| Stonewall
Uprising - Theatrical Trailer - "It was the Rosa
Parks moment," says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC
police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar,
The Stonewall Inn.
For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into
paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches
the Gay Rights Movement. Told by Stonewall patrons,
Village Voice reporters and the cop who led the raid,
Stonewall Uprising compellingly recalls the bad old
days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with
mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even
lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters
against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment
was rampant.
A
treasure-trove of archival footage gives life to this
all-too-recent reality, a time when Mike Wallace announced
on a 1966 CBS Reports: "The average homosexual,
if there be such, is promiscuous. He is not interested
in, nor capable of, a lasting relationship like that
of a heterosexual marriage." At the height of
this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering
nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and
a small army of tactical police. The rest is history.
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Courtesy of Film Forum.
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Apr 17 10
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