In 1930, Chicago's Eyncourt Press published a pseudonymous autobiography by Mary Casal titled The Stone Wall, which detailed in a matter-of-fact way her life as a lesbian from the 1860s to 1930—from thinking she was the only one in the world who had feelings such as hers to the search for and discovery of Juno, her soul mate. Some activists have said that her book may have been the namesake of the Stonewall, the dyke dive in Greenwich Village that later became a bar for young transvestites and flamed into gay history with the 1969 Stonewall Riots.
From Out and Proud in Chicago: An Overview of the City's Gay Community, edited by Tracy Baim, Surrey Books, 2008.
