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Title:

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.

Subject:

Gay liberation movement--United States--History.
Homosexuality--United States--History--20th century.
Lesbianism--United States--History--20th century.
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Documentary films.

Other Authors:

Rosenberg, Robert, 1955-
Scagliotti, John.
Schiller, Greta.
Brown, Rita Mae.
Lorde, Audre.
Hay, Harry.
Gittings, Barbara, 1932-2007.
Ginsberg, Allen, 1926-1997.
Daughton, Bill.
Before Stonewall, Inc.
Alternative Media Information Center (New York, N.Y.)
First-Run Features (Firm)

Notes:

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.

UPC:

720229911030

Locations:

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)