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Genre/Form: | Documentary films Feature films Historical films History Internet videos Nonfiction films |
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Material Type: | Clipart/images/graphics, Internet resource, Videorecording |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File, Visual material |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Greta Schiller; Robert Rosenberg; John Scagliotti; Rita Mae Brown; Bill Daughton; Jan Kraepelin; Sandi Sissel; Cathy Zheutlin; Before Stonewall, Inc.,; Alternative Media Information Center (New York, N.Y.), |
OCLC Number: | 897771795 |
Credits: | Editor, Bill Daughton ; cinematographers, Jan Kraepelin, Sandi Sissel, Cathy Zheutlin. |
Performer(s): | Narrator, Rita Mae Brown. |
Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file (approximately 87 min.)) : sound, color with black and white sequences |
Other Titles: | Before Stonewall (Motion picture) Making of a gay and lesbian community |
Responsibility: | director, Greta Schiller ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; produced by Before Stonewall, Inc. in association with Alternative Media Information Center. |
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Abstract:
In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door--setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement, from the events that led to the fevered 1969 riots to many other milestones in the brave fight for acceptance. Experience the fascinating and unforgettable, decade-by-decade history of homosexuality in America through eye-opening historical footage and amazing interviews with those who lived through an often brutal closeted history.

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- Gays -- United States -- Social conditions -- History -- 20th century.
- Homophobia -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Gay community -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Gay liberation movement -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- World War, 1939-1945 -- Participation, Gay.
- Gay bars -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Riots -- New York (State) -- New York.
- Greenwich Village (New York, N.Y.)
- Gay liberation movement.
- Gay bars.
- Gay community.
- Gays -- Social conditions.
- Homophobia.
- Riots.
- New York (State) -- New York.
- New York (State) -- New York -- Greenwich Village.
- United States.