Dewey's Sit-in in Philadelphia, 1965, by Marc Stein

In 1965 Drum magazine called it “the first sit-in of its kind in the history of the United States.” To honor the fiftieth anniversary of this major act of LGBT resistance, Marc Stein presented reports of the sit-in at Dewey’s restaurant in Center City, Philadelphia, which began on April 25, 1965. Staged by three teenagers, it protested discrimination against "homosexuals,” “masculine women,” “feminine men,” and “persons wearing non-conformist clothing.” First Published on OutHistory on April 20, 2015.

Bibliography

Select Bibliography of Secondary Sources

D’Emilio, John, Sexual Politics, Sexual Communities: The Making of A Homosexual Minority in the United States, 1940-1970 (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1983), 174.

Simon, Ray, “Revisiting A Pre-Stonewall LGBT Sit-In,” Philadelphia Gay News, 30 Oct. 2014, http://www.epgn.com/news/local/8098-revisitng-a-pre-stonewall-lgbt-sit-in.

Skiba, Bob, “Dewey’s Sit-In,” The Philadelphia Gayborhood Guru Blog, 28 Jan. 2013, https://thegayborhoodguru.wordpress.com/tag/deweys-sit-in/.

Stein, Marc, City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-72 (Chicago: Univ. of Chicago Press, 2000; 2nd edition with new preface, Philadelphia: Temple Univ. Press, 2004), 62, 67, 245-247, 285, 317.

Stein, Marc, "Recalling Dewey's Sit-In," Philadelphia Gay News, 29 Apr. 2005, 10, 22-23. Reprinted as "The First Gay Sit-In," History News Network, 9 May 2005, http://hnn.us/articles/11652.html.

Stein, Marc, Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (New York: Routledge, 2012), 77, 81.

Stryker, Susan, “It’s Your History: Use It!” Left in SF Blog, 2 Oct. 2007, http://leftinsf.com/blog/index.php/archives/2236.

Stryker, Susan, Transgender History (Berkeley: Seal, 2008), 62-63, 83.

Marc Stein:
Biography: Marc Stein is a historian of sexuality, a political activist, and an award-winning teacher, writer, editor, and scholar. He earned a B.A. from Wesleyan University in 1985 and a Ph.D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1994. After twenty years of teaching at Bryn Mawr College in Pennsylvania, Colby College in Maine, and York University in Toronto, he was appointed the Jamie and Phyllis Pasker Professor of History at San Francisco State University in 2014. The author of City of Sisterly and Brotherly Loves: Lesbian and Gay Philadelphia, 1945-1972 (University of Chicago Press, 2000), Sexual Injustice: Supreme Court Decisions from Griswold to Roe (University of North Carolina Press, 2010), and Rethinking the Gay and Lesbian Movement (Routledge, 2012), he also served as the editor-in-chief of the three volume Encyclopedia of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender History in America (Scribners, 2003). Stein is the former editor of Gay Community News in Boston, the former chair of the American Historical Association’s Committee on Lesbian and Gay History, and the current chair of the Organization of American Historians’ Committee on the Status of LGBTQ Historians and Histories.