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Stonewall Uprising is a 2010 American documentary film examining the events surrounding the Stonewall riots that began during the early hours of June 28, 1969. Stonewall Uprising made its theatrical debut on June 16, 2010, at the Film Forum in New York City .
The Stonewall riots (also known as the Stonewall uprising, Stonewall rebellion, Stonewall revolution, [3] or simply Stonewall) were a series of spontaneous riots and demonstrations against a police raid that took place in the early morning hours of June 28, 1969, at the Stonewall Inn, in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of New York City.
The film focuses on the riot that took place at Compton's Cafeteria in 1966, three years before the more widely known Stonewall uprising.The documentary sheds light on the experiences of transgender women, drag queens, and other gender non-conforming individuals who frequented Compton's Cafeteria, which served as a gathering place for the ...
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The Stonewall Visitor Center will be located at the same site of the June 1969 uprising that is largely credited as a turning point in the modern gay rights movement.
Stormé DeLarverie (c. December 24, 1920 – May 24, 2014) was an American woman known as the butch lesbian whose scuffle with police was, according to DeLarverie and many eyewitnesses, the spark that ignited the Stonewall uprising, spurring the crowd to action. [3] She was born in New Orleans, to an African American mother and a white father.
Two documentaries, both released this fall, center on Jeff and Shaleia Ayan, the married couple who started TFU by rebranding the age-old concept of a “soul mate” and selling it to a ...