Narrator (Archival):Do you want your son enticed into the world of homosexuals, or your daughter lured into lesbianism? Stonewall Forever Explore the monument Watch the documentary Download the AR app About & FAQ Privacy Policy Dick Leitsch:So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. They were to us. Beginning of our night out started early. All kinds of designers, boxers, big museum people. Martin Boyce:It was thrilling. John O'Brien:I knew that the words that were being said to put down people, was about me. Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement. Fred Sargeant:In the '60s, I met Craig Rodwell who was running the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. Liz Davis The film combined personal interviews, snapshots and home movies, together with historical footage. You cut one head off. Stacker put together a timeline of LGBTQ+ history leading up to Stonewall, beginning with prehistoric events and ending in the late 1960s. Calling 'em names, telling 'em how good-looking they were, grabbing their butts. Yvonne Ritter:I had just turned 18 on June 27, 1969. Other images in this film are And the cops got that. And the police escalated their crackdown on bars because of the reelection campaign. Naturally, you get careless, you fall for it, and the next thing you know, you have silver bracelets on both arms. Before Stonewall : Throughline : NPR And we were singing: "We are the Village girls, we wear our hair in curls, we wear our dungarees, above our nellie knees." Revealing and. John O'Brien:I was with a group that we actually took a parking meter out of theground, three or four people, and we used it as a battering ram. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips . William Eskridge, Professor of Law:The Stonewall riots came at a central point in history. That night, we printed a box, we had 5,000. Alexis Charizopolis At least if you had press, maybe your head wouldn't get busted. I just thought you had to get through this, and I thought I could get through it, but you really had to be smart about it. People could take shots at us. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown, directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, and co-produced by John Scagliotti and Rosenberg, and Schiller. Frank Kameny, co-founder of the Mattachine Society, and Shirley Willer, president of the Daughters of Bilitis, spoke to Marcus about being gay before the Stonewall riots happened and what motivated people who were involved in the movement. Homosexuality was a dishonorable discharge in those days, and you couldn't get a job afterwards. They were supposed to be weak men, limp-wristed. Gay people were never supposed to be threats to police officers. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Well, I had to act like I wasn't nervous. Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations First you gotta get past the door. And, you know,The Village Voiceat that point started using the word "gay.". Noah Goldman Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:It was getting worse and worse. Slate:The Homosexuals(1967), CBS Reports. Raymond Castro:There were mesh garbage cans being lit up on fire and being thrown at the police. Martin Boyce:Oh, Miss New Orleans, she wouldn't be stopped. New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. Cop (Archival):Anyone can walk into that men's room, any child can walk in there, and see what you guys were doing. But the before section, I really wanted people to have a sense of what it felt like to be gay, lesbian, transgender, before Stonewall and before you have this mass civil rights movement that comes after Stonewall. The award winning film 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. As you read, keep in mind that LGBTQ+ is a relatively new term and, while queer people have always existed, the terminology has changed frequently over the years. Transcript of Re-Release: The Stonewall | Happy Scribe And I found them in the movie theatres, sitting there, next to them. Leaflets in the 60s were like the internet, today. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, activists rode their motorcycles during the city's 1989 gay-pride parade. The Stonewall had reopened. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community I mean you got a major incident going on down there and I didn't see any TV cameras at all. It was a leaflet that attacked the relationship of the police and the Mafia and the bars that we needed to see ended. In the Life And then they send them out in the street and of course they did make arrests, because you know, there's all these guys who cruise around looking for drag queens. The lights came on, it's like stop dancing. It's very American to say, "You promised equality, you promised freedom." This Restored Documentary Examines What LGBTQ Lives Were Like Before Martha Babcock American Airlines And they wore dark police uniforms and riot helmets and they had billy clubs and they had big plastic shields, like Roman army, and they actually formed a phalanx, and just marched down Christopher Street and kind of pushed us in front of them. Because its all right in the Village, but the minute we cross 14th street, if there's only ten of us, God knows what's going to happen to us.". Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations What finally made sense to me was the first time I kissed a woman and I thought, "Oh, this is what it's about." It's a history that people feel a huge sense of ownership over. Eric Marcus, Writer:It was incredibly hot. TV Host (Archival):That's a very lovely dress too that you're wearing Simone. ITN Source Katrina Heilbroner 400 Plankinton Ave. Compton's Cafeteria Raid, San Francisco, California, 1966 Coopers Do-Nut Raid, Los Angeles, California, 1959 Pepper Hill Club Raid, Baltimore, Maryland in 1955. A few of us would get dressed up in skirts and blouses and the guys would all have to wear suits and ties. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:They were sexual deviates. Even non-gay people. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:In states like New York, there were a whole basket of crimes that gay people could be charged with. Martha Shelley And in a sense the Stonewall riots said, "Get off our backs, deliver on the promise." The events that took place in June 1969 have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement, but that's only partially true. And if we catch you, involved with a homosexual, your parents are going to know about it first. Virginia Apuzzo: I grew up with that. If there's one place in the world where you can dance and feel yourself fully as a person and that's threatened with being taken away, those words are fighting words. There's a little door that slides open with this power-hungry nut behind that, you see this much of your eyes, and he sees that much of your face, and then he decides whether you're going to get in. And there was like this tension in the air and it just like built and built. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement . Because one out of three of you will turn queer. Franco Sacchi, Additional Animation and Effects Joe DeCola Danny Garvin:There was more anger and more fight the second night. John O'Brien:And deep down I believed because I was gay and couldn't speak out for my rights, was probably one of the reasons that I was so active in the Civil Rights Movement. The term like "authority figures" wasn't used back then, there was just "Lily Law," "Patty Pig," "Betty Badge." This was ours, here's where the Stonewall was, here's our Mecca. Almost anything you could name. People cheer while standing in front of The Stonewall Inn as the annual Gay Pride parade passes, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in New York. Everyone from the street kids who were white and black kids from the South. Vanessa Ezersky She was awarded the first ever Emmy Award for Research for her groundbreaking work on Before Stonewall. But everybody knew it wasn't normal stuff and everyone was on edge and that was the worst part of it because you knew they were on edge and you knew that the first shot that was fired meant all the shots would be fired. Martha Shelley:We participated in demonstrations in Philadelphia at Independence Hall. A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. Richard Enman (Archival):Well, let me say, first of all, what type of laws we are not after, because there has been much to-do that the Society was in favor of the legalization of marriage between homosexuals, and the adoption of children, and such as that, and that is not at all factual at all. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. And that crowd between Howard Johnson's and Mama's Chik-n-Rib was like the basic crowd of the gay community at that time in the Village. Doric Wilson:And I looked back and there were about 2,000 people behind us, and that's when I knew it had happened. Dick Leitsch:Very often, they would put the cops in dresses, with makeup and they usually weren't very convincing. One time, a bunch of us ran into somebody's car and locked the door and they smashed the windows in. Urban Stages It was a way to vent my anger at being repressed. Narrator (Archival):Note how Albert delicately pats his hair, and adjusts his collar. A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. Martin Boyce:The day after the first riot, when it was all over, and I remember sitting, sun was soon to come, and I was sitting on the stoop, and I was exhausted and I looked at that street, it was dark enough to allow the street lamps to pick up the glitter of all the broken glass, and all the debris, and all the different colored cloth, that was in different places. A lot of them had been thrown out of their families. Audience Member (Archival):I was wondering if you think that there are any quote "happy homosexuals" for whom homosexuality would be, in a way, their best adjustment in life? 1969: The Stonewall Uprising - Library of Congress Before Stonewall - Rotten Tomatoes Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:What they did in the Stonewall that night. And, I did not like parading around while all of these vacationers were standing there eating ice cream and looking at us like we were critters in a zoo. Transcript Aired June 9, 2020 Stonewall Uprising The Year That Changed America Film Description When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of. [00:00:58] Well, this I mean, this is a part of my own history in this weird, inchoate sense. Before Stonewall - Letterboxd William Eskridge, Professor of Law: The 1960s were dark ages for lesbians and gay men all over America. It's the first time I'm fully inside the Stonewall. One was the 1845 statute that made it a crime in the state to masquerade. And they were gay. Before Stonewall 1984 Unrated 1 h 27 m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 1.1K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:21 1 Video 7 Photos Documentary History The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. Director . John O'Brien:All of a sudden, the police faced something they had never seen before. But you live with it, you know, you're used to this, after the third time it happened, or, the third time you heard about it, that's the way the world is. For those kisses. Virginia Apuzzo:It's very American to say, "This is not right." Andy Frielingsdorf, Reenactment Actors Mike Wallace (Archival):Two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:If someone was dressed as a woman, you had to have a female police officer go in with her. Fred Sargeant:Things started off small, but there was an energy that began to flow through the crowd. The events of that night have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement. Dana Kirchoff And you felt bad that you were part of this, when you knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was that? Richard Enman (Archival):Ye - well, that's yes and no. First Run Features Doric Wilson:In those days, the idea of walking in daylight, with a sign saying, "I'm a faggot," was horren--, nobody, nobody was ready to do that. Lauren Noyes. Daily News Dan Bodner Dick Leitsch:We wore suits and ties because we wanted people, in the public, who were wearing suits and ties, to identify with us. Seymour Wishman Mike Wallace (Archival):Dr. Charles Socarides is a New York psychoanalyst at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. We had no speakers planned for the rally in Central Park, where we had hoped to get to. Raymond Castro:So then I got pushed back in, into the Stonewall by these plain clothes cops and they would not let me out, they didn't let anybody out. And when you got a word, the word was homosexuality and you looked it up. Meanwhile, there was crowds forming outside the Stonewall, wanting to know what was going on. Obama signed the memorandum to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Fifty years ago, a gay bar in New York City called The Stonewall Inn was raided by police, and what followed were days of rebellion where protesters and police clashed. So I attempted suicide by cutting my wrists. The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. I would get in the back of the car and they would say, "We're going to go see faggots." They were afraid that the FBI was following them. We could easily be hunted, that was a game. BEFORE STONEWALL - Alliance of Women Film Journalists June 21, 2019 1:29 PM EDT. The mob was saying, you know, "Screw you, cops, you think you can come in a bust us up? Frank Simon's documentary follows the drag contestants of 1967's Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, capturing plenty of on- and offstage drama along the way. Somebody grabbed me by the leg and told me I wasn't going anywhere. And once that happened, the whole house of cards that was the system of oppression of gay people started to crumble. "We're not going.". To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We were looking for secret exits and one of the policewomen was able to squirm through the window and they did find a way out. I learned, very early, that those horrible words were about me, that I was one of those people. For the first time the next person stood up. I mean, I came out in Central Park and other places. From left: "Before Stonewall" director Greta Schiller, executive producer John Scagliotti and co-director Robert Rosenberg in 1985. (158) 7.5 1 h 26 min 1985 13+. On June 28, 1969, New York City police raided a Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, setting off a three-day riot that launched the modern American gay rights movement. I was a man. The medical experimentation in Atascadero included administering, to gay people, a drug that simulated the experience of drowning; in other words, a pharmacological example of waterboarding. I met this guy and I broke down crying in his arms. Where did you buy it? We knew that this was a moment that we didn't want to let slip past, because it was something that we could use to bring more of the groups together. The mayor of New York City, the police commissioner, were under pressure to clean up the streets of any kind of quote unquote "weirdness." Somehow being gay was the most terrible thing you could possibly be. Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. "Don't fire. When we got dressed for that night, we had cocktails and we put the makeup on. John O'Brien:And then somebody started a fire, they started with little lighters and matches. Gay people were not powerful enough politically to prevent the clampdown and so you had a series of escalating skirmishes in 1969. In addition to interviews with activists and scholars, the film includes the reflections of renowned writer Allen Ginsberg. Martin Boyce:We were like a Hydra. His movements are not characteristic of a real boy. You know, all of a sudden, I had brothers and sisters, you know, which I didn't have before. But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. Synopsis. Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries Fred Sargeant:The press did refer to it in very pejorative terms, as a night that the drag queens fought back. Dick Leitsch:Well, gay bars were the social centers of gay life. Judith Kuchar Hugh Bush You see, Ralph was a homosexual. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:There were all these articles in likeLife Magazineabout how the Village was liberal and people that were called homosexuals went there. This was the first time I could actually sense, not only see them fearful, I could sense them fearful. Stonewall Tscript | PDF | Homosexuality | Lgbt I made friends that first day. Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested but, well, he was curious. Abstract. And today we're talking about Stonewall, which were both pretty anxious about so anxious. But I gave it up about, oh I forget, some years ago, over four years ago. Before Stonewall (1984) - IMDb Mayor John Lindsay, like most mayors, wanted to get re-elected. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! There may be some girls here who will turn lesbian. You know, it's just, everybody was there. Yvonne Ritter:And then everybody started to throw pennies like, you know, this is what they were, they were nothing but copper, coppers, that's what they were worth. Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. They are taught that no man is born homosexual and many psychiatrists now believe that homosexuality begins to form in the first three years of life. We didn't necessarily know where we were going yet, you know, what organizations we were going to be or how things would go, but we became something I, as a person, could all of a sudden grab onto, that I couldn't grab onto when I'd go to a subway T-room as a kid, or a 42nd street movie theater, you know, or being picked up by some dirty old man. But we had to follow up, we couldn't just let that be a blip that disappeared. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. And so we had to create these spaces, mostly in the trucks. We heard one, then more and more. MacDonald & Associates Prisoner (Archival):I realize that, but the thing is that for life I'll be wrecked by this record, see? and someone would say, "Well, they're still fighting the police, let's go," and they went in. The police weren't letting us dance. Oddball Film + Video, San Francisco Queer was very big. Jerry Hoose:I remember I was in a paddy wagon one time on the way to jail, we were all locked up together on a chain in the paddy wagon and the paddy wagon stopped for a red light or something and one of the queens said "Oh, this is my stop." Martha Shelley:If you were in a small town somewhere, everybody knew you and everybody knew what you did and you couldn't have a relationship with a member of your own sex, period. by David Carter, Associate Producer and Advisor The music was great, cafes were good, you know, the coffee houses were good. So it was a perfect storm for the police. Based on Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. Review: 'Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community' Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:All of a sudden, in the background I heard some police cars. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:As much as I don't like to say it, there's a place for violence. Just making their lives miserable for once. John O'Brien:We had no idea we were gonna finish the march. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2016 Berlin International All the rules were off in the '60s. Other images in this film are either recreations or drawn from events of the time. But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. I famously used the word "fag" in the lead sentence I said "the forces of faggotry."

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