A New York Police officer grabs a man by the hair as another officer clubs a. Nobody. Do you want them to lose all chance of a normal, happy, married life? Before Stonewall - Rotten Tomatoes kui We love to hear from our listeners! Before Stonewall (1984) - Plot Summary - IMDb But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. David Carter, Author ofStonewall:There was also vigilantism, people were using walkie-talkies to coordinate attacks on gay men. It eats you up inside not being comfortable with yourself. Mayor John Lindsay, like most mayors, wanted to get re-elected. One was the 1845 statute that made it a crime in the state to masquerade. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:And by the time the police would come back towards Stonewall, that crowd had gone all the around Washington Place come all the way back around and were back pushing in on them from the other direction and the police would wonder, "These are the same people or different people?". Saying I don't want to be this way, this is not the life I want. PDF BEFORE STONEWALL press kit - First Run Features John O'Brien:Heterosexuals, legally, had lots of sexual outlets. Martha Shelley A medievalist. The last time I saw him, he was a walking vegetable. Naturally, you get careless, you fall for it, and the next thing you know, you have silver bracelets on both arms. I told the person at the door, I said "I'm 18 tonight" and he said to me, "you little SOB," he said. Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations They put some people on the street right in front ofThe Village Voiceprotesting the use of the word fag in my story. Dick Leitsch:And so the cops came with these buses, like five buses, and they all were full of tactical police force. 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. It was a leaflet that attacked the relationship of the police and the Mafia and the bars that we needed to see ended. Here are my ID cards, you knew they were phonies. John O'Brien:Whenever you see the cops, you would run away from them. And gay people were standing around outside and the mood on the street was, "They think that they could disperse us last night and keep us from doing what we want to do, being on the street saying I'm gay and I'm proud? Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:Those of us that were the street kids we didn't think much about the past or the future. Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community Other images in this film are either recreations or drawn from events of the time. It was fun to see fags. And they were having a meeting at town hall and there were 400 guys who showed up, and I think a couple of women, talking about these riots, 'cause everybody was really energized and upset and angry about it. Review: 'Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community' There were occasions where you did see people get night-sticked, or disappear into a group of police and, you know, everybody knew that was not going to have a good end. Lynn and Louis Wolfson II Florida Moving Image Archives Martha Shelley:I don't know if you remember the Joan Baez song, "It isn't nice to block the doorway, it isn't nice to go to jail, there're nicer ways to do it but the nice ways always fail." Fred Sargeant:In the '60s, I met Craig Rodwell who was running the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. And that crowd between Howard Johnson's and Mama's Chik-n-Rib was like the basic crowd of the gay community at that time in the Village. Dick Leitsch:There were Black Panthers and there were anti-war people. and someone would say, "Well, they're still fighting the police, let's go," and they went in. Eric Marcus, Writer:It was incredibly hot. I mean, I came out in Central Park and other places. 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. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:So you're outside, and you see like two people walking toward these trucks and you think, "Oh I think I'll go in there," you go in there, there's like a lot of people in there and it's all dark. Queer was very big. Stacker put together a timeline of LGBTQ+ history leading up to Stonewall, beginning with prehistoric events and ending in the late 1960s. The New York State Liquor Authority refused to issue liquor licenses to many gay bars, and several popular establishments had licenses suspended or revoked for "indecent conduct.". Before Stonewall (1984) - IMDb This, to a homosexual, is no choice at all. Fred Sargeant:Things started off small, but there was an energy that began to flow through the crowd. And there was tear gas on Saturday night, right in front of the Stonewall. Before Stonewall : Throughline : NPR hide caption. But after the uprising, polite requests for change turned into angry demands. Martha Shelley:In those days, what they would do, these psychiatrists, is they would try to talk you into being heterosexual. Danny Garvin:And the cops just charged them. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:But there were little, tiny pin holes in the plywood windows, I'll call them the windows but they were plywood, and we could look out from there and every time I went over and looked out through one of those pin holes where he did, we were shocked at how big the crowd had become. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2016 Berlin International And then there were all these priests ranting in church about certain places not to go, so you kind of knew where you could go by what you were told not to do. You knew you could ruin them for life. Paul Bosche (c) 2011 Noah Goldman Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City:Yes, entrapment did exist, particularly in the subway system, in the bathrooms. And it was fantastic. Liz Davis And the harder she fought, the more the cops were beating her up and the madder the crowd got. And this went on for hours. And I knew that I was lesbian. Vanessa Ezersky (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). Giles Kotcher 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. I was celebrating my birthday at the Stonewall. That this was normal stuff. American Airlines 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. Genre: Documentary, History, Drama. And I found them in the movie theatres, sitting there, next to them. And Howard said, "Boy there's like a riot gonna happen here," and I said, "yeah." Guest Post: What I Learned From Revisiting My 1984 Documentary "Before John DiGiacomo I wanted to kill those cops for the anger I had in me. My last name being Garvin, I'd be called Danny Gay-vin. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:This was the Rosa Parks moment, the time that gay people stood up and said no. The windows were always cloaked. Yvonne Ritter:It's like people who are, you know, black people who are used to being mistreated, and going to the back of the bus and I guess this was sort of our going to the back of the bus. In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community. Well, it was a nightmare for the lesbian or gay man who was arrested and caught up in this juggernaut, but it was also a nightmare for the lesbians or gay men who lived in the closet. John O'Brien:I was very anti-police, had many years already of activism against the forces of law and order. And you felt bad that you were part of this, when you knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was that? Director . (158) 7.5 1 h 26 min 1985 13+. Martha Shelley:We participated in demonstrations in Philadelphia at Independence Hall. 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. The Catholic Church, be damned to hell. Abstract. That night, we printed a box, we had 5,000. And if we catch you, involved with a homosexual, your parents are going to know about it first. And, I did not like parading around while all of these vacationers were standing there eating ice cream and looking at us like we were critters in a zoo. Samual Murkofsky We were scared. They didn't know what they were walking into. And all of a sudden, pandemonium broke loose. [00:00:55] Oh, my God. Martha Shelley:They wanted to fit into American society the way it was. Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. Robin Haueter And we were singing: "We are the Village girls, we wear our hair in curls, we wear our dungarees, above our nellie knees." BEFORE STONEWALL - Alliance of Women Film Journalists People could take shots at us. In 1999, producer Scagliotti directed a companion piece, After Stonewall. Brief Summary Of The Documentary 'Before Stonewall' | Bartleby Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:We would scatter, ka-poom, every which way. All kinds of designers, boxers, big museum people. Stonewall Tscript | PDF | Homosexuality | Lgbt Somebody grabbed me by the leg and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:What was so good about the Stonewall was that you could dance slow there. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Well, we did use the small hoses on the fire extinguishers. Every arrest and prosecution is a step in the education of the public to the solution of the problem. The shop had been threatened, we would get hang-up calls, calls where people would curse at us on the phone, we'd had vandalism, windows broken, streams of profanity. 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. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:They were sexual deviates. The award winning film Before Stonewall pries open the closet door, setting free the dramatic story of the sometimes horrifying public and private existences experienced by gay and lesbian Americans since the 1920s. Producers Library Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:And then the next night. Raymond Castro 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. It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown, directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, and co-produced by John Scagliotti and Rosenberg, and Schiller. Hugh Bush Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We told this to our men. Dana Kirchoff Cop (Archival):Anyone can walk into that men's room, any child can walk in there, and see what you guys were doing. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:I had been in some gay bars either for a story or gay friends would say, "Oh we're going to go in for a drink there, come on in, are you too uptight to go in?" Corbis There was all these drags queens and these crazy people and everybody was carrying on. Over a short period of time, he will be unable to get sexually aroused to the pictures, and hopefully, he will be unable to get sexually aroused inside, in other settings as well. Mike Nuget Fred Sargeant:When it was clear that things were definitely over for the evening, we decided we needed to do something more. We had no speakers planned for the rally in Central Park, where we had hoped to get to. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:And they were, they were kids. Slate:In 1969, homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois. Dick Leitsch:And the blocks were small enough that we could run around the block and come in behind them before they got to the next corner. People talk about being in and out now, there was no out, there was just in. It eats you up inside. Remember everything. We ought to know, we've arrested all of them. The events of that night have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We had maybe six people and by this time there were several thousand outside. Except for the few mob-owned bars that allowed some socializing, it was basically for verboten. Getty Images And the rest of your life will be a living hell. Katrina Heilbroner Getting then in the car, rocking them back and forth. And the Stonewall was part of that system. J. Michael Grey Jeremiah Hawkins Bettye Lane The most infamous of those institutions was Atascadero, in California. And, you know,The Village Voiceat that point started using the word "gay.". This is every year in New York City. Homo, homo was big. They could be judges, lawyers. Tires were slashed on police cars and it just went on all night long. 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. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:TheNew York TimesI guess printed a story, but it wasn't a major story. Dick Leitsch:And I remember it being a clear evening with a big black sky and the biggest white moon I ever saw. Atascadero was known in gay circles as the Dachau for queers, and appropriately so. And in a sense the Stonewall riots said, "Get off our backs, deliver on the promise." If you came to a place like New York, you at least had the opportunity of connecting with people, and finding people who didn't care that you were gay. Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives - BBC News William Eskridge, Professor of Law:At the peak, as many as 500 people per year were arrested for the crime against nature, and between 3- and 5,000 people per year arrested for various solicitation or loitering crimes. I guess they're deviates. I never believed in that. It was right in the center of where we all were. We could lose our memory from the beating, we could be in wheelchairs like some were. 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. And they started smashing their heads with clubs. And once that happened, the whole house of cards that was the system of oppression of gay people started to crumble. I have pondered this as "Before Stonewall," my first feature documentary, is back in cinemas after 35 years. But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. And so Howard said, "We've got police press passes upstairs." Martin Boyce:We were like a Hydra. 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 I ran into Howard Smith on the street,The Village Voicewas right there. More than a half-century after its release, " The Queen " serves as a powerful time capsule of queer life as it existed before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. Slate:The Homosexuals(1967), CBS Reports. As you read, keep in mind that LGBTQ+ is a relatively new term and, while queer people have always existed, the terminology has changed frequently over the years. But everybody knew it wasn't normal stuff and everyone was on edge and that was the worst part of it because you knew they were on edge and you knew that the first shot that was fired meant all the shots would be fired. Many of those activists have since died, but Marcus preserved their voices for his book, titled Making Gay History. The newly restored 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community," re-released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the seminal Stonewall riots, remains a . The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. Danny Garvin:Everybody would just freeze or clam up. The ones that came close you could see their faces in rage. I mean I'm only 19 and this'll ruin me. 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. Virginia Apuzzo:It was free but not quite free enough for us. Martha Shelley:The riot could have been buried, it could have been a few days in the local newspaper and that was that. Frank Kameny, co-founder of the Mattachine Society, and Shirley Willer, president of the Daughters of Bilitis, spoke to Marcus about being gay before the Stonewall riots happened and what motivated people who were involved in the movement. 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. June 21, 2019 1:29 PM EDT. Doric Wilson:That's what happened Stonewall night to a lot of people. Dr. Socarides (Archival):I think the whole idea of saying "the happy homosexual" is to, uh, to create a mythology about the nature of homosexuality. Martin Boyce:I heard about the trucks, which to me was fascinated me, you know, it had an imagination thing that was like Marseilles, how can it only be a few blocks away? I was proud. And we all relaxed. View in iTunes. You see these cops, like six or eight cops in drag. National History Archive, LGBT Community Center Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested but, well, he was curious. A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City:There were complaints from people who objected to the wrongful behavior of some gays who would have sex on the street. Raymond Castro:Society expected you to, you know, grow up, get married, have kids, which is what a lot of people did to satisfy their parents. Amber Hall Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries . Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement. All I knew about was that I heard that there were people down in Times Square who were gay and that's where I went to. [00:00:58] Well, this I mean, this is a part of my own history in this weird, inchoate sense. This was a highly unusual raid, going in there in the middle of the night with a full crowd, the Mafia hasn't been alerted, the Sixth Precinct hasn't been alerted. 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. Dan Martino Martin Boyce:It was thrilling. They were getting more ferocious. ITN Source In an effort to avoid being anachronistic . They were afraid that the FBI was following them. These homosexuals glorify unnatural sex acts. 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. I say, I cannot tell this without tearing up. Narrator (Archival):Richard Enman, president of the Mattachine Society of Florida, whose goal is to legalize homosexuality between consenting adults, was a reluctant participant in tonight's program. Cause I was from the streets. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution It meant nothing to us. Raymond Castro:I'd go in there and I would look and I would just cringe because, you know, people would start touching me, and "Hello, what are you doing there if you don't want to be touched?" Not able to do anything. Lauren Noyes. In 1924, the first gay rights organization is founded by Henry Gerber in Chicago. I mean you got a major incident going on down there and I didn't see any TV cameras at all. Dan Bodner Finally, Mayor Lindsay listened to us and he announced that there would be no more police entrapment in New York City. Synopsis. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:If someone was dressed as a woman, you had to have a female police officer go in with her. The documentary "Before Stonewall" was very educational and interesting because it shows a retail group that fought for the right to integrate into the society and was where the homosexual revolution occurred. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:There were all these articles in likeLife Magazineabout how the Village was liberal and people that were called homosexuals went there. The events. Dick Leitsch:So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. Geoff Kole But that's only partially true. They raided the Checkerboard, which was a very popular gay bar, a week before the Stonewall. The Laramie Project Cast at The Calhoun School I went in there and they took bats and just busted that place up. Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries We knew that this was a moment that we didn't want to let slip past, because it was something that we could use to bring more of the groups together. Martha Shelley:Before Stonewall, the homophile movement was essentially the Mattachine Society and Daughters of Bilitis and all of these other little gay organizations, some of which were just two people and a mimeograph machine. 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. Ed Koch, mayorof New York City from1978 to 1989, discussesgay civil rights in New York in the 1960s. It was nonsense, it was nonsense, it was all the people there, that were reacting and opposing what was occurring. Before Stonewall (1984) Movie Script | Subs like Script Dick Leitsch:Well, gay bars were the social centers of gay life. Before Stonewall (1984) - full transcript 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. Danny Garvin:People were screaming "pig," "copper." The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. So gay people were being strangled, shot, thrown in the river, blackmailed, fired from jobs. When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. Do you understand me?". But I'm wearing this police thing I'm thinking well if they break through I better take it off really quickly but they're gunna come this way and we're going to be backing up and -- who knows what'll happen. Mary Queen of the Scotch, Congo Woman, Captain Faggot, Miss Twiggy. I'm losing everything that I have. It was as if an artist had arranged it, it was beautiful, it was like mica, it was like the streets we fought on were strewn with diamonds. Because one out of three of you will turn queer. Jorge Garcia-Spitz Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. Somehow being gay was the most terrible thing you could possibly be. And the cops got that. And I think it's both the alienation, also the oppression that people suffered. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. I made friends that first day. It was a horror story. The first police officer that came in with our group said, "The place is under arrest. Absolutely, and many people who were not lucky, felt the cops. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:It was getting worse and worse. But we're going to pay dearly for this. The scenes were photographed with telescopic lenses. Before Stonewall - Trailer BuskFilms 12.6K subscribers Subscribe 14K views 10 years ago Watch the full film here (UK & IRE only): http://buskfilms.com/films/before-sto. There was no going back now, there was no going back, there was no, we had discovered a power that we weren't even aware that we had. Stonewall Forever Explore the monument Watch the documentary Download the AR app About & FAQ Privacy Policy Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. Judy Laster Interviewer (Archival):Are you a homosexual? We could easily be hunted, that was a game. 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. But it was a refuge, it was a temporary refuge from the street. And you will be caught, don't think you won't be caught, because this is one thing you cannot get away with. Chris Mara, Production Assistants This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips . We didn't necessarily know where we were going yet, you know, what organizations we were going to be or how things would go, but we became something I, as a person, could all of a sudden grab onto, that I couldn't grab onto when I'd go to a subway T-room as a kid, or a 42nd street movie theater, you know, or being picked up by some dirty old man. It was like a reward. We assembled on Christopher Street at 6th Avenue, to march. I could never let that happen and never did. 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. So in every gay pride parade every year, Stonewall lives. The mirrors, all the bottles of liquor, the jukebox, the cigarette machines. Raymond Castro:There were mesh garbage cans being lit up on fire and being thrown at the police. Gay bars were to gay people what churches were to blacks in the South. And it was those loudest people, the most vulnerable, the most likely to be arrested, were the ones that were doing the real fighting. Jerry Hoose:The bar itself was a toilet. The overwhelming number of medical authorities said that homosexuality was a mental defect, maybe even a form of psychopathy. I was a homosexual. We were all there. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:In states like New York, there were a whole basket of crimes that gay people could be charged with. People standing on cars, standing on garbage cans, screaming, yelling. Trevor, Post Production The cops were barricaded inside. 1969: The Stonewall Uprising - Library of Congress Windows started to break. Alfredo del Rio, Archival Still and Motion Images Courtesy of Scott McPartland/Getty Images Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We only had about six people altogether from the police department knowing that you had a precinct right nearby that would send assistance. To commemorate the 20th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in New York City, activists rode their motorcycles during the city's 1989 gay-pride parade. We had been threatened bomb threats. Suzanne Poli Martin Boyce:And then more police came, and it didn't stop. Long before marriage equality, non-binary gender identity, and the flood of new documentaries commemorating this month's 50th anniversary of the Greenwich Village uprising that begat the gay rights movement, there was Greta Schiller's Before Stonewall.Originally released in 1984as AIDS was slowly killing off many of those bar patrons-turned-revolutionariesthe film, through the use of . Well, little did he know that what was gonna to happen later on was to make history. It must have been terrifying for them. Before Stonewall - Wikipedia Dick Leitsch:It was an invasion, I mean you felt outraged and stuff like you know what, God, this is America, what's this country come to? That's it. Slate:Perversion for Profit(1965), Citizens for Decency Through Law. Sophie Cabott Black Barak Goodman It's not my cup of tea. Your choice, you can come in with us or you can stay out here with the crowd and report your stuff from out here.

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