Stonewall uprising [videorecording] / a Q-Ball Productions film for American Experience ; produced and directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner ; written by David Heilbroner.
Originally broadcast as an episode of the television program The American Experience. Based on the book: Stonewall: the riots that sparked the gay revolution by David Carter.
Summary:
Explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. When police raided a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
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