The 1969 Stonewall Rts marked a historic turng pot for gay rights, but several smaller uprisgs preced Stonewall as LGBTQ muni phed back agast harassment and equaly.
Contents:
- REVIEW: ‘BEFORE STONEWALL: THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY’
- BEFORE STONEWALL: THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
- BEFORE STONEWALL : THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN MUNY
- 'BEFORE STONEWALL': THE ROOTS OF GAY LIFE
REVIEW: ‘BEFORE STONEWALL: THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY’
* before stonewall the making of a gay and lesbian community *
The Stonewall Rts of 1969 are arguably the most famo and impactful uprisgs for lbian, gay, bisexual transgenr, and queer (LGBTQ+) rights.
Pl Avenue gay bar Milwkee, on a dare. 1965: Philalphia – Dewey’s Rtrant S-InDewey's rtrant Philalphia, Pennsylvania as appeared May April 25, 1965, the 17th Street lotn of Dewey’s rtrant Philalphia nied service to approximately 150 people who appeared to be gay or genr non-nformg. Three teenagers refed to leave and were later arrted, along wh Clark Polak, lear of the homophile anizatn Jan Society, after he offered to help the group obta a lawyer.
BEFORE STONEWALL: THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN COMMUNY
The 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy" ptured the movement's pre-rts history. * before stonewall the making of a gay and lesbian community *
McDarrah/Getty ImagAfter pourg their drks, a bartenr Juli's Bar ref to serve John Timms, Dick Lesch, Craig Rodwell, and Randy Wicker, members of the Mattache Society who were prottg New York liquor laws that prevented servg gay ctomers, 1966. McDarrah/Getty Imag)In sprg 1966, members of the early gay rights anizatn Mattache Society staged a “sip-”—a twist on “s-” prott— which they vised taverns, clared themselv gay, and waed to be turned away so they uld sue. ”The group was fally nied service at the Greenwich Village tavern Juli, which had been raid by police a few days earlier for servg gay people.
This led to the quick reversal of the state’s anti-gay liquor laws.
BEFORE STONEWALL : THE MAKG OF A GAY AND LBIAN MUNY
A rt epted as dozens of trans people, drag queens and gay men fought the police.
1966–1967: Los Angel – Black Cat Tavern Protts, Los AngelOpened November 1966, Black Cat Tavern was a haven for Silver Lake’s queer muny, who were subjected to harassment om police enforcg anti-homosexualy laws.
Different fight, 'same goal': How the Black eedom movement spired early gay activists. Philly’s largt gay hangout nied service to 150 people 1965 for simply ‘lookg gay.
'BEFORE STONEWALL': THE ROOTS OF GAY LIFE
The newly rtored 1984 documentary “Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy, ” re-released to ci wh the 50th anniversary of the semal Stonewall rts, remas a val, well-told, if slightly rough-around-the-edg chronicle of LGBTQ history om the early 20th century to 1969’s birth of the morn gay rights movement. Directors Greta Schiller and Robert Rosenberg blend a superb trove of personal and archival film clips, cleverly ed perd mic, and narratn by “Rubyu Jungle” thor Ra Mae Brown wh ndid “we were there” terviews wh pneerg LGBTQ activists, wrers and historians such as Harry Hay, Allen Gsberg, Frank Kameny, Audre Lor, Barbara Gtgs, Mart Duberman, Mabel Hampton, Ann Bannon and Wt Hollywood in Ivy everyday gay folks also weigh wh eclectic tal of life lived on the g as they elud and powered through s of opprsive laws, mor and bias. A stirrg sense of pri, self-posssn and rolve is evint the film’s wealth of terview the Great Deprsn, the World War II era, McCarthyism and the Lavenr Sre, the Ksey Reports, Ameri’s risg bohemian subculture, the 1960s civil rights movement and more all affected the ght evolutn of gay and lbian existence is chronologilly examed here lucid and enlighteng ways.
-------------‘Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy’Not ratedRunng time: 1 hour, 27 mutPlayg: Starts Friday, Ahrya Fe Arts, Beverly Get our L. Before Stonewall: The Makg of a Gay and Lbian Communy (1988), a non-fictn book by Amerin filmmakers Greta Schiller and Andrea Weiss, is a pann to Schiller's documentary of the same name, which chronicl key figur and events LGBTQ+ muni prr to the 1969 Stonewall rts, a watershed moment that galvanized the gay liberatn movement. In 2019, the film on which Before Stonewall is based was selected for prervatn by the Library of Congrs as a "culturally, historilly, or athetilly signifint" a brief moment the 1920s, gays and lbians enjoyed a perd of relatively high social acceptance that they would not experience aga until the 1970s.