Maureen Jordan 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." Susana Fernandes And a couple of 'em had pulled out their guns. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:It was getting worse and worse. People that were involved in it like me referred to it as "The First Run." And as awful as people might think that sounds, it's the way history has always worked. Where did you buy it? So in every gay pride parade every year, Stonewall lives. They put some people on the street right in front ofThe Village Voiceprotesting the use of the word fag in my story. Dr. Socarides (Archival):Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. We love to hear from our listeners! Doric Wilson:Somebody that I knew that was older than me, his family had him sent off where they go up and damage the frontal part of the brain. Dick Leitsch:Very often, they would put the cops in dresses, with makeup and they usually weren't very convincing. You know, it's just, everybody was there. To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. Martin Boyce:I had cousins, ten years older than me, and they had a car sometimes. Jeremiah Hawkins So I attempted suicide by cutting my wrists. [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]. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:Those of us that were the street kids we didn't think much about the past or the future. Jerry Hoose:And I got to the corner of Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street, crossed the street and there I had found Nirvana. For those kisses. John O'Brien:Our goal was to hurt those police. John O'Brien:They had increased their raids in the trucks. 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. 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. 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. 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.". If there had been a riot of that proportion in Harlem, my God, you know, there'd have been cameras everywhere. That summer, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. I learned, very early, that those horrible words were about me, that I was one of those people. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:The mob raised its hand and said "Oh, we'll volunteer," you know, "We'll set up some gay bars and serve over-priced, watered-down drinks to you guys." The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. 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. 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. TV Host (Archival):Are those your own eyelashes? Stacker put together a timeline of LGBTQ+ history leading up to Stonewall, beginning with prehistoric events and ending in the late 1960s. Alexis Charizopolis John O'Brien:In the Civil Rights Movement, we ran from the police, in the peace movement, we ran from the police. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We told this to our men. And if we catch you, involved with a homosexual, your parents are going to know about it first. Leroy S. Mobley Danny Garvin:With Waverly Street coming in there, West Fourth coming in there, Seventh Avenue coming in there, Christopher Street coming in there, there was no way to contain us. You know, we wanted to be part of the mainstream society. These homosexuals glorify unnatural sex acts. National History Archive, LGBT Community Center One time, a bunch of us ran into somebody's car and locked the door and they smashed the windows in. 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. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. 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 The Chicago riots, the Human Be-in, the dope smoking, the hippies. 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. Doric Wilson:And we were about 100, 120 people and there were people lining the sidewalks ahead of us to watch us go by, gay people, mainly. I was in the Navy when I was 17 and it was there that I discovered that I was gay. One never knows when the homosexual is about. Martha Babcock David Carter We ought to know, we've arrested all of them. The Gay Revolution: The Story of the Struggle, Queer (In)Justice: The Criminalization of LGBT People in the United States. He said, "Okay, let's go." 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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 was a man. But I gave it up about, oh I forget, some years ago, over four years ago. The music was great, cafes were good, you know, the coffee houses were good. John O'Brien:Cops got hurt. 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. And it's that hairpin trigger thing that makes the riot happen. The cops were barricaded inside. The police weren't letting us dance. This time they said, "We're not going." It's like, this is not right. And I just didn't understand that. People cheer while standing in front of The Stonewall Inn as the annual Gay Pride parade passes, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in New York. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2016 Berlin International 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. Gay bars were to gay people what churches were to blacks in the South. 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. From left: "Before Stonewall" director Greta Schiller, executive producer John Scagliotti and co-director Robert Rosenberg in 1985. A New York Police officer grabs a man by the hair as another officer clubs a. That's it. I never saw so many gay people dancing in my life. My father said, "About time you fags rioted.". Jerry Hoose:Who was gonna complain about a crackdown against gay people? Never, never, never. A medievalist. I didn't think I could have been any prettier than that night. Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. Robin Haueter I mean they were making some headway. 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. But I had only stuck my head in once at the Stonewall. I was celebrating my birthday at the Stonewall. Danny Garvin:Bam, bam and bash and then an opening and then whoa. I could never let that happen and never did. You see, Ralph was a homosexual. Geoff Kole Virginia Apuzzo:It was free but not quite free enough for us. John O'Brien:All of a sudden, the police faced something they had never seen before. Prisoner (Archival):I realize that, but the thing is that for life I'll be wrecked by this record, see? The only faces you will see are those of the arresting officers. 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. Giles Kotcher Revealing and, by turns, humorous and horrifying, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotional and political spark of today's gay rights movement - the events that . 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. [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. And Vito and I walked the rest of the whole thing with tears running down our face. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. A CBS news public opinion survey indicates that sentiment is against permitting homosexual relationships between consenting adults without legal punishment. Doric Wilson One was the 1845 statute that made it a crime in the state to masquerade. John DiGiacomo They were afraid that the FBI was following them. Danny Garvin:We were talking about the revolution happening and we were walking up 7th Avenue and I was thinking it was either Black Panthers or the Young Lords were going to start it and we turned the corner from 7th Avenue onto Christopher Street and we saw the paddy wagon pull up there. It was nonsense, it was nonsense, it was all the people there, that were reacting and opposing what was occurring. The events. WGBH Educational Foundation They raided the Checkerboard, which was a very popular gay bar, a week before the Stonewall. I actually thought, as all of them did, that we were going to be killed. Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and author with a Ph.D. in American History. So gay people were being strangled, shot, thrown in the river, blackmailed, fired from jobs. If there's one place in the world where you can dance and feel yourself fully as a person and that's threatened with being taken away, those words are fighting words. David Alpert They pushed everybody like to the back room and slowly asking for IDs. June 21, 2019 1:29 PM EDT. 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. 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. Barak Goodman 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." But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. They'd go into the bathroom or any place that was private, that they could either feel them, or check them visually. Getty Images I just thought you had to get through this, and I thought I could get through it, but you really had to be smart about it. 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. 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. 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?". There may be some girls here who will turn lesbian.
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