And Then I Danced: Traveling the Road to LGBT Equality [Hardcover]

Activist Mark Segal, who was present at Stonewall and later went on to found the Much this book focuses on his work, but the more telling pages are filled with love gained and lost, raising other peoples children, finding himself, and aging in the gay community. A must-read. Read about Stonewall from someone who was there: Segal moved to New York just in time to participate in the movement, and began a long and storied career as an activist during the riots. Segals book has been described as part autobiography, part history lesson. He grounds the history with a moving glimpse into the lives of his struggling but dignified, and, in their own modest way, heroic parents. The historical sections recount Segals clever interventions to save America from its addiction to hate, and to empower strait and gay allies who were ready and eager to help but were just waiting for an opening . . . Time and again, Segal found a way to provide that opening in the vast wall of silence.