It's like, this is not right. It was fun to see fags. Martin Boyce:We were like a Hydra. This time they said, "We're not going." Martha Shelley It was an age of experimentation. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We were looking for secret exits and one of the policewomen was able to squirm through the window and they did find a way out. Things were just changing. They were supposed to be weak men, limp-wristed.
And the police were showing up. [7] In 1989, it won the Festival's Plate at the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. And so Howard said, "We've got police press passes upstairs." In the sexual area, in psychology, psychiatry. And they started smashing their heads with clubs. 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) - IMDb Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. Daniel Pine 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. They were the storm troopers. John O'Brien:Heterosexuals, legally, had lots of sexual outlets. 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. They were to us. I had never seen anything like that. John O'Brien:If a gay man is caught by the police and is identified as being involved in what they called lewd, immoral behavior, they would have their person's name, their age and many times their home address listed in the major newspapers. Jerry Hoose:I mean the riot squad was used to riots. It was a down at a heels kind of place, it was a lot of street kids and things like that. They were just holding us almost like in a hostage situation where you don't know what's going to happen next. Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Transcript A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. Nobody. John van Hoesen Hunted, hunted, sometimes we were hunted. June 21, 2019 1:29 PM EDT. 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. John O'Brien:Cops got hurt. It was a horror story. It's very American to say, "You promised equality, you promised freedom." Clever. And we all relaxed. Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. Historic Films A word that would be used in the 1960s for gay men and lesbians. But we couldn't hold out very long. The award-winning documentary film, Before Stonewall, which was released theatrically and broadcast on PBS television in 1984, explored the history of the lesbian and gay rights movement in the United States prior to 1969. Richard Enman (Archival):Present laws give the adult homosexual only the choice of being, to simplify the matter, heterosexual and legal or homosexual and illegal. Dick Leitsch:There were Black Panthers and there were anti-war people. John O'Brien:In the Civil Rights Movement, we ran from the police, in the peace movement, we ran from the police. The events that took place in June 1969 have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement, but that's only partially true. Fifty years ago, a riot broke out at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. John O'Brien:Our goal was to hurt those police. You know, we wanted to be part of the mainstream society. Martin Boyce:The day after the first riot, when it was all over, and I remember sitting, sun was soon to come, and I was sitting on the stoop, and I was exhausted and I looked at that street, it was dark enough to allow the street lamps to pick up the glitter of all the broken glass, and all the debris, and all the different colored cloth, that was in different places. And if enough people broke through they would be killed and I would be killed. I grew up in a very Catholic household and the conflict of issues of redemption, of is it possible that if you are this thing called homosexual, is it possible to be redeemed? 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.
Before Stonewall : Throughline : NPR 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 . Even non-gay people. 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. And Vito and I walked the rest of the whole thing with tears running down our face. 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. Alexis Charizopolis Genre: Documentary, History, Drama. John Scagliotti There was at least one gay bar that was run just as a hustler bar for straight gay married men. 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. That summer, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. The groundbreaking 1984 film "Before Stonewall" introduced audiences to some of the key players and places that helped spark the Greenwich Village riots. Paul Bosche I'm losing everything that I have. 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. In 1969 it was common for police officers to rough up a gay bar and ask for payoffs. For the first time, we weren't letting ourselves be carted off to jails, gay people were actually fighting back just the way people in the peace movement fought back. What finally made sense to me was the first time I kissed a woman and I thought, "Oh, this is what it's about."
Brief Summary Of The Documentary 'Before Stonewall' | Bartleby Leroy S. Mobley William Eskridge, Professor of Law:The Stonewall riots came at a central point in history. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:There were no instructions except: put them out of business. It was tremendous freedom. Danny Garvin:Bam, bam and bash and then an opening and then whoa. But it was a refuge, it was a temporary refuge from the street. All kinds of designers, boxers, big museum people. 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? 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. Danny Garvin:We had thought of women's rights, we had thought of black rights, all kinds of human rights, but we never thought of gay rights, and whenever we got kicked out of a bar before, we never came together. I went in there and they took bats and just busted that place up. Danny Garvin:There was more anger and more fight the second night. We love to hear from our listeners! by David Carter, Associate Producer and Advisor It won the Best Film Award at the Houston International Film Festival, Best Documentary Feature at Filmex, First Place at the National Educational Film Festival, and Honorable Mention at the Global Village Documentary Festival.
Tweet at us @throughlineNPR, send us an email, or leave us a voicemail at (872) 588-8805. A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. Jerry Hoose:And we were going fast. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:It really should have been called Stonewall uprising. But I had only stuck my head in once at the Stonewall. Jeremiah Hawkins That's more an uprising than a riot. You know, all of a sudden, I had brothers and sisters, you know, which I didn't have before. Audience Member (Archival):I was wondering if you think that there are any quote "happy homosexuals" for whom homosexuality would be, in a way, their best adjustment in life? Martha Babcock 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 . Transcript Enlarge this image 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:There was joy because the cops weren't winning. Narrated by Rita Mae Brownan acclaimed writer whose 1973 novel Rubyfruit Jungle is a seminal lesbian text, but who is possessed of a painfully grating voiceBefore Stonewall includes vintage news footage that makes it clear that gay men and women lived full, if often difficult, lives long before their personal ambitions (however modest) Other images in this film are TV Host (Archival):And Sonia is that your own hair? Calling 'em names, telling 'em how good-looking they were, grabbing their butts. 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. It eats you up inside. 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.
Transcript of Re-Release: The Stonewall | Happy Scribe 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. I could never let that happen and never did. Lauren Noyes. A sickness of the mind. American Airlines 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. The documentary shows how homosexual people enjoyed and shared with each other. I met this guy and I broke down crying in his arms. 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. 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. And Dick Leitsch, who was the head of the Mattachine Society said, "Who's in favor?" Hugh Bush And I think it's both the alienation, also the oppression that people suffered. Interviewer (Archival):What type of laws are you after? And the police escalated their crackdown on bars because of the reelection campaign. Narrator (Archival):We arrested homosexuals who committed their lewd acts in public places. Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! Narrator (Archival):Sure enough, the following day, when Jimmy finished playing ball, well, the man was there waiting. And we had no right to such. Martin Boyce:That was our only block. It was terrifying. On June 27, 1969, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. I really thought that, you know, we did it. Colonial House The severity of the punishment varies from state to state. 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. Not able to do anything. Because if you don't have extremes, you don't get any moderation. 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. Read a July 6, 1969excerpt fromTheNew York Daily News. Jerry Hoose:Who was gonna complain about a crackdown against gay people? 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. Tires were slashed on police cars and it just went on all night long. We don't know. Do you want them to lose all chance of a normal, happy, married life? You see, Ralph was a homosexual. Alan Lechner Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and author with a Ph.D. in American History. The police weren't letting us dance. This 1955 educational film warns of homosexuality, calling it "a sickness of the mind.". Jorge Garcia-Spitz 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. 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. 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. Beginning of our night out started early. Danny Garvin:And the cops just charged them. Finally, Mayor Lindsay listened to us and he announced that there would be no more police entrapment in New York City. 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. Raymond Castro:New York City subways, parks, public bathrooms, you name it. ABCNEWS VideoSource 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. 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. "You could have got us in a lot of trouble, you could have got us closed up." I was wearing my mother's black and white cocktail dress that was empire-waisted. The New York Times / Redux Pictures And the Village has a lot of people with children and they were offended. Bettye Lane That summer, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. Fred Sargeant:In the '60s, I met Craig Rodwell who was running the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. They raided the Checkerboard, which was a very popular gay bar, a week before the Stonewall. 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. The Catholic Church, be damned to hell. Dick Leitsch:Very often, they would put the cops in dresses, with makeup and they usually weren't very convincing. That never happened before. Now, 50 years later, the film is back. So it was a perfect storm for the police. But the . On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. People that were involved in it like me referred to it as "The First Run." Dick Leitsch:And that's when you started seeing like, bodies laying on the sidewalk, people bleeding from the head. But you live with it, you know, you're used to this, after the third time it happened, or, the third time you heard about it, that's the way the world is. It said the most dreadful things, it said nothing about being a person. Charles Harris, Transcriptions And some people came out, being very dramatic, throwing their arms up in a V, you know, the victory sign.
Stonewall Tscript | PDF | Homosexuality | Lgbt It was first released in 1984 with its American premiere at the Sundance Film Festival and its European premiere at the Berlinale, followed by a successful theatrical release in many countries and a national broadcast on PBS. 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. Danny Garvin:It was a chance to find love. It was one of the things you did in New York, it was like the Barnum and Bailey aspect of it. 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. When you exit, have some identification and it'll be over in a short time." 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. Where did you buy it? Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested but, well, he was curious. He pulls all his men inside. Chris Mara, Production Assistants It was a way to vent my anger at being repressed. I first engaged in such acts when I was 14 years old. It's not my cup of tea. Prisoner (Archival):I realize that, but the thing is that for life I'll be wrecked by this record, see? Greg Shea, Legal 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. Stonewall Forever is a documentary from NYC's LGBT Community Center directed by Ro Haber. John O'Brien:I was very anti-police, had many years already of activism against the forces of law and order. Vanessa Ezersky 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 LGBT community. John O'Brien:Whenever you see the cops, you would run away from them. That this was normal stuff. Dick Leitsch:New York State Liquor Authority had a rule that one known homosexual at a licensed premise made the place disorderly, so nobody would set up a place where we could meet because they were afraid that the cops would come in to close it, and that's how the Mafia got into the gay bar business. And so we had to create these spaces, mostly in the trucks. It must have been terrifying for them. The Laramie Project Cast at The Calhoun School Everyone from the street kids who were white and black kids from the South. Not even us. Every arrest and prosecution is a step in the education of the public to the solution of the problem. That's what happened on June 28, but as people were released, the night took an unusual turn when protesters and police clashed. and someone would say, "Well, they're still fighting the police, let's go," and they went in. [7] In 1987, the film won Emmy Awards for Best Historical/Cultural Program and Best Research. We didn't expect we'd ever get to Central Park. Scott Kardel, Project Administration And as I'm looking around to see what's going on, police cars, different things happening, it's getting bigger by the minute. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:They were sexual deviates. Dick Leitsch:And I remember it being a clear evening with a big black sky and the biggest white moon I ever saw. It gives back a little of the terror they gave in my life. Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. At least if you had press, maybe your head wouldn't get busted. 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. Virginia Apuzzo:What we felt in isolation was a growing sense of outrage and fury particularly because we looked around and saw so many avenues of rebellion. They would bang on the trucks. And she was quite crazy. The events that took place in June 1969 have been described as the birth of the gay-rights movement, but that's only partially true. And there was tear gas on Saturday night, right in front of the Stonewall. Doric Wilson:That's what happened Stonewall night to a lot of people. The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. Raymond Castro:If that light goes on, you know to stop whatever you're doing, and separate. I never believed in that. (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). WGBH Educational Foundation People standing on cars, standing on garbage cans, screaming, yelling. Things were being thrown against the plywood, we piled things up to try to buttress it. Jerry Hoose We'll put new liquor in there, we'll put a new mirror up, we'll get a new jukebox."
Before Stonewall | Apple TV You cut one head off. Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. And I knew that I was lesbian. When we got dressed for that night, we had cocktails and we put the makeup on. The term like "authority figures" wasn't used back then, there was just "Lily Law," "Patty Pig," "Betty Badge." They'd go into the bathroom or any place that was private, that they could either feel them, or check them visually. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City:Gay rights, like the rights of blacks, were constantly under attack and while blacks were protected by constitutional amendments coming out of the Civil War, gays were not protected by law and certainly not the Constitution. Martha Shelley:In those days, what they would do, these psychiatrists, is they would try to talk you into being heterosexual. National Archives and Records Administration 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. I would get in the back of the car and they would say, "We're going to go see faggots." Noah Goldman Fred Sargeant:Someone at this point had apparently gone down to the cigar stand on the corner and got lighter fluid. Mike Wallace (Archival):The average homosexual, if there be such, is promiscuous. Slate:The Homosexuals(1967), CBS Reports. Tom Caruso 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. Urban Stages Fred Sargeant:When it was clear that things were definitely over for the evening, we decided we needed to do something more. Hear more of the conversation and historical interviews at the audio link. We were thinking about survival. Judy Laster And we were singing: "We are the Village girls, we wear our hair in curls, we wear our dungarees, above our nellie knees." He said, "Okay, let's go." William Eskridge, Professor of Law:The federal government would fire you, school boards would fire you. 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. 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. The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. I mean, I came out in Central Park and other places. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. Cause I was from the streets. Martha Shelley:The riot could have been buried, it could have been a few days in the local newspaper and that was that. I was celebrating my birthday at the Stonewall. And once that happened, the whole house of cards that was the system of oppression of gay people started to crumble. Danny Garvin:We became a people. Raymond Castro:So finally when they started taking me out, arm in arm up to the paddy wagon, I jumped up and I put one foot on one side, one foot on the other and I sprung back, knocking the two arresting officers, knocking them to the ground. Mike Wallace (Archival):Dr. Charles Socarides is a New York psychoanalyst at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. I was in the Navy when I was 17 and it was there that I discovered that I was gay. 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. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips . Alexis Charizopolis They'd think I'm a cop even though I had a big Jew-fro haircut and a big handlebar mustache at the time. Original Language: English. Because that's what they were looking for, any excuse to try to bust the place. John O'Brien:They had increased their raids in the trucks. And I hadn't had enough sleep, so I was in a somewhat feverish state, and I thought, "We have to do something, we have to do something," and I thought, "We have to have a protest march of our own." Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. 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. A New York Police officer grabs a man by the hair as another officer clubs a man during a confrontation in Greenwich Village after a Gay Power march in New York. In addition to interviews with activists and scholars, the film includes the reflections of renowned writer Allen Ginsberg. Martin Boyce:All of a sudden, Miss New Orleans and all people around us started marching step by step and the police started moving back.
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