marc stein, your reaction?> yes, well, my book reprints 30 media reports and other accounts of the stonewall riots from 1969. and it is quite interesting to see that the first accounts provided by the "new york times," daily news and new york, "new york post" referred to the rioters as homosexuals or young homosexuals, but within a voice, the lgbt press were the leading role by what were transvestites referred to, or street queens. the most extensive coverage was in the local gay newsletter, a local gay rights organization. interestingly the trans-periodicals of the today. they didn't cover the riots, but the gay-oriented newsletter emphasized the prominent role played by street queens and drag queens in the riots. things are quite complicated. we also have the issue of translation 250 years later. today we tend to police the boundaries between gay and trans, but in 1969 many people were comfortable referring to themselves as both gay and transvestites. they didn't see the things necessarily in opposition or as

eastern on american history tv on c-span3. >>> historian marc stein is the editor of the stonewall riots a documentary history and up next a look at some of his documentary followed by a conversation with mr. stein about the 1969 stonewall riots which were a key turning point in the gay rights movement. >> having to lie, i feel, is the saddest and the ugliest part of being a homosexual, when you have your first bad love experience and you can't go to your brother or your sister and say i'm

host: author, historian, and history professor at san francisco state university, marc stein, who isoining us from chris river street in greenw