Before Stonewall [videorecording] : the making of a gay and lesbian community / produced by Before Stonewall, Inc. in association with Alternative Media Information Center ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; director, Greta Schiller.
Publisher: New York, NY : First Run Features, [200-?]
Description: 1 videodisc (87 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Subject: Gay liberation movement United States History.
Homosexuality United States History 20th century.
Lesbianism United States History 20th century.
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Documentary films.
Credits: Editor, Bill Daughton.
Performers: Narrator, Rita Mae Brown.
Audre Lorde, Harry Hay, Barbara Gittings, Allen Ginsberg.
Notes: Documentary.
Videodisc release of the 1985 documentary film.
Special features: two poems by Allen Ginsberg; never before seen footage; interviews.
Summary: Traces the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969; the beginning of the Gay Liberation Movement after a police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City; and the three-day riot that followed.
