Martin Duberman - Stonewall. El origen de una revuelta (ES)

The early hours of June 28, 1969, changed the lives of the six protagonists of this book, but they also changed the lives of those of us born years later into a world shaped by their echoes—and especially those of us who, in this new context, have sought to continue the struggle along the long road still ahead, taking up the baton from that Stonewall Uprising which remains a touchstone fifty years later. 
“The first Gay Pride was a riot,” a T-shirt rightly declares, reminding us that early Pride events were not about the “pink capitalism” and endorsement of the status quo we see today; rather, participants risked their physical safety and, in many cases, their social standing. Yet Stonewall was more than just the five days of protests outside the bar following that botched police raid. It encompassed decades of intense, contested struggle for same-sex desire in the US and Central Europe. It was the grassroots work of activist groups. It was the daily resistance and survival of people rejected by society for being poor, trans, and/or non-white. 
And it was about refusing to let it end with just a riot: it involved organizing new collectives and new forms of struggle that brought improvements for some and similar hardships for others, establishing a new framework for activism that—with some changes—continues to this day. 
With this work, we also aim to dismantle the “Stonewall myth”—the narrative that portrays it as an uprising led by young, white, cisgender gay men who were “conventionally” handsome and “liberated.” In short, a story told by its primary beneficiaries. Racialized trans people gave it their all alongside street sex workers and lesbians of every stripe; nor was there a lack of queer people—who had previously been fighting covertly within anarchist, autonomous, anti-war, communist, or racial liberation groups—eager to also fight for the causes that resonated most directly with them. Above all, the goal was to demonstrate the potential for struggle and revolt possessed by those of us living in the shadow of the cis-heteropatriarchy. The Stonewall experience ignited a fire that many later sought to douse, yet one that was, is, and will remain difficult to extinguish completely. We trust that the publication of this book in Spanish will serve as yet another spark to fan those flames.