The Stonewall Reader: Book Launch and Panel Discussion
Thursday, May 2, 6 – 8 PM

Hemispheric Institute of Performance & Politics
20 Cooper Square, Fifth Floor
New York, NY 10003
*Photo ID required to enter NYU buildings. 20 Cooper Square is a wheelchair accessible venue.

Live video broadcast will be available here starting at 6:00 pm (EST)

This event is free and open to the public. RSVP REQUIRED
Join us for the presentation of The Stonewall Reader, a collection of first accounts, diaries, periodic literature, and articles from LGBTQ magazines and newspapers that documented both the years leading up to and the years following the riots. Jason Baumann, editor of the anthology and Assistant Director for Collection Development and Coordinator of Humanities and LGBT Collections at the New York Public Library will introduce the project, with Gonzalo Casals, Executive Director of the Leslie-Lohman Museum, followed by a series of readings from the book by poets, artists, and activists. This program is presented in collaboration with the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics, NYU, The Department of Art & Public Policy, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, and Penguin Classics.

Panelists include Avram Finkelstein, founding member of SILENCE= DEATH and Gran Fury, Flavia Rando, art-historian, activist and teacher at the Lesbian Herstory Archives and Kiyan Williams, multi-disciplinary artist.

The Stonewall Reader will be available for purchase at the event through Strand Book Store.
This panel is presented alongside the exhibition, Art after Stonewall, 1969-1989, on view at the Leslie-Lohman Museum, April 24 through July 21, and at the Grey Art Gallery, New York University, April 24 through July 20. Timed with the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall uprising, is the first major exhibition to examine the impact of the LGBTQ civil-rights movement on the art world.
Image: © Diana Davies, Demonstration at City Hall, New York City, in support of gay rights bill “Intro 475”. 1973. Digital photographic print, 11 x 14 in. Collection of the Leslie-Lohman Museum.