Before Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community / a FirstRun Features presentation ; director, Greta Schiller ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; produced by Before Stonewall, Inc., in association with Alternative Media Information Center.
Publisher:
First Run Features,
Copyright Date:
2004
Description:
1 videodisc (approximately 86 min. for feature, 17 min. for extras) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Narrator, Rita Mae Brown. Interviewees: Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg ... [et al.]. Originally produced as a motion picture in 1984. Special features: three short documentary films with Allen Ginsberg, Audre Lord and Yvonne Flowers, and Jose Sarria of the Black Cat club.
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.