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. "Don't fire. Jerry Hoose:The police would come by two or three times a night. I actually thought, as all of them did, that we were going to be killed. You gotta remember, the Stonewall bar was just down the street from there. Paul Bosche W hen police raided a Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, on June 28, 1969 50 years ago this month the harassment was routine for the time. 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. 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. I'm losing everything that I have. Michael Dolan, Technical Advisors Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries The men's room was under police surveillance. It premiered at the 1984 Toronto International Film Festival and was released in the United States on June 27, 1985. Interviewer (Archival):Are you a homosexual? Naturally, you get careless, you fall for it, and the next thing you know, you have silver bracelets on both arms. 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. John O'Brien:Our goal was to hurt those police. Transcript A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. Martha Shelley 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. Corbis 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. All the rules were off in the '60s. It's the first time I'm fully inside the Stonewall. The documentary "Before Stonewall" was very educational and interesting because it shows a retail group that fought for the right to integrate into the society and was where the homosexual revolution occurred. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, iTunes. That was our world, that block. But we went down to the trucks and there, people would have sex. We knew it was a gay bar, we walked past it. That night, the police ran from us, the lowliest of the low. 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. At least if you had press, maybe your head wouldn't get busted. I mean I'm only 19 and this'll ruin me. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt:As much as I don't like to say it, there's a place for violence. It was right in the center of where we all were. A few of us would get dressed up in skirts and blouses and the guys would all have to wear suits and ties. It was a leaflet that attacked the relationship of the police and the Mafia and the bars that we needed to see ended. Yvonne Ritter:And then everybody started to throw pennies like, you know, this is what they were, they were nothing but copper, coppers, that's what they were worth.

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