hatha Yoga by James Mallinson
Also mentioned:
Kay Tobin Lahusen's photographs in our Archives & Manuscripts Division
Jason's first appearance on The Librarian Is In (episode 2!)
And check out more of the exhibition and the rest of the Library's Stonewall coverage at nypl.org/stonewall50.
Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | Hey, everybody and welcome to the librarians in the New York Public Libraries |
| 0:16.3 | podcast about books, culture, we can get around to it. |
| 0:20.3 | And what to read next, which we pretty much do okay. |
| 0:23.5 | I'm Frank. I'm Gwen. And we are very happy to have a really special guest, actually a repeat. |
| 0:32.1 | You of course remember Jason Bauman. Here he is. Hi. Hi. He's the, what's your title? Assistant Director for Collection Development |
| 0:41.0 | at the New York Public Library. Gwen, help me. Informally, I think that your title for the last few |
| 0:49.3 | months has also been the King of Stonewall as well. Or coordinator of the library's LGBTQ initiative. Well, you could say that, but I prefer the King of Stonewall. Or the queen of Stonewall. Right, right. Why be the ruler of Stonewall? The Marquist. The Marquist. The Marquess of Stonewall. I never know how to pronounce that. Neither did I. I always said it was Marquis, and then I heard someone say Marquist. Maybe that's a British. Marquesa? Marquesa. Marquesa. The Dowager, the Stonewall Dowager. You're the Dowager. What is that Maggie Smith and Doughtby? The Dowager Countess. The Dowager Countess. That's what you are. |
| 1:30.6 | The Dowager Countess of Stonewall. Of course, Dowager means very old. |
| 1:34.7 | Why don't... Which you're not. |
| 1:38.2 | It's been a long few months. Well, why don't you explain what is going on with Stonewall and the library? |
| 1:43.4 | So, near Public Library has this exhibition, |
| 1:46.0 | Love and Resistance, that opened on February 14th |
| 1:50.0 | and showcases LGBT history and culture from the 1960s and 70s |
| 1:56.0 | and tries to show how Stonewall was a turning point |
| 1:59.0 | in that history, focusing on nightlife, protests, |
| 2:04.6 | the rise of the queer press, and depictions of love and romance in that era. |
| 2:10.6 | And in addition, we have a whole mess of programs, 30 programs in the branches over the course of the show, as well as programs at |
| 2:20.0 | SASB and at Schaumburg Center. |
| 2:23.0 | And then we published two books, so Love and Resistance, which is a book of photos |
| 2:28.4 | by Kay Tobin-Lewson and Diana Davies that are sort of the foundation of the show and the Stonewall Reader, |
| 2:35.5 | which is out today with Penguin Classics and his anthology of writings from the 1960s and 70s, |
| 2:41.7 | particularly firsthand accounts of Stonewall and the activism before and after. |
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