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| Genre/Form: | Documentary films Feature films History |
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| Material Type: | Videorecording |
| Document Type: | Visual material |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Greta Schiller; Robert Rosenberg; John Scagliotti; Rita Mae Brown; Media Network (U.S.) |
| Language Note: | Original production: c1984. |
| OCLC Number: | 20677119 |
| Notes: | VHS format [NTSC]. "MP 1669." |
| Credits: | Editor, Bill Daughton. |
| Performer(s): | Rita Mae Brown. |
| Description: | 1 videocassette (87 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 1/2 in. |
| Details: | VHS. |
| Contents: | A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement. |
| Responsibility: | producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; directors, Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg ; produced in association with Media Network. |
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A social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group. Tells how a group consciousness coalesced after the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed gained them national publicity and the birth of the gay movement.
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