Before Stonewall : : the Making of a gay and Lesbian Community
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Documentary.
Videodisc release of the 1985 documentary film.
Special features: two poems by Allen Ginsberg; never before seen footage; interviews.
Narrator, Rita Mae Brown.
Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg.
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.
DVD.
COMMUNITY REVIEWS
good queer history submitted by lisa on July 26, 2018, 12:32pm Not much as a film, I guess, but effective.
PUBLISHED
New York, NY : First Run Features, [200-?]
Year Published:
Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Language: English
Format: DVD
ADDITIONAL CREDITS
Rosenberg, Robert, 1955-
Scagliotti, John.
Schiller, Greta.
Brown, Rita Mae.
Lorde, Audre.
Hay, Harry.
Gittings, Barbara, 1932-
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Daughton, Bill.
Before Stonewall, Inc.
Alternative Media Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
First-Run Features (Firm)
SUBJECTS
Gay liberation movement -- History.
Homosexuality -- History -- 20th century.
Lesbianism -- History -- 20th century.
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Documentary films.