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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 .
Stonewall Uprising (2010), a documentary using archival footage, photographs, documents, and witness statements Stonewall (2015), a drama about a fictional protagonist who interacts with fictionalized versions of some of the people in and around the riots
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 ...
It was a speakeasy-like bar with one of the few floors in New York City where men danced with other men. On June 28, 1969, the Stonewall Inn became the place where a rebellion against a police ...
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.It was narrated by author Rita Mae Brown, directed by Greta Schiller, co-directed by Robert Rosenberg, and co-produced by John Scagliotti and Rosenberg, and Schiller.
It was a rebellion, it was an uprising, it was a civil rights disobedience – it wasn't no damn riot. — Stormé DeLarverie [ 3 ] [ 15 ] [ 16 ] At the Stonewall rebellion , a scuffle broke out when DeLarverie was roughly escorted from the door of the bar to the waiting police wagon.
It opens as the Stonewall National Monument 's visitor center on Friday, the anniversary of the 1969 rebellion that helped reshape LGBTQ+ life in the United States in the ensuing decades.
Interviews with Pine and other eyewitness accounts of the incident at the Stonewall Inn were included in the 2010 documentary film Stonewall Uprising produced and directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner. [6] "You knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was it?", he claims in the documentary.