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Genre/Form: | Documentaries and Factual Films Nonfiction films Documentary films History Video recordings for the hearing impaired Documentaires Films autres que de fiction Vidéos pour personnes handicapées auditives |
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Material Type: | Videorecording |
Document Type: | Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
John Scagliotti; Greta Schiller; Robert Rosenberg; Rita Mae Brown; Audre Lorde; Harry Hay; Barbara Gittings; Allen Ginsberg; Bill Daughton; Andrew Kopkind; Yvonne Flowers; Jewelle Gomez; Before Stonewall, Inc.; Alternative Media Information Center (New York, N.Y.); Corporation for Public Broadcasting.; First-Run Features (Firm) |
OCLC Number: | 1039397103 |
Notes: | Documentary. Videodisc release of the 1985 documentary film; originally produced in 1984. Special features: Interview with Allen Ginsberg by Andrew Kopkind featuring two poems (1984); Interview with Audre Lord and Yvonne Flowers by Jewel Gomez (Fall, 1984); "The Black Cat:/Jose Sarria" film of reunion of the Black Cat community (a San Francisco nightclub), 20 years after its closing. |
Credits: | Archival research director, Andrea Weiss ; editor, Bill Daughton ; cinematographers, Jan Kraepelin, Sandi Sissel, Cathy Zheutlin. |
Performer(s): | Narrator, Rita Mae Brown ; featuring Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg [and others]. |
Description: | 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
Details: | DVD; region 1, NTSC. |
Other Titles: | Making of a gay and lesbian community Gay and lesbian community |
Responsibility: | executive producer, John Scagliotti ; director, Greta Schiller ; co-director, Robert Rosenberg ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; produced by Before Stonewall, Inc. in association with Alternative Media Information Center ; Corporation for Public Broadcasting. |
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Abstract:
Traces the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969; the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City; and the three-day riot that followed.

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- Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History.
- Homosexuality -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Lesbianism -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
- Homosexualité -- États-Unis -- Histoire -- 20e siècle.
- Émeutes de Stonewall, New York, N.Y., 1969.
- Gay liberation movement.
- Homosexuality.
- Lesbianism.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- United States.