Stonewall Uprising

An educational, candid, fascinating, 90-minute, 2010 documentary, which is based on David Carter's Stonewall: The Riots That Sparked the Gay Revolution that examines the discrimination of homosexuals from their mistreatment in mental institutions in the 1950s to the raid of the Stonewall Tavern in Greenwich Village in 1969 through the use of still photographs, film snippets, and interviews with homosexuals (such as Doric Wilson, John O'Brien, Danny Garvin, Raymond Castro, Martin Boyce, Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt, Jerry Hoose, Fred Sergeant, and Dick Leitsch), lesbians (such as Martha Shelley, Virginia Apuzzao, and Yvonne Ritter), politician Ed Koch, law professor William Eskridge, NYPD deputy inspector Seymour Pine, writers Eric Marcus and David Carter, and reporters Howard Smith and Lucian Truscott, IV.
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