To read further on the arc of LGBT civil rights struggles in the U.S. check out:
Dudley Clendinen and Adam Nagourney. Out for Good: the Struggle to Build a Gay Rights Movement in America.
David Eisenbach. Gay Power: an American Revolution.
John D'Emilio. Sexual politics, Sexual Communities: the Making of a Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970.
Linda Hirshman. Victory: the Triumphant Gay Revolution.
Eric Marcus. Making Gay History: the Half-Century Fight for Lesbian and Gay Equal Rights.
Or the Library’s 1969: The Year of Gay Liberation exhibition online.