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. Abstract. He is not interested in, nor capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage. View in iTunes. John O'Brien:I was with a group that we actually took a parking meter out of theground, three or four people, and we used it as a battering ram. This book, and the related documentary film, use oral histories to present students with a varied view of lesbian and gay experience. People that were involved in it like me referred to it as "The First Run." Today, that event is seen as the start of the gay civil rights movement, but gay activists and organizations were standing up to harassment and discrimination years before. Quentin Heilbroner We heard one, then more and more. Before Stonewall. And she was quite crazy. And then they send them out in the street and of course they did make arrests, because you know, there's all these guys who cruise around looking for drag queens. 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. And this went on for hours. (c) 2011 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. It was right in the center of where we all were. And we had no right to such. A few of us would get dressed up in skirts and blouses and the guys would all have to wear suits and ties. They were to us. 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. Fred Sargeant:Someone at this point had apparently gone down to the cigar stand on the corner and got lighter fluid. For the first time the next person stood up. Danny Garvin:It was the perfect time to be in the Village. Narrator (Archival):This is a nation of laws. I say, I cannot tell this without tearing up. Just making their lives miserable for once. All of the rules that I had grown up with, and that I had hated in my guts, other people were fighting against, and saying "No, it doesn't have to be this way.". A CBS news public opinion survey indicates that sentiment is against permitting homosexual relationships between consenting adults without legal punishment. 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?" Dick Leitsch:You read about Truman Capote and Tennessee Williams and Gore Vidal and all these actors and stuff, Liberace and all these people running around doing all these things and then you came to New York and you found out, well maybe they're doing them but, you know, us middle-class homosexuals, we're getting busted all the time, every time we have a place to go, it gets raided. Lauren Noyes. If anybody should find out I was gay and would tell my mother, who was in a wheelchair, it would have broken my heart and she would have thought she did something wrong. But we're going to pay dearly for this. 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. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:I never bought a drink at the Stonewall. I mean it didn't stop after that. They were getting more ferocious. Jorge Garcia-Spitz We were going to propose something that all groups could participate in and what we ended up producing was what's now known as the gay pride march. And some people came out, being very dramatic, throwing their arms up in a V, you know, the victory sign. Mafia house beer? Where did you buy it? You see these cops, like six or eight cops in drag. The documentary shows how homosexual people enjoyed and shared with each other. I was a man. There may be some girls here who will turn lesbian. Mike Wallace (Archival):Two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear. Is that conceivable? And I just didn't understand that. My last name being Garvin, I'd be called Danny Gay-vin. John O'Brien:Whenever you see the cops, you would run away from them. Dick Leitsch:Mattachino in Italy were court jesters; the only people in the whole kingdom who could speak truth to the king because they did it with a smile. Eric Marcus, Recreation Still Photography Directors Greta Schiller Robert Rosenberg (co-director) Stars Rita Mae Brown Maua Adele Ajanaku and I didn't see anything but a forest of hands. 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?". And I think it's both the alienation, also the oppression that people suffered. 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. 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. A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. Fred Sargeant:The press did refer to it in very pejorative terms, as a night that the drag queens fought back. And they were gay. If that didn't work, they would do things like aversive conditioning, you know, show you pornography and then give you an electric shock. Yvonne Ritter:I had just turned 18 on June 27, 1969. Suzanne Poli Martin Boyce:I wasn't labeled gay, just "different." They call them hotels, motels, lovers' lanes, drive-in movie theaters, etc. We had no speakers planned for the rally in Central Park, where we had hoped to get to. Dana Kirchoff 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?" You throw into that, that the Stonewall was raided the previous Tuesday night. And they started smashing their heads with clubs. One of the world's oldest and largest gay pride parades became a victory celebration after New York's historic decision to legalize same-sex marriage. Do you understand me?". 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. Jerry Hoose:I was afraid it was over. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. Leaflets in the 60s were like the internet, today. 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. How do you think that would affect him mentally, for the rest of their lives if they saw an act like that being? The first police officer that came in with our group said, "The place is under arrest. Pennebaker courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films Jerry Hoose:Who was gonna complain about a crackdown against gay people? The windows were always cloaked. Oh, tell me about your anxiety. 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.". There was at least one gay bar that was run just as a hustler bar for straight gay married men. Jerry Hoose:The bar itself was a toilet. 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. And that, that was a very haunting issue for me. Dr. Socarides (Archival):Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2016 Berlin International 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. And today we're talking about Stonewall, which were both pretty anxious about so anxious. We didn't want to come on, you know, wearing fuzzy sweaters and lipstick, you know, and being freaks. 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. Dan Martino Martha Shelley:They wanted to fit into American society the way it was. We were winning. And you will be caught, don't think you won't be caught, because this is one thing you cannot get away with. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:As much as I don't like to say it, there's a place for violence. Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations [2][3] Later in 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5][6]. They were not used to a bunch of drag queens doing a Rockettes kick line and sort of like giving them all the finger in a way. All kinds of designers, boxers, big museum people. Original Language: English. John O'Brien:They went for the head wounds, it wasn't just the back wounds and the leg wounds. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City:Yes, entrapment did exist, particularly in the subway system, in the bathrooms. 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. 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. Queer was very big. So I got into the subway, and on the car was somebody I recognized and he said, "I've never been so scared in my life," and I said, "Well, please let there be more than ten of us, just please let there be more than ten of us. And the Stonewall was part of that system. For those kisses. 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