They would bang on the trucks. So if any one of you, have let yourself become involved with an adult homosexual, or with another boy, and you're doing this on a regular basis, you better stop quick. The documentary shows how homosexual people enjoyed and shared with each other. Hunted, hunted, sometimes we were hunted. David Carter, Author ofStonewall:There was also vigilantism, people were using walkie-talkies to coordinate attacks on gay men. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt John O'Brien:And deep down I believed because I was gay and couldn't speak out for my rights, was probably one of the reasons that I was so active in the Civil Rights Movement. The very idea of being out, it was ludicrous. So you couldn't have a license to practice law, you couldn't be a licensed doctor. I mean it didn't stop after that. I famously used the word "fag" in the lead sentence I said "the forces of faggotry." Martha Shelley:When I was growing up in the '50s, I was supposed to get married to some guy, produce, you know, the usual 2.3 children, and I could look at a guy and say, "Well, objectively he's good looking," but I didn't feel anything, just didn't make any sense to me. Virginia Apuzzo:What we felt in isolation was a growing sense of outrage and fury particularly because we looked around and saw so many avenues of rebellion. But I was just curious, I didn't want to participate because number one it was so packed. I wanted to kill those cops for the anger I had in me. ", Martin Boyce:People in the neighborhood, the most unlikely people were starting to support it. And so Howard said, "We've got police press passes upstairs." Dick Leitsch:So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. Everyone from the street kids who were white and black kids from the South. Leroy S. Mobley The windows were always cloaked. Barak Goodman Except for the few mob-owned bars that allowed some socializing, it was basically for verboten. Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. Lauren Noyes. First Run Features [7] In 1987, the film won Emmy Awards for Best Historical/Cultural Program and Best Research. Martha Shelley:We participated in demonstrations in Philadelphia at Independence Hall. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:And I keep listening and listening and listening, hoping I'm gonna hear sirens any minute and I was very freaked. Martin Boyce:All of a sudden, Miss New Orleans and all people around us started marching step by step and the police started moving back. Atascadero was known in gay circles as the Dachau for queers, and appropriately so. The events of that night have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement. "Daybreak Express" by D.A. You see, Ralph was a homosexual. John O'Brien:Whenever you see the cops, you would run away from them. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. People cheer while standing in front of The Stonewall Inn as the annual Gay Pride parade passes, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in New York. And when you got a word, the word was homosexuality and you looked it up. Charles Harris, Transcriptions Homosexuality was a dishonorable discharge in those days, and you couldn't get a job afterwards. 400 Plankinton Ave. Compton's Cafeteria Raid, San Francisco, California, 1966 Coopers Do-Nut Raid, Los Angeles, California, 1959 Pepper Hill Club Raid, Baltimore, Maryland in 1955. Dick Leitsch:And I remember it being a clear evening with a big black sky and the biggest white moon I ever saw. Susan Liberti So I attempted suicide by cutting my wrists. Stonewall Uprising Program Transcript Slate: In 1969, homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois. The men's room was under police surveillance. Tom Caruso View in iTunes. Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. I didn't think I could have been any prettier than that night. And it's that hairpin trigger thing that makes the riot happen. And the Stonewall was part of that system. Gay people were told we didn't have any of that. The Stonewall riots, as they came to be known, marked a major turning point in the modern gay civil rights movement in the United States and around the world. Before Stonewall 1984 Directed by Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg Synopsis New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. Greenwich Village's Stonewall Inn has undergone several transformations in the decades since it was the focal point of a three-day riot in 1969. And that's what it was, it was a war. And I said to myself, "Oh my God, this will not last.". Martha Shelley Stonewall Forever is a documentary from NYC's LGBT Community Center directed by Ro Haber. This 19-year-old serviceman left his girlfriend on the beach to go to a men's room in a park nearby where he knew that he could find a homosexual contact. Well, little did he know that what was gonna to happen later on was to make history. It was an age of experimentation. And the first gay power demonstration to my knowledge was against my story inThe Village Voiceon Wednesday. And when she grabbed that everybody knew she couldn't do it alone so all the other queens, Congo Woman, queens like that started and they were hitting that door. And that, that was a very haunting issue for me. The severity of the punishment varies from state to state. Danny Garvin:Everybody would just freeze or clam up. Doric Wilson To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. Paul Bosche Pamela Gaudiano We could lose our memory from the beating, we could be in wheelchairs like some were. Just let's see if they can. Clever. Queer was very big. Yvonne Ritter:And then everybody started to throw pennies like, you know, this is what they were, they were nothing but copper, coppers, that's what they were worth. And here they were lifting things up and fighting them and attacking them and beating them. Jerry Hoose:I was afraid it was over. Stonewall Forever Explore the monument Watch the documentary Download the AR app About & FAQ Privacy Policy The medical experimentation in Atascadero included administering, to gay people, a drug that simulated the experience of drowning; in other words, a pharmacological example of waterboarding. There's a little door that slides open with this power-hungry nut behind that, you see this much of your eyes, and he sees that much of your face, and then he decides whether you're going to get in. It was tremendous freedom. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We had maybe six people and by this time there were several thousand outside. Quentin Heilbroner Frank Simon's documentary follows the drag contestants of 1967's Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, capturing plenty of on- and offstage drama along the way. Because as the police moved back, we were conscious, all of us, of the area we were controlling and now we were in control of the area because we were surrounded the bar, we were moving in, they were moving back. The Mafia owned the jukeboxes, they owned the cigarette machines and most of the liquor was off a truck hijacking. Danny Garvin:Something snapped. Barney Karpfinger Now, 50 years later, the film is back. Andy Frielingsdorf, Reenactment Actors The ones that came close you could see their faces in rage. That this was normal stuff. That's what gave oxygen to the fire. But you live with it, you know, you're used to this, after the third time it happened, or, the third time you heard about it, that's the way the world is. It was a down at a heels kind of place, it was a lot of street kids and things like that. They are taught that no man is born homosexual and many psychiatrists now believe that homosexuality begins to form in the first three years of life. But the before section, I really wanted people to have a sense of what it felt like to be gay, lesbian, transgender, before Stonewall and before you have this mass civil rights movement that comes after Stonewall. But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. So in every gay pride parade every year, Stonewall lives. Abstract. Patricia Yusah, Marketing and Communications Beginning of our night out started early. and someone would say, "Well, they're still fighting the police, let's go," and they went in. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Well, we did use the small hoses on the fire extinguishers. Maureen Jordan It was a 100% profit, I mean they were stealing the liquor, then watering it down, and they charging twice as much as they charged one door away at the 55. Fred Sargeant:The effect of the Stonewall riot was to change the direction of the gay movement. Jorge Garcia-Spitz Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:All of a sudden, in the background I heard some police cars. Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives I made friends that first day. If there's one place in the world where you can dance and feel yourself fully as a person and that's threatened with being taken away, those words are fighting words. And as awful as people might think that sounds, it's the way history has always worked. David Alpert And I think it's both the alienation, also the oppression that people suffered. You knew you could ruin them for life. That night, we printed a box, we had 5,000. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:Gay people who were sentenced to medical institutions because they were found to be sexual psychopaths, were subjected sometimes to sterilization, occasionally to castration, sometimes to medical procedures, such as lobotomies, which were felt by some doctors to cure homosexuality and other sexual diseases. Eventually something was bound to blow. Then the cops come up and make use of what used to be called the bubble-gum machine, back then a cop car only had one light on the top that spun around. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:At a certain point, it felt pretty dangerous to me but I noticed that the cop that seemed in charge, he said you know what, we have to go inside for safety. The cops were barricaded inside. Fred Sargeant:Someone at this point had apparently gone down to the cigar stand on the corner and got lighter fluid.
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