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DVD

Before Stonewall : [the making of a gay and lesbian community]

Call Number

  • DVD 323.3264 B4159 (CEN)

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Performers

Narrated by Rita Mae Brown.

Publication Information

[New York, NY] : First Run Features, [200-?]

Physical Description

1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.

Summary

A social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969. Traces the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement after a police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed.

Notes

DVD format.

Videodisc release of the 1984 documentary film.

Subtitle from container.

Featuring Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg, and many more!

Not rated.

Subjects