Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:As much as I don't like to say it, there's a place for violence. I mean you got a major incident going on down there and I didn't see any TV cameras at all. The events that took place in June 1969 have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement, but that's only partially true. Never, never, never. Dick Leitsch:Very often, they would put the cops in dresses, with makeup and they usually weren't very convincing. Stonewall Forever Explore the monument Watch the documentary Download the AR app About & FAQ Privacy Policy We were all there. Producers Library Jerry Hoose:I remember I was in a paddy wagon one time on the way to jail, we were all locked up together on a chain in the paddy wagon and the paddy wagon stopped for a red light or something and one of the queens said "Oh, this is my stop." Liz Davis Dr. Socarides (Archival):Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. Danny Garvin:We had thought of women's rights, we had thought of black rights, all kinds of human rights, but we never thought of gay rights, and whenever we got kicked out of a bar before, we never came together. We ought to know, we've arrested all of them. I entered the convent at 26, to pursue that question and I was convinced that I would either stay until I got an answer, or if I didn't get an answer just stay. I learned, very early, that those horrible words were about me, that I was one of those people. The very idea of being out, it was ludicrous. The events. Geordie, Liam and Theo Gude It was a horror story. They were afraid that the FBI was following them. Transcript Aired June 9, 2020 Stonewall Uprising The Year That Changed America Film Description When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of. 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. View in iTunes. Amber Hall Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. I grew up in a very Catholic household and the conflict of issues of redemption, of is it possible that if you are this thing called homosexual, is it possible to be redeemed? And she was quite crazy. Original Language: English. Michael Dolan, Technical Advisors I have pondered this as "Before Stonewall," my first feature documentary, is back in cinemas after 35 years. Barak Goodman This was ours, here's where the Stonewall was, here's our Mecca. 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. And there was like this tension in the air and it just like built and built. Fred Sargeant:We knew that they were serving drinks out of vats and buckets of water and believed that there had been some disease that had been passed. In 1999, producer Scagliotti directed a companion piece, After Stonewall. And this went on for hours. Danny Garvin Mike Nuget WGBH Educational Foundation Ellinor Mitchell "You could have got us in a lot of trouble, you could have got us closed up." Martha Shelley:They wanted to fit into American society the way it was. So you couldn't have a license to practice law, you couldn't be a licensed doctor. Martin Boyce:It was thrilling. A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. In the Life Raymond Castro:We were in the back of the room, and the lights went on, so everybody stopped what they were doing, because now the police started coming in, raiding the bar. A lot of them had been thrown out of their families. All of this stuff was just erupting like a -- as far as they were considered, like a gigantic boil on the butt of America. And so Howard said, "We've got police press passes upstairs." And in a sense the Stonewall riots said, "Get off our backs, deliver on the promise." Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. You know, all of a sudden, I had brothers and sisters, you know, which I didn't have before. You know, we wanted to be part of the mainstream society. We don't know. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: The 1960s were dark ages for lesbians and gay men all over America. Martha Shelley That night, we printed a box, we had 5,000. Get the latest on new films and digital content, learn about events in your area, and get your weekly fix of American history. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:All of straight America, in terms of the middle class, was recoiling in horror from what was happening all around them at that time, in that summer and the summer before. They were getting more ferocious. And the cops got that. Absolutely, and many people who were not lucky, felt the cops. 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. And the first gay power demonstration to my knowledge was against my story inThe Village Voiceon Wednesday. BBC Worldwide Americas The idea was to be there first. Mike Wallace (Archival):The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. Judy Laster Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:I never bought a drink at the Stonewall. The first police officer that came in with our group said, "The place is under arrest. Getty Images It was done in our little street talk. Slate:The Homosexual(1967), CBS Reports. Scott Kardel, Project Administration So in every gay pride parade every year, Stonewall lives. The mirrors, all the bottles of liquor, the jukebox, the cigarette machines. It's not my cup of tea. I was a man. John O'Brien:I knew that the words that were being said to put down people, was about me. Dana Kirchoff I was wearing my mother's black and white cocktail dress that was empire-waisted. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:We would scatter, ka-poom, every which way. The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. You know. 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. 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. And you felt bad that you were part of this, when you knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was that? Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, iTunes. Dan Bodner They'd go into the bathroom or any place that was private, that they could either feel them, or check them visually. Sophie Cabott Black He brought in gay-positive materials and placed that in a setting that people could come to and feel comfortable in. I made friends that first day. Raymond Castro:There were mesh garbage cans being lit up on fire and being thrown at the police. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:It was always hands up, what do you want? The ones that came close you could see their faces in rage. Remember everything. MacDonald & Associates Every arrest and prosecution is a step in the education of the public to the solution of the problem. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:That night I'm in my office, I looked down the street, and I could see the Stonewall sign and I started to see some activity in front. The only faces you will see are those of the arresting officers. Before Stonewall was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. Jerry Hoose:The open gay people that hung out on the streets were basically the have-nothing-to-lose types, which I was. First you gotta get past the door. There are a lot of kids here. And I ran into Howard Smith on the street,The Village Voicewas right there. Eventually something was bound to blow. They frequent their own clubs, and bars and coffee houses, where they can escape the disapproving eye of the society that they call straight. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:So at that point the police are extremely nervous. In a spontaneous show of support and frustration, the citys gay community rioted for three nights in the streets, an event that is considered the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement. They didn't know what they were walking into. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community is a 1984 American documentary film about the LGBT community prior to the 1969 Stonewall riots. Before Stonewall pries open the closet door, setting free dramatic stories from the early 1900's onwards of public and private existence as experienced by LGBT Americans. We love to hear from our listeners! Genre: Documentary, History, Drama. Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. Martha Shelley:If you were in a small town somewhere, everybody knew you and everybody knew what you did and you couldn't have a relationship with a member of your own sex, period. The last time I saw him, he was a walking vegetable. Read a July 6, 1969excerpt fromTheNew York Daily News. Jerry Hoose:And we were going fast. Richard Enman (Archival):Well, let me say, first of all, what type of laws we are not after, because there has been much to-do that the Society was in favor of the legalization of marriage between homosexuals, and the adoption of children, and such as that, and that is not at all factual at all. Other images in this film are either recreations or drawn from events of the time. (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:Those of us that were the street kids we didn't think much about the past or the future. We were thinking about survival. Jerry Hoose:Gay people who had good jobs, who had everything in life to lose, were starting to join in. Marcus spoke with NPR's Ari Shapiro about his conversations with leaders of the gay-rights movement, as well as people who were at Stonewall when the riots broke out. I actually thought, as all of them did, that we were going to be killed. Suzanne Poli 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. June 21, 2019 1:29 PM EDT. John O'Brien:All of a sudden, the police faced something they had never seen before. Raymond Castro Eric Marcus, Writer:Before Stonewall, there was no such thing as coming out or being out. And all of a sudden, pandemonium broke loose. [1] To commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in 2019, the film was restored and re-released by First Run Features in June 2019. Martin Boyce:I had cousins, ten years older than me, and they had a car sometimes. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We didn't have the manpower, and the manpower for the other side was coming like it was a real war. Because its all right in the Village, but the minute we cross 14th street, if there's only ten of us, God knows what's going to happen to us.". This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips . But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. 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. Fred Sargeant Mike Wallace (Archival):Dr. Charles Socarides is a New York psychoanalyst at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:All of a sudden, in the background I heard some police cars. I wanted to kill those cops for the anger I had in me. It was as if they were identifying a thing. Oddball Film + Video, San Francisco It must have been terrifying for them. Doric Wilson 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. by David Carter, Associate Producer and Advisor And the police escalated their crackdown on bars because of the reelection campaign. When we got dressed for that night, we had cocktails and we put the makeup on. Martin Boyce:I wasn't labeled gay, just "different." The Catholic Church, be damned to hell. Atascadero was known in gay circles as the Dachau for queers, and appropriately so. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:There were gay bars all over town, not just in Greenwich Village. Virginia Apuzzo: I grew up with that. Doric Wilson:When I was very young, one of the terms for gay people was twilight people, meaning that we never came out until twilight, 'til it got dark. And it was fantastic. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. The Chicago riots, the Human Be-in, the dope smoking, the hippies. I would wait until there was nobody left to be the girl and then I would be the girl. Greg Shea, Legal I never believed in that. Barbara Gittings and Kay Tobin Lahusen Gay History Papers and Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Getting then in the car, rocking them back and forth. You cut one head off. You needed a license even to be a beautician and that could be either denied or taken away from you. Hear more of the conversation and historical interviews at the audio link. Yvonne Ritter:I did try to get out of the bar and I thought that there might be a way out through one of the bathrooms. Raymond Castro:So then I got pushed back in, into the Stonewall by these plain clothes cops and they would not let me out, they didn't let anybody out.
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