Two documentary films. Subtitle from container. Narrators, Rita Mae Brown (Before Stonewall), Melissa Etheridge (After Stonewall).
Contents:
After Stonewall / producer/writer, John Scagliotti ; co-producers/archival directors, Janet W. Baus, Dan Hunt ; writer/historical researcher, Andrew Podell ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary, Susan Walsh ; executive producers, Vic Basile, John Scagliotti (1999; 88 min.). After Stonewall / producer/writer, John Scagliotti ; co-producers/archival directors, Janet W. Baus, Dan Hunt ; writer/historical researcher, Andrew Podell ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary, Susan Walsh ; executive producers, Vic Basile, John Scagliotti (1999; 88 min.). Special features for Before Stonewall: Allen Ginsberg -- Audre Lorde -- The Black Cat/Jose Sarria. Special features for After Stonewall: Interview with director John Scagliotti -- Dorothy Allison and Jewelle Gomez on Vito Russo -- Armistead Maupin on PBS and the Christian right -- Congressman Barney Frank on post-Stonewallian stories of travel -- Jewelle Gomez on poetry as a galvanizing force -- Dorothy Allison on making an alternative family.
Summary:
Before Stonewall presents the story of the gay and lesbian experience in the United States since the 1920s. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots that followed the police raid of a gay bar in New York's Greenwich Village. After Stonewall traces the gay rights movement in America from the 1969 raid on the Stonwall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, through the 1990s.
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