before stonewall documentary transcript

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. It was nonsense, it was nonsense, it was all the people there, that were reacting and opposing what was occurring. Dick Leitsch:So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. [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]. Her most recent film, Bones of Contention, premiered in the 2016 Berlin International 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. Before Stonewall (1984) Movie Script | Subs like Script I went in there and they took bats and just busted that place up. "Daybreak Express" by D.A. Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives - BBC News Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:All of a sudden, in the background I heard some police cars. 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. Yvonne Ritter:I had just turned 18 on June 27, 1969. Don't fire until I fire. 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. 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? Jorge Garcia-Spitz Doric Wilson:In those days, the idea of walking in daylight, with a sign saying, "I'm a faggot," was horren--, nobody, nobody was ready to do that. 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. And they were gay. Based on Before Stonewall, the activists wanted to fit into society and not rock the boat. Eric Marcus has spent years interviewing people who were there that night, as well as those who were pushing for gay rights before Stonewall. 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. 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?" Guest Post: What I Learned From Revisiting My 1984 Documentary "Before There was the Hippie movement, there was the Summer of Love, Martin Luther King, and all of these affected me terribly. And I ran into Howard Smith on the street,The Village Voicewas right there. And the police escalated their crackdown on bars because of the reelection campaign. And it just seemed like, fantastic because the background was this industrial, becoming an industrial ruin, it was a masculine setting, it was a whole world. This Restored Documentary Examines What LGBTQ Lives Were Like Before Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:Those of us that were the street kids we didn't think much about the past or the future. When we got dressed for that night, we had cocktails and we put the makeup on. 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. The New York Times / Redux Pictures Narrator (Archival):This involves showing the gay man pictures of nude males and shocking him with a strong electric current. Other images in this film are either recreations or drawn from events of the time. 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 . by David Carter, Associate Producer and Advisor And they wore dark police uniforms and riot helmets and they had billy clubs and they had big plastic shields, like Roman army, and they actually formed a phalanx, and just marched down Christopher Street and kind of pushed us in front of them. National Archives and Records Administration I first engaged in such acts when I was 14 years old. "You could have got us in a lot of trouble, you could have got us closed up." Fred Sargeant:The tactical patrol force on the second night came in even larger numbers, and were much more brutal. Jerry Hoose:The police would come by two or three times a night. We went, "Oh my God. And as awful as people might think that sounds, it's the way history has always worked. 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. Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:Ed Koch who was a democratic party leader in the Greenwich Village area, was a specific leader of the local forces seeking to clean up the streets. You knew you could ruin them for life. There may be some here today that will be homosexual in the future. Cause I was from the streets. Raymond Castro The Underground Lounge And so there was this drag queen standing on the corner, so they go up and make a sexual offer and they'd get busted. A word that would be used in the 1960s for gay men and lesbians. Heather Gude, Archival Research It was terrifying. Gay people were never supposed to be threats to police officers. On this episode, the fight for gay rights before Stonewall. Lester Senior Housing Community, Jewish Community Housing Corporation Fred Sargeant:The press did refer to it in very pejorative terms, as a night that the drag queens fought back. The severity of the punishment varies from state to state. Judith Kuchar Revisiting the newly restored "Before Stonewall" 35 years after its premiere, Rosenberg said he was once again struck by its "powerful" and "acutely relevant" narrative. 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. 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. Other images in this film are 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. 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. In an effort to avoid being anachronistic . Narrator (Archival):Note how Albert delicately pats his hair, and adjusts his collar. Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:They started busting cans of tear gas. Martin Boyce:It was another great step forward in the story of human rights, that's what it was. My father said, "About time you fags rioted.". They could be judges, lawyers. A lot of them had been thrown out of their families. We love to hear from our listeners! Danny Garvin:And the cops just charged them. If you would like to read more on the topic, here's a list: Subscribe to our show on Apple Podcasts, Spotify and NPR One. 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. 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. 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. Somehow being gay was the most terrible thing you could possibly be. Getting then in the car, rocking them back and forth. Newly restored for the 50th Anniversary of the Stonewall Riots, Before Stonewall pries open the . Slate:Activity Group Therapy (1950), Columbia University Educational Films. This was a highly unusual raid, going in there in the middle of the night with a full crowd, the Mafia hasn't been alerted, the Sixth Precinct hasn't been alerted. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: The 1960s were dark ages for lesbians and gay men all over America. ITN Source They'd go into the bathroom or any place that was private, that they could either feel them, or check them visually. A person marching in a gay rights parade along New York's Fifth Avenue on July 7th, 1979. Ed Koch, mayorof New York City from1978 to 1989, discussesgay civil rights in New York in the 1960s. And so Howard said, "We've got police press passes upstairs." Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution Things were just changing. There are a lot of kids here. Directors Greta Schiller Robert Rosenberg (co-director) Stars Rita Mae Brown Maua Adele Ajanaku And I said to myself, "Oh my God, this will not last.". ", Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:And he went to each man and said it by name. But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. And today we're talking about Stonewall, which were both pretty anxious about so anxious. 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. Just let's see if they can. It meant nothing to us. John O'Brien:Whenever you see the cops, you would run away from them. 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. You throw into that, that the Stonewall was raided the previous Tuesday night. I mean does anyone know what that is? Martha Shelley:The riot could have been buried, it could have been a few days in the local newspaper and that was that. Obama signed the memorandum to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. The Stonewall had reopened. A medievalist. A CBS news public opinion survey indicates that sentiment is against permitting homosexual relationships between consenting adults without legal punishment. Homo, homo was big. The last time I saw him, he was a walking vegetable. Richard Enman (Archival):Well, let me say, first of all, what type of laws we are not after, because there has been much to-do that the Society was in favor of the legalization of marriage between homosexuals, and the adoption of children, and such as that, and that is not at all factual at all. Brief Summary Of The Documentary 'Before Stonewall' | Bartleby It was a horror story. This produced an enormous amount of anger within the lesbian and gay community in New York City and in other parts of America. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Our radio was cut off every time we got on the police radio. Barney Karpfinger 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. And the rest of your life will be a living hell. The newly restored 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community," re-released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the seminal Stonewall riots, remains a . And it's interesting to note how many youngsters we've been seeing in these films. And that, that was a very haunting issue for me. Martha Shelley:When I was growing up in the '50s, I was supposed to get married to some guy, produce, you know, the usual 2.3 children, and I could look at a guy and say, "Well, objectively he's good looking," but I didn't feel anything, just didn't make any sense to me. You had no place to try to find an identity. Oddball Film + Video, San Francisco Jerry Hoose:The bar itself was a toilet. The lights came on, it's like stop dancing. But I was just curious, I didn't want to participate because number one it was so packed. Almost anything you could name. 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. Leaflets in the 60s were like the internet, today. 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. NBC News Archives Nobody. [00:00:58] Well, this I mean, this is a part of my own history in this weird, inchoate sense. Before Stonewall. For the first time the next person stood up. Fred Sargeant:In the '60s, I met Craig Rodwell who was running the Oscar Wilde Bookshop. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:As much as I don't like to say it, there's a place for violence. Queer was very big. He may appear normal, and it may be too late when you discover he is mentally ill. John O'Brien:I was a poor, young gay person. Before Stonewall | The New York Public Library You gotta remember, the Stonewall bar was just down the street from there. They'd think I'm a cop even though I had a big Jew-fro haircut and a big handlebar mustache at the time. (c) 2011 John O'Brien:The election was in November of 1969 and this was the summer of 1969, this was June. Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested but, well, he was curious. Daily News This 1968 Film Put Drag Queens In The Spotlight Before Stonewall - HuffPost But the before section, I really wanted people to have a sense of what it felt like to be gay, lesbian, transgender, before Stonewall and before you have this mass civil rights movement that comes after Stonewall. Stacker put together a timeline of LGBTQ+ history leading up to Stonewall, beginning with prehistoric events and ending in the late 1960s. Genre: Documentary, History, Drama. Danny Garvin:There was more anger and more fight the second night. 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, I had to act like I wasn't nervous. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:It was always hands up, what do you want? Documentary | Stonewall Forever 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. This was ours, here's where the Stonewall was, here's our Mecca. That's more an uprising than a riot. Revealing and often humorous, this widely acclaimed film relives the emotionally-charged sparking of today's gay rights movement . Slate:Perversion for Profit(1965), Citizens for Decency Through Law. What finally made sense to me was the first time I kissed a woman and I thought, "Oh, this is what it's about." And that's what it was, it was a war. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. We were thinking about survival. Paul Bosche 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. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:That night I'm in my office, I looked down the street, and I could see the Stonewall sign and I started to see some activity in front. Interviewer (Archival):Are you a homosexual? One was the 1845 statute that made it a crime in the state to masquerade. And this went on for hours. Director . Marjorie Duffield This, to a homosexual, is no choice at all. 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They pushed everybody like to the back room and slowly asking for IDs. Katrina Heilbroner And in a sense the Stonewall riots said, "Get off our backs, deliver on the promise." 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. David Huggins There were gay bars in Midtown, there were gay bars uptown, there were certain kinds of gay bars on the Upper East Side, you know really, really, really buttoned-up straight gay bars. Martha Shelley:In those days, what they would do, these psychiatrists, is they would try to talk you into being heterosexual. Jerry Hoose Maureen Jordan I mean I'm talking like sardines. And all of a sudden, pandemonium broke loose. I never saw so many gay people dancing in my life. Before Stonewall (1984) - Plot Summary - IMDb This was in front of the police. And it's that hairpin trigger thing that makes the riot happen. And here they were lifting things up and fighting them and attacking them and beating them. 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. 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." 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. 'Before Stonewall' Tracks the Pre-Movement Era | International The cops were barricaded inside. The Activism That Came Before Stonewall And The Movement That - NPR Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. Fred Sargeant:Someone at this point had apparently gone down to the cigar stand on the corner and got lighter fluid. David Alpert 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. Charles Harris, Transcriptions Louis Mandelbaum Danny Garvin:Everybody would just freeze or clam up. The Chicago riots, the Human Be-in, the dope smoking, the hippies. Seymour Wishman Martha Shelley:They wanted to fit into American society the way it was. ", Martin Boyce:People in the neighborhood, the most unlikely people were starting to support it. Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries More than a half-century after its release, " The Queen " serves as a powerful time capsule of queer life as it existed before the 1969 Stonewall uprising. It said the most dreadful things, it said nothing about being a person. The film brings together voices from over 50 years of the LGBTQ rights movement to explore queer activism before, during and after the Stonewall Riots. She was awarded the first ever Emmy Award for Research for her groundbreaking work on Before Stonewall. The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. Mayor John Lindsay, like most mayors, wanted to get re-elected.

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