Stonewall uprising /
Featuring archival footage and interviews with those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists, and a former mayor of New York City, this program revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout the United States, and homosexuality itself was c...
| Uniform Title: | American experience (Television program). |
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| Format: | Video |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English language soundtrack with optional English closed-captioning. |
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[San Francisco, California, USA] :
[Kanopy Streaming],
[2015]
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| Online Access: | Connect to this streaming video (Kanopy) |
| Summary: | Featuring archival footage and interviews with those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists, and a former mayor of New York City, this program revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout the United States, and homosexuality itself was considered a mental illness. On June 28, 1969, when police raided the Stonewall Inn, a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived. |
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| Item Description: | Originally broadcast as episode 9 of season 23 of the PBS television series The American Experience in 2010. Based on: Stonewall : the riots that sparked the gay revolution by David Carter. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 82 min.) : sound, color, with black and white sequences |
| Playing Time: | 01:22:11 |
| Production Credits: | Cinematographer, Buddy Squires ; editor, Kate Davis ; composer, Gary Lionelli. |
| Access: | Access restricted to subscribers. |