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Stonewall, the making of a gay and lesbian community

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Stonewall

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the making of a gay and lesbian community

Before Stonewall chronicles through interviews and historical footage the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s through 1969. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots following the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village. After Stonewall traces the gay liberation movement in America from the 1969 Stonewall riots through the 1990s capturing the hard work, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced. Also explores how AIDS changed the direction of the movement

Disc 1, Before Stonewall: 1. Narrator Rita Mae Brown explains where to look -- 2. The early days of the 20th century -- 3. The Harlem Renaissance -- 4. The homosexual underground expands -- 5. World War II -- 6. The post-war period -- 7. The McCarthy days : homosexuals = communists -- 8. The 50's -- 9. The 60's -- 10. The Stonewall riots -- 11. Credits --Disc 2, After Stonewall: 1. Opening and funding credits -- 2. Melissa Etheridge introduction -- 3. Stonewall Riot days -- 4. After the riot - gay power -- 5. Gay men's sexual revolution -- 6. Women's voices are heard -- 7. Religion and politics in the 70's -- 8. Anita Bryant and the backlash -- 9. AIDS and Regan -- 10. Gay culture in the 80's -- 11. AIDS activism grows the movement -- 12. The great march, 1987 -- 13. The 90's - culture war -- 14. Clinton and "Don't ask, don't tell" -- 15. Gays in the mainstream -- 16. Memorials and credits

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