AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising
Posted By admin On April 19, 2011 @ 9:00 pm In All,Highlights,Videos | No Comments
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Veteran filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner (Adolescent Addict, Jockey) explore the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists, and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Stonewall Uprising revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness. Hunted and often entrapped by undercover police in their hometowns, gays from around the U.S. began fleeing to New York in search of a sanctuary. Hounded there still by an aggressive police force, they found refuge in a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn. When police raided Stonewall on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.
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[1] full episode: http://video.soptv.org/video/1541031928
[2] American Experience.: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/americanexperience/
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[4] Visit the site to learn more.: http://www.pbs.org/cgi-registry/golocal?station=ksys&site=/wgbh/americanexperience/films/stonewall/
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[6] AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Soundtrack for a Revolution: http://www.soptv.org/american-experience-soundtrack-revolution/
[7] AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Roads to Memphis: http://www.soptv.org/american-experience-roads-memphis/
[8] AMERICAN EXPERIENCE: Freedom Riders: http://www.soptv.org/american-experience-freedom-riders/
[9] INDEPENDENT LENS: We Were Here: http://www.soptv.org/independent-lens-we-were-here/
[10] IN PERFORMANCE AT THE WHITE HOUSE: A Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement: http://www.soptv.org/performance-white-house-celebration-music-civil-rights-movement/
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