Daniel Pine That this was normal stuff. Eric Marcus, Recreation Still Photography Dick Leitsch:And so the cops came with these buses, like five buses, and they all were full of tactical police force. Obama signed the memorandum to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. Noah Goldman David Huggins Tires were slashed on police cars and it just went on all night long. Robin Haueter Ed Koch, mayorof New York City from1978 to 1989, discussesgay civil rights in New York in the 1960s. 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. People that were involved in it like me referred to it as "The First Run." Revisiting 'Before Stonewall' Film for the 50th Anniversary | Time But after the uprising, polite requests for change turned into angry demands. David Carter, Author ofStonewall:Most raids by the New York City Police, because they were paid off by the mob, took place on a weeknight, they took place early in the evening, the place would not be crowded. Marjorie Duffield and I didn't see anything but a forest of hands. Colonial House 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. He is not interested in, nor capable of a lasting relationship like that of a heterosexual marriage. A person marching in a gay rights parade along New York's Fifth Avenue on July 7th, 1979. In the trucks or around the trucks. Just making their lives miserable for once. Eric Marcus, Writer:It was incredibly hot. ITN Source That was our world, that block. Narrator (Archival):This is a nation of laws. It was the only time I was in a gladiatorial sport that I stood up in. Giles Kotcher We love to hear from our listeners! Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We told this to our men. Ellen Goosenberg Before Stonewall (1984) - Plot Summary - IMDb Samual Murkofsky But everybody knew it wasn't normal stuff and everyone was on edge and that was the worst part of it because you knew they were on edge and you knew that the first shot that was fired meant all the shots would be fired. 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. It's very American to say, "You promised equality, you promised freedom." [7] In 1989, it won the Festival's Plate at the Torino International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival. A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. People started throwing pennies. But it was a refuge, it was a temporary refuge from the street. As president of the Mattachine Society in New York, I tried to negotiate with the police and the mayor. Watch Before Stonewall | Prime Video - amazon.com You know, it's just, everybody was there. Dick Leitsch:And the blocks were small enough that we could run around the block and come in behind them before they got to the next corner. Cause we could feel a sense of love for each other that we couldn't show out on the street, because you couldn't show any affection out on the street. [00:00:58] Well, this I mean, this is a part of my own history in this weird, inchoate sense. Mike Wallace (Archival):Two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear. Fred Sargeant:In the '60s, I met Craig Rodwell who was running the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. First Run Features You know, Howard's concern was and my concern was that if all hell broke loose, they'd just start busting heads. 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. Frank Kameny The mirrors, all the bottles of liquor, the jukebox, the cigarette machines. And the harder she fought, the more the cops were beating her up and the madder the crowd got. It was as if they were identifying a thing. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:And then the next night. LGBTQ+ History Before Stonewall | Stacker We didn't want to come on, you know, wearing fuzzy sweaters and lipstick, you know, and being freaks. Susan Liberti They frequent their own clubs, and bars and coffee houses, where they can escape the disapproving eye of the society that they call straight. Other images in this film are Slate:The Homosexual(1967), CBS Reports. Gay people were not powerful enough politically to prevent the clampdown and so you had a series of escalating skirmishes in 1969. As you read, keep in mind that LGBTQ+ is a relatively new term and, while queer people have always existed, the terminology has changed frequently over the years. 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. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:We would scatter, ka-poom, every which way. Like, "Joe, if you fire your gun without me saying your name and the words 'fire,' you will be walking a beat on Staten Island all alone on a lonely beach for the rest of your police career. "We're not going.". We had been threatened bomb threats. John O'Brien:They had increased their raids in the trucks. You were alone. And here they were lifting things up and fighting them and attacking them and beating them. 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? You knew you could ruin them for life. Martin Boyce:In the early 60s, if you would go near Port Authority, there were tons of people coming in. J. Michael Grey Even non-gay people. I famously used the word "fag" in the lead sentence I said "the forces of faggotry." 'Cause I really realized that I was being trained as a straight person, so I could really fool these people. Hear more of the conversation and historical interviews at the audio link. 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. It was terrifying. Louis Mandelbaum This was in front of the police. That night, the police ran from us, the lowliest of the low. But we had to follow up, we couldn't just let that be a blip that disappeared. Dick Leitsch:It was an invasion, I mean you felt outraged and stuff like you know what, God, this is America, what's this country come to? And she was quite crazy. 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. 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. Narrator (Archival):This is one of the county's principal weekend gathering places for homosexuals, both male and female. Pamela Gaudiano One time, a bunch of us ran into somebody's car and locked the door and they smashed the windows in. Martin Boyce:It was thrilling. It eats you up inside. View in iTunes. It was as bad as any situation that I had met in during the army, had just as much to worry about. Naturally, you get careless, you fall for it, and the next thing you know, you have silver bracelets on both arms. They put some people on the street right in front ofThe Village Voiceprotesting the use of the word fag in my story. This time they said, "We're not going." They would not always just arrest, they would many times use clubs and beat. On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. I told the person at the door, I said "I'm 18 tonight" and he said to me, "you little SOB," he said. It was a real good sound to know that, you know, you had a lot of people out there pulling for you. Before Stonewall. I would get in the back of the car and they would say, "We're going to go see faggots." Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. Gay people were told we didn't have any of that. Never, never, never. 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. You know. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:It was always hands up, what do you want? This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots. And the people coming out weren't going along with it so easily. As kids, we played King Kong. And then there were all these priests ranting in church about certain places not to go, so you kind of knew where you could go by what you were told not to do. Dick Leitsch:Very often, they would put the cops in dresses, with makeup and they usually weren't very convincing. 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. Where did you buy it? Guest Post: What I Learned From Revisiting My 1984 Documentary "Before Not able to do anything. It was a way to vent my anger at being repressed. And I ran into Howard Smith on the street,The Village Voicewas right there. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:They were sexual deviates. Martin Boyce:Oh, Miss New Orleans, she wouldn't be stopped. That night, we printed a box, we had 5,000. And the rest of your life will be a living hell. 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. Jerry Hoose:Gay people who had good jobs, who had everything in life to lose, were starting to join in. The groundbreaking 1984 film "Before Stonewall" introduced audiences to some of the key players and places that helped spark the Greenwich Village riots. Homosexuality was a dishonorable discharge in those days, and you couldn't get a job afterwards. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. Because if you don't have extremes, you don't get any moderation. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. 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. Fred Sargeant:The tactical patrol force on the second night came in even larger numbers, and were much more brutal. 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. Doric Wilson:That's what happened Stonewall night to a lot of people. There was the Hippie movement, there was the Summer of Love, Martin Luther King, and all of these affected me terribly. I could never let that happen and never did. I mean it didn't stop after that. And it was fantastic. Fred Sargeant Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:TheNew York TimesI guess printed a story, but it wasn't a major story. 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. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Well, we did use the small hoses on the fire extinguishers. The first police officer that came in with our group said, "The place is under arrest. That's more an uprising than a riot. The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. They'd think I'm a cop even though I had a big Jew-fro haircut and a big handlebar mustache at the time. 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. Pennebaker courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films How do you think that would affect him mentally, for the rest of their lives if they saw an act like that being? But I had only stuck my head in once at the Stonewall. Absolutely, and many people who were not lucky, felt the cops. Mike Nuget And we had no right to such. I made friends that first day. John O'Brien:In the Civil Rights Movement, we ran from the police, in the peace movement, we ran from the police. And if enough people broke through they would be killed and I would be killed. So you couldn't have a license to practice law, you couldn't be a licensed doctor. The only faces you will see are those of the arresting officers. Chris Mara To celebrate the 30th anniversary of the Teddy Awards, the film was shown at the 66th Berlin International Film Festival in February 2016. 'Before Stonewall' Tracks the Pre-Movement Era | International Doric Wilson:When I was very young, one of the terms for gay people was twilight people, meaning that we never came out until twilight, 'til it got dark. I wanted to kill those cops for the anger I had in me. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City:Yes, entrapment did exist, particularly in the subway system, in the bathrooms. Doric Wilson:And I looked back and there were about 2,000 people behind us, and that's when I knew it had happened. Before Stonewall (1984) - IMDb Windows started to break. I mean you got a major incident going on down there and I didn't see any TV cameras at all. Jerry Hoose:I was chased down the street with billy clubs. Except for the few mob-owned bars that allowed some socializing, it was basically for verboten. Do you understand me?". 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 . 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. We were scared. I was proud. 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. Lauren Noyes. Is that conceivable? (c) 2011 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. Gay people were never supposed to be threats to police officers. [00:00:55] Oh, my God. Doing things like that. I would wait until there was nobody left to be the girl and then I would be the girl. John O'Brien:They went for the head wounds, it wasn't just the back wounds and the leg wounds. The severity of the punishment varies from state to state. They were the storm troopers. The very idea of being out, it was ludicrous. But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. People cheer while standing in front of The Stonewall Inn as the annual Gay Pride parade passes, Sunday, June 26, 2011 in New York. Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries . Producers Library Susana Fernandes Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:What was so good about the Stonewall was that you could dance slow there. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:The police would zero in on us because sometimes they would be in plain clothes, and sometimes they would even entrap. Narrator (Archival):This involves showing the gay man pictures of nude males and shocking him with a strong electric current. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:So at that point the police are extremely nervous. And I knew that I was lesbian. Dan Martino 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) Raymond Castro:New York City subways, parks, public bathrooms, you name it. Atascadero was known in gay circles as the Dachau for queers, and appropriately so. 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. You had no place to try to find an identity. The police weren't letting us dance. People standing on cars, standing on garbage cans, screaming, yelling. Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. Before Stonewall | The New York Public Library In an effort to avoid being anachronistic . It was one of the things you did in New York, it was like the Barnum and Bailey aspect of it. 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. I am not alone, there are other people that feel exactly the same way.". It is usually after the day at the beach that the real crime occurs. Danny Garvin:There was more anger and more fight the second night. The lights came on, it's like stop dancing. 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. Some of the pre-Stonewall uprisings included: Black Cat Raid, Los Angeles, California, 1967 Black Night Brawl, Milwaukee, Wisconsin, August 5, 1961. The New York Times / Redux Pictures They would bang on the trucks. 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And as awful as people might think that sounds, it's the way history has always worked. It was not a place that, in my life, me and my friends paid much attention to. Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives - BBC News We went, "Oh my God. Fred Sargeant:Someone at this point had apparently gone down to the cigar stand on the corner and got lighter fluid. This Restored Documentary Examines What LGBTQ Lives Were Like Before Oh, tell me about your anxiety.
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