Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community.
Before Stonewall chronicles through interviews and historical footage the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s through 1969. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots following the police...
| Uniform Title: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Language: | English |
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New York :
First Run Features,
[2010?]
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| Edition: | Twenty-fifth anniversary edition. |
| Series: | Rovi Media Collection. Movies.
Rovi K-12 education materials. |
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| Physical Description: | 2 videodiscs (175 min.) : sound, color with black and white sequences ; 4 3/4 in. |
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Making of a gay and lesbian community.
Gay and lesbian community.
Before after Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community.
Before & after Stonewall. |
| Format: | Video DVD |
| Summary: |
Before Stonewall chronicles through interviews and historical footage the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s through 1969. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots following the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. After Stonewall traces the gay liberation movement in America from the 1969 Stonewall riots through the 1990s capturing the hard work, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced. Also explores how AIDS changed the direction of the movement. |
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| Note: | Two documentary films. Collective title from container. "Funding for this program was provided by the Corporation for Public Broadcasting." Before Stonewall originally released in 1984 by Before Stonewall, Inc. After Stonewall originally released in 1999 by After Stonewall, Inc. Special features Disc 1: 1984 Interview with Allen Ginsberg by journalist Andrew Kopkind featuring two poems ("Sleeping with Kerouac" and "on the ordinariness of homosexuality"); Interview with Audre Lord and Yvonne Flowers by author Jewel Gomez (Fall, 1984); "The Black Cat:/Jose Sarria" film of the reunion of 1950's Black Cat Café community (a San Francisco nightclub) in 1983, 20 years after its closing. Special features Disc 2: Interview with director John Scagliotti; Tribute to Vito Russo by Lily Tomlin, Dorothy Allison and Jewelle Gomez (from director John Scagliotti's series "In the Life"; Armistead Maupin on PBS selling out to the Christian right; Congressman Barney Frank on post-Stonewallian stories of travel; Jewelle Gomez on poetry as a galvanizing force, and her relationship with poet Audre Lorde; Author Dorothy Allison on making an alternative family in the late twentieth century. Videorecording. |
| Call Number: | CV6 D0122251 VideoDVD |
| Credits: | Disc 1, Before Stonewall: archival research director, Andrea Weiss ; editor, Bill Daughton ; cinematographers, Jan Kraepelin, Sandi Sissel, Cathy Zheutlin. Disc 2, After Stonewall: music, Don DiNicola ; archival researcher, Isabelle de Rezende. |
| System Details: | DVD ; NTSC ; full screen. |
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Disc 1: narrator, Rita Mae Brown ; featuring Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Armistead Maupin ... [et al.].
Disc 2: narrator, Melissa Etheridge ; featuring Larry Kramer, Sheila James Kuehl, Harvey Milk ... [et al.]. |