before stonewall documentary transcript

Before Stonewall : Throughline : NPR Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:The mob raised its hand and said "Oh, we'll volunteer," you know, "We'll set up some gay bars and serve over-priced, watered-down drinks to you guys." And it was those loudest people, the most vulnerable, the most likely to be arrested, were the ones that were doing the real fighting. I really thought that, you know, we did it. Narrator (Archival):We arrested homosexuals who committed their lewd acts in public places. As kids, we played King Kong. Revisiting 'Before Stonewall' Film for the 50th Anniversary | Time His movements are not characteristic of a real boy. And they wore dark police uniforms and riot helmets and they had billy clubs and they had big plastic shields, like Roman army, and they actually formed a phalanx, and just marched down Christopher Street and kind of pushed us in front of them. So I run down there. The medical experimentation in Atascadero included administering, to gay people, a drug that simulated the experience of drowning; in other words, a pharmacological example of waterboarding. Slate:Activity Group Therapy (1950), Columbia University Educational Films. All of this stuff was just erupting like a -- as far as they were considered, like a gigantic boil on the butt of America. Jerry Hoose:And we were going fast. I say, I cannot tell this without tearing up. That was scary, very scary. I was celebrating my birthday at the Stonewall. Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:I had a column inThe Village Voicethat ran from '66 all the way through '84. Danny Garvin:We became a people. This 1955 educational film warns of homosexuality, calling it "a sickness of the mind.". So gay people were being strangled, shot, thrown in the river, blackmailed, fired from jobs. This 19-year-old serviceman left his girlfriend on the beach to go to a men's room in a park nearby where he knew that he could find a homosexual contact. Martha Shelley:In those days, what they would do, these psychiatrists, is they would try to talk you into being heterosexual. And a whole bunch of people who were in the paddy wagon ran out. Martin Boyce:Well, in the front part of the bar would be like "A" gays, like regular gays, that didn't go in any kind of drag, didn't use the word "she," that type, but they were gay, a hundred percent gay. And I ran into Howard Smith on the street,The Village Voicewas right there. Dana Kirchoff WGBH Educational Foundation Stonewall Uprising | American Experience | PBS Former U.S. President Barack Obama shakes hands with gay rights activist Frank Kameny after signing a memorandum on federal benefits and non-discrimination in the Oval Office on June 17, 2009. Judy Laster A year earlier, young gays, lesbians and transgender people clashed with police near a bar called The Stonewall Inn. I mean, I came out in Central Park and other places. Transcript A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. Louis Mandelbaum Martha Babcock Milestones in the American Gay Rights Movement. Mayor John Lindsay, like most mayors, wanted to get re-elected. The Stonewall had reopened. A few of us would get dressed up in skirts and blouses and the guys would all have to wear suits and ties. And the people coming out weren't going along with it so easily. The New York State Liquor Authority refused to issue liquor licenses to many gay bars, and several popular establishments had licenses suspended or revoked for "indecent conduct.". Before Stonewall - Trailer BuskFilms 12.6K subscribers Subscribe 14K views 10 years ago Watch the full film here (UK & IRE only): http://buskfilms.com/films/before-sto. William Eskridge, Professor of Law:The Stonewall riots came at a central point in history. Don't fire until I fire. The Mafia owned the jukeboxes, they owned the cigarette machines and most of the liquor was off a truck hijacking. Before Stonewall 1984 Unrated 1 h 27 m IMDb RATING 7.5 /10 1.1K YOUR RATING Rate Play trailer 2:21 1 Video 7 Photos Documentary History The history of the Gay and Lesbian community before the Stonewall riots began the major gay rights movement. Before Stonewall (1984) Movie Script | Subs like Script They were supposed to be weak men, limp-wristed. "Don't fire. Richard Enman (Archival):Ye - well, that's yes and no. Martin Boyce:And I remember moving into the open space and grabbing onto two of my friends and we started singing and doing a kick line. Finally, Mayor Lindsay listened to us and he announced that there would be no more police entrapment in New York City. I'm losing everything that I have. The Stonewall riots inspired gay Americans to fight for their rights. The overwhelming number of medical authorities said that homosexuality was a mental defect, maybe even a form of psychopathy. The idea was to be there first. They can be anywhere. John O'Brien:There was one street called Christopher Street, where actually I could sit and talk to other gay people beyond just having sex. They were getting more ferocious. (Enter your ZIP code for information on American Experience events and screening in your area.). John O'Brien:The election was in November of 1969 and this was the summer of 1969, this was June. The documentary "Before Stonewall" was very educational and interesting because it shows a retail group that fought for the right to integrate into the society and was where the homosexual revolution occurred. Even non-gay people. So I got into the subway, and on the car was somebody I recognized and he said, "I've never been so scared in my life," and I said, "Well, please let there be more than ten of us, just please let there be more than ten of us. David Carter, Author ofStonewall:Most raids by the New York City Police, because they were paid off by the mob, took place on a weeknight, they took place early in the evening, the place would not be crowded. And it's that hairpin trigger thing that makes the riot happen. Stonewall Uprising Program Transcript Slate: In 1969, homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois. Over a short period of time, he will be unable to get sexually aroused to the pictures, and hopefully, he will be unable to get sexually aroused inside, in other settings as well. And, it was, I knew I would go through hell, I would go through fire for that experience. John O'Brien:It was definitely dark, it was definitely smelly and raunchy and dirty and that's the only places that we had to meet each other, was in the very dirty, despicable places. But we went down to the trucks and there, people would have sex. It was right in the center of where we all were. John van Hoesen You had no place to try to find an identity. And Vito and I walked the rest of the whole thing with tears running down our face. This Restored Documentary Examines What LGBTQ Lives Were Like Before Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:And by the time the police would come back towards Stonewall, that crowd had gone all the around Washington Place come all the way back around and were back pushing in on them from the other direction and the police would wonder, "These are the same people or different people?". Once it started, once that genie was out of the bottle, it was never going to go back in. Before Stonewall | Apple TV Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:TheNew York TimesI guess printed a story, but it wasn't a major story. Martin Boyce:All of a sudden, Miss New Orleans and all people around us started marching step by step and the police started moving back. Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. And she was quite crazy. Because to be gay represented to me either very, super effeminate men or older men who hung out in the upper movie theatres on 42nd Street or in the subway T-rooms, who'd be masturbating. Because if you don't have extremes, you don't get any moderation. Martha Shelley:They wanted to fit into American society the way it was. Remember everything. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:There were no instructions except: put them out of business. Kanopy - Stream Classic Cinema, Indie Film and Top Documentaries . John O'Brien:Cops got hurt. We assembled on Christopher Street at 6th Avenue, to march. I had never seen anything like that. 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. Yvonne Ritter:I did try to get out of the bar and I thought that there might be a way out through one of the bathrooms. I first engaged in such acts when I was 14 years old. It was as bad as any situation that I had met in during the army, had just as much to worry about. On June 27, 1969, police raided The Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York. Virginia Apuzzo:What we felt in isolation was a growing sense of outrage and fury particularly because we looked around and saw so many avenues of rebellion. Martin Boyce:I had cousins, ten years older than me, and they had a car sometimes. Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. Doric Wilson:Somebody that I knew that was older than me, his family had him sent off where they go up and damage the frontal part of the brain. They were afraid that the FBI was following them. Fred Sargeant:Three articles of clothing had to be of your gender or you would be in violation of that law. Cause we could feel a sense of love for each other that we couldn't show out on the street, because you couldn't show any affection out on the street. John O'Brien:I knew that the words that were being said to put down people, was about me. Doing things like that. John O'Brien:If a gay man is caught by the police and is identified as being involved in what they called lewd, immoral behavior, they would have their person's name, their age and many times their home address listed in the major newspapers. All rights reserved. Marc Aubin Danny Garvin:We were talking about the revolution happening and we were walking up 7th Avenue and I was thinking it was either Black Panthers or the Young Lords were going to start it and we turned the corner from 7th Avenue onto Christopher Street and we saw the paddy wagon pull up there. Stonewall: A riot that changed millions of lives - BBC News And if enough people broke through they would be killed and I would be killed. Richard Enman (Archival):Present laws give the adult homosexual only the choice of being, to simplify the matter, heterosexual and legal or homosexual and illegal. Franco Sacchi, Additional Animation and Effects On this Wikipedia the language links are at the top of the page across from the article title. Not even us. That summer, New York City police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in Greenwich Village. I never saw so many gay people dancing in my life. And I just didn't understand that. NBC News Archives Is that conceivable? Well, it was a nightmare for the lesbian or gay man who was arrested and caught up in this juggernaut, but it was also a nightmare for the lesbians or gay men who lived in the closet. Pamela Gaudiano And some people came out, being very dramatic, throwing their arms up in a V, you know, the victory sign. Heather Gude, Archival Research It was a leaflet that attacked the relationship of the police and the Mafia and the bars that we needed to see ended. Obama signed the memorandum to extend benefits to same-sex partners of federal employees. First Run Features Jerry Hoose:And I got to the corner of Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street, crossed the street and there I had found Nirvana. "BEFORE STONEWALL" - MetroFocus On June 28, 1969, New York City police raided a Greenwich Village gay bar, the Stonewall Inn, setting off a three-day riot that launched the modern American gay rights movement. People talk about being in and out now, there was no out, there was just in. And as awful as people might think that sounds, it's the way history has always worked. You see, Ralph was a homosexual. Doric Wilson:That's what happened Stonewall night to a lot of people. The film combined personal interviews, snapshots and home movies, together with historical footage. We were all there. Trevor, Post Production Martha Shelley:When I was growing up in the '50s, I was supposed to get married to some guy, produce, you know, the usual 2.3 children, and I could look at a guy and say, "Well, objectively he's good looking," but I didn't feel anything, just didn't make any sense to me. TV Host (Archival):Ladies and gentlemen, the reason for using first names only forthese very, very charming contestants is that right now each one of them is breaking the law. David Carter, Author ofStonewall:There was also vigilantism, people were using walkie-talkies to coordinate attacks on gay men. I mean you got a major incident going on down there and I didn't see any TV cameras at all. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:And then the next night. John Scagliotti Suzanne Poli It was a down at a heels kind of place, it was a lot of street kids and things like that. And gay people were standing around outside and the mood on the street was, "They think that they could disperse us last night and keep us from doing what we want to do, being on the street saying I'm gay and I'm proud? It's a history that people feel a huge sense of ownership over. One time, a bunch of us ran into somebody's car and locked the door and they smashed the windows in. Eventually something was bound to blow. Pennebaker courtesy of Pennebaker Hegedus Films Yvonne Ritter:It's like people who are, you know, black people who are used to being mistreated, and going to the back of the bus and I guess this was sort of our going to the back of the bus. They were not used to a bunch of drag queens doing a Rockettes kick line and sort of like giving them all the finger in a way. Genre: Documentary, History, Drama. I mean I'm talking like sardines. National History Archive, LGBT Community Center The scenes were photographed with telescopic lenses. Lauren Noyes. And there was tear gas on Saturday night, right in front of the Stonewall. That this was normal stuff. Before Stonewall (1984) - IMDb Sign up for the American Experience newsletter! Dan Bodner Like, "Joe, if you fire your gun without me saying your name and the words 'fire,' you will be walking a beat on Staten Island all alone on a lonely beach for the rest of your police career. With this outpouring of courage and unity the gay liberation movement had begun. But everybody knew it wasn't normal stuff and everyone was on edge and that was the worst part of it because you knew they were on edge and you knew that the first shot that was fired meant all the shots would be fired. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:We were looking for secret exits and one of the policewomen was able to squirm through the window and they did find a way out. Jeremiah Hawkins People could take shots at us. Jerry Hoose:The police would come by two or three times a night. Do you understand me?". Somebody grabbed me by the leg and told me I wasn't going anywhere. Martha Shelley:I don't know if you remember the Joan Baez song, "It isn't nice to block the doorway, it isn't nice to go to jail, there're nicer ways to do it but the nice ways always fail." Now, 50 years later, the film is back. "Daybreak Express" by D.A. And we all relaxed. And I found them in the movie theatres, sitting there, next to them. Andrea Weiss is a documentary filmmaker and author with a Ph.D. in American History. Vanessa Ezersky Dick Leitsch:So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. Greg Shea, Legal And you felt bad that you were part of this, when you knew they broke the law, but what kind of law was that? Before Stonewall was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 1985 Sundance Film Festival. I have pondered this as "Before Stonewall," my first feature documentary, is back in cinemas after 35 years. And, you know,The Village Voiceat that point started using the word "gay.". John O'Brien:All of a sudden, the police faced something they had never seen before. If that didn't work, they would do things like aversive conditioning, you know, show you pornography and then give you an electric shock. Virginia Apuzzo:It's very American to say, "This is not right." Jerry Hoose:Gay people who had good jobs, who had everything in life to lose, were starting to join in. If you came to a place like New York, you at least had the opportunity of connecting with people, and finding people who didn't care that you were gay. Stonewall Forever Explore the monument Watch the documentary Download the AR app About & FAQ Privacy Policy 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. The documentary shows how homosexual people enjoyed and shared with each other. It was the only time I was in a gladiatorial sport that I stood up in. We were thinking about survival. Fifty years ago, a riot broke out at the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. (c) 2011 PDF BEFORE STONEWALL press kit - First Run Features I mean I'm only 19 and this'll ruin me. He said, "Okay, let's go." Dick Leitsch:It was an invasion, I mean you felt outraged and stuff like you know what, God, this is America, what's this country come to? Raymond Castro:If that light goes on, you know to stop whatever you're doing, and separate. The newly restored 1984 documentary "Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community," re-released to coincide with the 50th anniversary of the seminal Stonewall riots, remains a . All kinds of designers, boxers, big museum people. Synopsis. I would get in the back of the car and they would say, "We're going to go see faggots." Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:It really should have been called Stonewall uprising. In a spontaneous show of support and frustration, the citys gay community rioted for three nights in the streets, an event that is considered the birth of the modern Gay Rights Movement. Before Stonewall 1984 Directed by Greta Schiller, Robert Rosenberg Synopsis New York City's Stonewall Inn is regarded by many as the site of gay and lesbian liberation since it was at this bar that drag queens fought back against police June 27-28, 1969. And it would take maybe a half hour to clear the place out. Interviewer (Archival):Are you a homosexual? You see these cops, like six or eight cops in drag. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:So at that point the police are extremely nervous. Narrator (Archival):Richard Enman, president of the Mattachine Society of Florida, whose goal is to legalize homosexuality between consenting adults, was a reluctant participant in tonight's program. They put some people on the street right in front ofThe Village Voiceprotesting the use of the word fag in my story. This was ours, here's where the Stonewall was, here's our Mecca. We don't know. 'Before Stonewall' Tracks the Pre-Movement Era | International John DiGiacomo Narrator (Archival):Sure enough, the following day, when Jimmy finished playing ball, well, the man was there waiting. A lot of them had been thrown out of their families. There were gay bars in Midtown, there were gay bars uptown, there were certain kinds of gay bars on the Upper East Side, you know really, really, really buttoned-up straight gay bars. Nobody. 1969: The Stonewall Uprising - Library of Congress Directors Greta Schiller Robert Rosenberg (co-director) Stars Rita Mae Brown Maua Adele Ajanaku A gay rights march in New York in favor of the 1968 Civil Rights Act being amended to include gay rights. A word that would be used in the 1960s for gay men and lesbians. All I knew about was that I heard that there were people down in Times Square who were gay and that's where I went to. Leaflets in the 60s were like the internet, today. And today we're talking about Stonewall, which were both pretty anxious about so anxious. People standing on cars, standing on garbage cans, screaming, yelling. My last name being Garvin, I'd be called Danny Gay-vin. Before Stonewall | The New York Public Library Director . Raymond Castro:We were in the back of the room, and the lights went on, so everybody stopped what they were doing, because now the police started coming in, raiding the bar. Geoff Kole Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:A rather tough lesbian was busted in the bar and when she came out of the bar she was fighting the cops and trying to get away. Do you want them to lose all chance of a normal, happy, married life? That's more an uprising than a riot. And that's what it was, it was a war. But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. And they were lucky that door was closed, they were very lucky. The very idea of being out, it was ludicrous. John O'Brien:I was with a group that we actually took a parking meter out of theground, three or four people, and we used it as a battering ram. And we were singing: "We are the Village girls, we wear our hair in curls, we wear our dungarees, above our nellie knees." We had no speakers planned for the rally in Central Park, where we had hoped to get to. How do you think that would affect him mentally, for the rest of their lives if they saw an act like that being? That's it. Few photographs of the raid and the riots that followed exist. You know, Howard's concern was and my concern was that if all hell broke loose, they'd just start busting heads. Danny Garvin:People were screaming "pig," "copper." Chris Mara, Production Assistants Dick Leitsch:Well, gay bars were the social centers of gay life. Narrator (Archival):Do you want your son enticed into the world of homosexuals, or your daughter lured into lesbianism? [2][3] Later in 2019, the film was selected by the Library of Congress for preservation in the United States National Film Registry for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[4][5][6]. Before Stonewall - Rotten Tomatoes Martin Boyce:It was another great step forward in the story of human rights, that's what it was. Frank Kameny ", Martin Boyce:People in the neighborhood, the most unlikely people were starting to support it. Martin Boyce:In the early 60s, if you would go near Port Authority, there were tons of people coming in. Slate:In 1969, homosexual acts were illegal in every state except Illinois. Why 'Before Stonewall' Was Such a Hard Movie to Make - The Atlantic When you exit, have some identification and it'll be over in a short time." There was all these drags queens and these crazy people and everybody was carrying on. You needed a license even to be a beautician and that could be either denied or taken away from you. Eric Marcus, Writer:It was incredibly hot. I went in there and they took bats and just busted that place up. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:And I keep listening and listening and listening, hoping I'm gonna hear sirens any minute and I was very freaked. Where did you buy it? America thought we were these homosexual monsters and we were so innocent, and oddly enough, we were so American. TV Host (Archival):Are those your own eyelashes? Dick Leitsch:And so the cops came with these buses, like five buses, and they all were full of tactical police force. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:And they were, they were kids. Martin Boyce:I heard about the trucks, which to me was fascinated me, you know, it had an imagination thing that was like Marseilles, how can it only be a few blocks away? Prisoner (Archival):I realize that, but the thing is that for life I'll be wrecked by this record, see? Gay bars were to gay people what churches were to blacks in the South. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter,The Village Voice:It was a bottle club which meant that I guess you went to the door and you bought a membership or something for a buck and then you went in and then you could buy drinks. Available on Prime Video, Tubi TV, iTunes. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD:Our radio was cut off every time we got on the police radio. Noah Goldman I learned, very early, that those horrible words were about me, that I was one of those people. Maureen Jordan And the rest of your life will be a living hell. Howard Smith, Reporter,The Village Voice:But there were little, tiny pin holes in the plywood windows, I'll call them the windows but they were plywood, and we could look out from there and every time I went over and looked out through one of those pin holes where he did, we were shocked at how big the crowd had become. Fred Sargeant:The effect of the Stonewall riot was to change the direction of the gay movement. The events. It was like a reward. Things were being thrown against the plywood, we piled things up to try to buttress it. This documentary uses extensive archival film, movie clips and personal recollections to construct an audiovisual history of the gay community before the Stonewall riots. Linton Media Jimmy knew he shouldn't be interested but, well, he was curious. They were the storm troopers. Katrina Heilbroner And it was fantastic. Participants of the 1969 Greenwich Village uprising describe the effect that Stonewall had on their lives. Frank Simon's documentary follows the drag contestants of 1967's Miss All-American Camp Beauty Pageant, capturing plenty of on- and offstage drama along the way. Raymond Castro:Society expected you to, you know, grow up, get married, have kids, which is what a lot of people did to satisfy their parents. What finally made sense to me was the first time I kissed a woman and I thought, "Oh, this is what it's about." And I said to myself, "Oh my God, this will not last.". Alan Lechner Martin Boyce:It was thrilling. Alexis Charizopolis BBC Worldwide Americas Audience Member (Archival):I was wondering if you think that there are any quote "happy homosexuals" for whom homosexuality would be, in a way, their best adjustment in life? A New York Police officer grabs a man by the hair as another officer clubs a. Danny Garvin:There was more anger and more fight the second night. Martin Boyce:For me, there was no bar like the Stonewall, because the Stonewall was like the watering hole on the savannah. They would not always just arrest, they would many times use clubs and beat. That wasn't ours, it was borrowed. Dick Leitsch:There were Black Panthers and there were anti-war people. Narrator (Archival):Note how Albert delicately pats his hair, and adjusts his collar. The most infamous of those institutions was Atascadero, in California. But as we were going up 6th Avenue, it kept growing. Your choice, you can come in with us or you can stay out here with the crowd and report your stuff from out here. I said, "I can go in with you?" Seymour Wishman Dick Leitsch:And the blocks were small enough that we could run around the block and come in behind them before they got to the next corner. And all of a sudden, pandemonium broke loose. When police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City on June 28, 1969, the street erupted into violent protests that lasted for the next six days. Raymond Castro:So finally when they started taking me out, arm in arm up to the paddy wagon, I jumped up and I put one foot on one side, one foot on the other and I sprung back, knocking the two arresting officers, knocking them to the ground. Danny Garvin:And the cops just charged them. Scott McPartland/Getty Images Joe DeCola I could never let that happen and never did.

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