Before Stonewall [videorecording] : the making of a gay and lesbian community / produced by Before Stonewall, Inc. in association with Alternative Media Information Center ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; director, Greta Schiller.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
First Run Features,
Copyright Date:
200-?
Description:
1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Documentary. Narrator, Rita Mae Brown. Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg. Videodisc release of the 1985 documentary film. Special features: two poems by Allen Ginsberg; never before seen footage; interviews.
Summary:
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.
This resource is supported by the Institute of Museum and Library Services under the provisions of the Library Services and Technology Act as administered by State Library of Iowa.