About 1,000 copies of The New York Daily News on the day that became the Stonewall Riot copied by hand from microfilm records 1997

Every day for ten months, Mathew Jones laboriously copied by hand every word, photograph and advertisement of the Daily News on 27 June 1969, reproducing the mundane newspaper in its entirety. The date is significant only in its insignificance compared to the next day – when police raided a gay bar in New York’s Greenwich Village that sparked several days of rioting. The Stonewall Riots – when patrons fought back against the prejudice and violence of police – is considered one of the pivotal defining moments for the modern lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, queer, intersex and asexual movement. Rather than depicting the reverberations of the riot, Jones chronicles the environment that manufactured the riot; not the political environment, but the mundane reality of the era.