Major! It was a leaflet that attacked the relationship of the police and the Mafia and the bars that we needed to see ended. Narrator (Archival): Sure enough, the following day, when Jimmy finished playing ball, well, the man was there waiting. Dan Bodner I learned, very early, that those horrible words were about me, that I was one of those people. It is usually after the day at the beach that the real crime occurs. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History . Diana Davies Photographs, Manuscripts and Archives Division, The New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter, The Village Voice: The New York Times I guess printed a story, but it wasn't a major story. With the support of Google, The Center is creating Stonewall Forever in celebration of the 50-year anniversary of the Stonewall Riots. Hardcover; ... (or shot glass?) Charles Harris, Transcriptions ABCNEWS VideoSource They put some people on the street right in front of The Village Voice protesting the use of the word fag in my story. Sylvia & Marsha at Christopher Street Liberation Day March, 1973 "What began as a question mark downtown ended in an exclamation point." In the Life 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. 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. 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? It was nonsense, it was nonsense, it was all the people there, that were reacting and opposing what was occurring. You see these cops, like six or eight cops in drag. Hunted, hunted, sometimes we were hunted. Virginia Apuzzo: It was free but not quite free enough for us. They didn't know what they were walking into. Amber Hall Martin Boyce: And then more police came, and it didn't stop. Mike Wallace (Archival): Dr. Charles Socarides is a New York psychoanalyst at the Albert Einstein School of Medicine. Fred Sargeant: When it was clear that things were definitely over for the evening, we decided we needed to do something more. The windows were always cloaked. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: At the peak, as many as 500 people per year were arrested for the crime against nature, and between 3- and 5,000 people per year arrested for various solicitation or loitering crimes. So if any one of you, have let yourself become involved with an adult homosexual, or with another boy, and you're doing this on a regular basis, you better stop quick. Stonewall: The Riots that Sparked the Gay Revolution We heard one, then more and more. You know, it's just, everybody was there. People that were involved in it like me referred to it as "The First Run." 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. Jerry Hoose: And I got to the corner of Sixth Avenue and Eighth Street, crossed the street and there I had found Nirvana. The cops would hide behind the walls of the urinals. 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. … If that didn't work, they would do things like aversive conditioning, you know, show you pornography and then give you an electric shock. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History at Amazon.com. 2014 History Day Competition Documentary -- Junior Division John O'Brien: And then somebody started a fire, they started with little lighters and matches. Buy The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History by Marc Stein (ISBN: 9781479816859) from Amazon's Book Store. was thrown, The Stonewall Riots allows readers to take stock of how LGBTQ life has changed in the US, and how it has stayed the same. Virginia Apuzzo: I grew up with that. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Recensione dell'utente - Publishers Weekly. Dr. Socarides (Archival): Homosexuality is in fact a mental illness which has reached epidemiological proportions. This, to a homosexual, is no choice at all. The Stonewall Riot: A Documentary History by Marc Stein 2019 NYU Press 5.0 / 5.0 June 28,1969. He brought in gay-positive materials and placed that in a setting that people could come to and feel comfortable in. 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. 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. According to Jonathan Dent, a lexicographer at the OED, uprising became more popular in the wake of the documentary Stonewall Uprising, which was … Because he was homosexual. Founded in 1983, New York City's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender Community Center empowers people to lead healthy, successful lives. For those kisses. The mob was saying, you know, "Screw you, cops, you think you can come in a bust us up? Never, never, never. It was done in our little street talk. The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History Paperback – 11 Jun. "Don't fire. It explores how the activism of today stands on the shoulders of the activists who have come before. There may be some here today that will be homosexual in the future. That was scary, very scary. What finally made sense to me was the first time I kissed a woman and I thought, "Oh, this is what it's about." They pushed everybody like to the back room and slowly asking for IDs. The cops were barricaded inside. But you live with it, you know, you're used to this, after the third time it happened, or, the third time you heard about it, that's the way the world is. They were to us. Getting then in the car, rocking them back and forth. ISBN: 9781479816859; Published: May 2019; £27.99. In 2015, Pagonis created the hashtag campaign #intersexstories for Intersex Awareness Day. Ed Koch, mayor of New York City from 1978 to 1989, discusses gay civil rights in New York in the 1960s. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born. Stonewall has been described as the Rosa Parks moment for gay rights. The mirrors, all the bottles of liquor, the jukebox, the cigarette machines. But I had only stuck my head in once at the Stonewall. 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. Martin Boyce: That was our only block. 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. Cause I was from the streets. Jerry Hoose: I mean the riot squad was used to riots. Jerry Hoose: The bar itself was a toilet. And it was those loudest people, the most vulnerable, the most likely to be arrested, were the ones that were doing the real fighting. It was a way to vent my anger at being repressed. The first police officer that came in with our group said, "The place is under arrest. It must have been terrifying for them. Linton Media Danny Garvin: With Waverly Street coming in there, West Fourth coming in there, Seventh Avenue coming in there, Christopher Street coming in there, there was no way to contain us. 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. Barney Karpfinger Because as the police moved back, we were conscious, all of us, of the area we were controlling and now we were in control of the area because we were surrounded the bar, we were moving in, they were moving back. Ellen Goosenberg We were going to propose something that all groups could participate in and what we ended up producing was what's now known as the gay pride march. Howard Smith, Reporter, The Village Voice: It was getting worse and worse. Danny Garvin: We had thought of women's rights, we had thought of black rights, all kinds of human rights, but we never thought of gay rights, and whenever we got kicked out of a bar before, we never came together. People talk about being in and out now, there was no out, there was just in. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter, The Village Voice: And then the next night. John O'Brien: Heterosexuals, legally, had lots of sexual outlets. Stonewall Uprising is a 2010 American documentary film examining the events surrounding the Stonewall riots that began during the early hours of June 28, 1969. It was fun to see fags. This online resource is a research supplement to Marc Stein, The Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History (New York: New York University Press, 2019). Franco Sacchi, Additional Animation and Effects Stonewall Forever is a living monument to 50 years of Pride. Published by: NYU Press. Doric Wilson It was as bad as any situation that I had met in during the army, had just as much to worry about. He vowed to spend the rest of his life on a new vocation. Andy Frielingsdorf, Reenactment Actors It's the first time I'm fully inside the Stonewall. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt: Those of us that were the street kids we didn't think much about the past or the future. American Airlines And Howard said, "Boy there's like a riot gonna happen here," and I said, "yeah." The Mafia owned the jukeboxes, they owned the cigarette machines and most of the liquor was off a truck hijacking. The riots are largely seen as the turning point in establishing what gay rights there are today. What Jimmy didn't know is that Ralph was sick. He is the former board president of InterAct, a legal advocacy organization protecting intersex youth. And just as Ms Parks' refusal to give up her seat on a bus in Alabama to a … My father said, "About time you fags rioted.". Producers Library BBC Worldwide Americas We'd say, "Here comes Lillian.". This film doesn’t answer these questions but instead it aims to expand the story of Stonewall by including more voices in its telling. If there had been a riot of that proportion in Harlem, my God, you know, there'd have been cameras everywhere. The Stonewall Riots by Marc Stein et. And these were meat trucks that in daytime were used by the meat industry for moving dead produce, and they really reeked, but at nighttime, that's where people went to have sex, you know, and there would be hundreds and hundreds of men having sex together in these trucks. Vanessa Ezersky Raymond Castro: There were mesh garbage cans being lit up on fire and being thrown at the police. We'll put new liquor in there, we'll put a new mirror up, we'll get a new jukebox." And you will be caught, don't think you won't be caught, because this is one thing you cannot get away with. NBC News Archives And some people came out, being very dramatic, throwing their arms up in a V, you know, the victory sign. Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD: If someone was dressed as a woman, you had to have a female police officer go in with her. We could lose our memory from the beating, we could be in wheelchairs like some were. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: In states like New York, there were a whole basket of crimes that gay people could be charged with. is a free NetGalley ebook that I read in late April. There's a little door that slides open with this power-hungry nut behind that, you see this much of your eyes, and he sees that much of your face, and then he decides whether you're going to get in. And they were having a meeting at town hall and there were 400 guys who showed up, and I think a couple of women, talking about these riots, 'cause everybody was really energized and upset and angry about it. The documentary discusses the Stonewall riots, a six-day period beginning on June 28, 1969, during which the LGBTQ+ community protested against a police raid on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn, in Greenwich Village, NYC. I actually thought, as all of them did, that we were going to be killed. 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. And, you know, The Village Voice at that point started using the word "gay.". (c) 2011 The Stonewall uprising took place in the context of broader civil rights movements. It was as if an artist had arranged it, it was beautiful, it was like mica, it was like the streets we fought on were strewn with diamonds. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: Gay people who were sentenced to medical institutions because they were found to be sexual psychopaths, were subjected sometimes to sterilization, occasionally to castration, sometimes to medical procedures, such as lobotomies, which were felt by some doctors to cure homosexuality and other sexual diseases. Jerry Hoose: Who was gonna complain about a crackdown against gay people? There were occasions where you did see people get night-sticked, or disappear into a group of police and, you know, everybody knew that was not going to have a good end. They were just holding us almost like in a hostage situation where you don't know what's going to happen next. The Stonewall Riots A Documentary History. Marc Stein . Everyday low prices and free delivery on eligible orders. And it was fantastic. Is that conceivable? They raided the Checkerboard, which was a very popular gay bar, a week before the Stonewall. Marsha P, Johnson was at The Stonewall Inn on the first night of the riots. All the rules were off in the '60s. 352 Pages, 7.00 x 10.00 in, 9 black and white illustrations. David Carter Samual Murkofsky Dick Leitsch: So it was mostly goofing really, basically goofing on them. The New York Times / Redux Pictures Here are my ID cards, you knew they were phonies. The mayor of New York City, the police commissioner, were under pressure to clean up the streets of any kind of quote unquote "weirdness." WPA Film Library, Thanks to We were all there. 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. This specific ISBN edition is currently not available. Fred Sargeant: The press did refer to it in very pejorative terms, as a night that the drag queens fought back. And there was like this tension in the air and it just like built and built. Lucian Truscott, IV, Reporter, The Village Voice: All of straight America, in terms of the middle class, was recoiling in horror from what was happening all around them at that time, in that summer and the summer before. Glenn Fukushima Every arrest and prosecution is a step in the education of the public to the solution of the problem. And that, that was a very haunting issue for me. Katrina Heilbroner He said, "Okay, let's go." I grew up in a very Catholic household and the conflict of issues of redemption, of is it possible that if you are this thing called homosexual, is it possible to be redeemed? Not even us. Although the documents included in Stonewall Riots: A Documentary History do not go beyond 1973, they can (and do) assist in developing a more accurate and complicated snapshot of the facts and conceivable effects of Stonewall. Gay bars were always on side streets out of the way in neighborhoods that nobody would go into. And they were lucky that door was closed, they were very lucky. People could take shots at us. At least if you had press, maybe your head wouldn't get busted. You needed a license even to be a beautician and that could be either denied or taken away from you. The shop had been threatened, we would get hang-up calls, calls where people would curse at us on the phone, we'd had vandalism, windows broken, streams of profanity. They were supposed to be weak men, limp-wristed. Barak Goodman And, it was, I knew I would go through hell, I would go through fire for that experience. Things were being thrown against the plywood, we piled things up to try to buttress it. Raymond Castro: If that light goes on, you know to stop whatever you're doing, and separate. I would wait until there was nobody left to be the girl and then I would be the girl. Homosexuality was a dishonorable discharge in those days, and you couldn't get a job afterwards. I just thought you had to get through this, and I thought I could get through it, but you really had to be smart about it. Detective John Sorenson, Dade County Morals & Juvenile Squad (Archival): There may be some in this auditorium. Mike Wallace (Archival): Two out of three Americans look upon homosexuals with disgust, discomfort or fear. Then during lunch, Ralph showed him some pornographic pictures. I went in there and they took bats and just busted that place up. 2019 by Marc Stein (Author) › Visit Amazon's Marc Stein Page. Eventually something was bound to blow. I really thought that, you know, we did it. Howard Smith, Reporter, The Village Voice: All of a sudden, in the background I heard some police cars. So I attempted suicide by cutting my wrists. Dick Leitsch: And I remember it being a clear evening with a big black sky and the biggest white moon I ever saw. Prisoner (Archival): I realize that, but the thing is that for life I'll be wrecked by this record, see? Seymour Pine, Deputy Inspector, Morals Division, NYPD: They were sexual deviates. 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. Published by: NYU Press. As the riots progressed, an international gay rights movement was born. Danny Garvin: People were screaming "pig," "copper." It was the only time I was in a gladiatorial sport that I stood up in. Collection Summary. And the cops got that. Raymond Castro: I'd go in there and I would look and I would just cringe because, you know, people would start touching me, and "Hello, what are you doing there if you don't want to be touched?" When you exit, have some identification and it'll be over in a short time." Quentin Heilbroner Doric Wilson: And we were about 100, 120 people and there were people lining the sidewalks ahead of us to watch us go by, gay people, mainly. "You could have got us in a lot of trouble, you could have got us closed up." He worked for New York City’s Commission on Human Rights for 18 years, where he helped pass the gay rights bill in 1986. 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. TV Host (Archival): And Sonia is that your own hair? Miss Major Griffin-Gracy in MAJOR!, the 2015 documentary about her life. "Daybreak Express" by D.A. Narrator (Archival): Note how Albert delicately pats his hair, and adjusts his collar. And as I'm looking around to see what's going on, police cars, different things happening, it's getting bigger by the minute. 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. Scott Kardel, Project Administration Danny Garvin: We became a people. We did use humor to cover pain, frustration, anger. And I ran into Howard Smith on the street, The Village Voice was right there. Danny Garvin: It was the perfect time to be in the Village. I was a man. That was our world, that block. Chella Man is a Deaf, genderqueer artist currently transitioning on testosterone. And they started smashing their heads with clubs. Naturally, you get careless, you fall for it, and the next thing you know, you have silver bracelets on both arms. I mean they were making some headway. and I didn't see anything but a forest of hands. And the police escalated their crackdown on bars because of the reelection campaign. One time, a bunch of us ran into somebody's car and locked the door and they smashed the windows in. The Stonewall Uprising Interviews Collection is comprised of 48 raw interviews from the American Experience documentary of the same name. John O'Brien: They went for the head wounds, it wasn't just the back wounds and the leg wounds. We could easily be hunted, that was a game. I was never seduced by an older person or anything like that. It weaves together the perspectives of the participants, from Deputy Inspector Seymour Pine, who marshaled the raid, to Sylvia Rivera, one of the drag queens who battled most fiercely that night. They call them hotels, motels, lovers' lanes, drive-in movie theaters, etc. Pidgeon Pagonis is an intersex American activist, writer, artist, and consultant. Calling 'em names, telling 'em how good-looking they were, grabbing their butts. Publisher: NYU Press, 2019. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City: Gay rights, like the rights of blacks, were constantly under attack and while blacks were protected by constitutional amendments coming out of the Civil War, gays were not protected by law and certainly not the Constitution. America thought we were these homosexual monsters and we were so innocent, and oddly enough, we were so American. Greg Shea, Legal Just let's see if they can. Doric Wilson: In those days, the idea of walking in daylight, with a sign saying, "I'm a faggot," was horren--, nobody, nobody was ready to do that. Judith Kuchar Pamela Gaudiano Softcover ISBN 10: 147981685X ISBN 13: 9781479816859. Howard Smith, Reporter, The Village Voice: I had been in some gay bars either for a story or gay friends would say, "Oh we're going to go in for a drink there, come on in, are you too uptight to go in?" We didn't expect we'd ever get to Central Park. But as visibility increased, the reactions of people increased. Narrator (Archival): This is one of the county's principal weekend gathering places for homosexuals, both male and female. Ed Koch, Councilman, New York City: There were complaints from people who objected to the wrongful behavior of some gays who would have sex on the street. William Eskridge, Professor of Law: The federal government would fire you, school boards would fire you. Tommy Lanigan-Schmidt: We would scatter, ka-poom, every which way. The overwhelming number of medical authorities said that homosexuality was a mental defect, maybe even a form of psychopathy. So it was a perfect storm for the police. He may appear normal, and it may be too late when you discover he is mentally ill. John O'Brien: I was a poor, young gay person. On one particular night, June 28 th, 1969, the Stonewall Inn became a symbol of resistance, and started the LGBT movement. Do you want them to lose all chance of a normal, happy, married life? She is still active in creating housing for those in need, and fighting against prejudice and hate. Marjorie Duffield And that's what it was, it was a war. All rights reserved. Bianey Garcia is a community organizer at Make the Road New York, a non-profit organization providing services and advocacy for Latinx and working class communities in Queens. The Stonewall had reopened. I never believed in that. Dr. Socarides (Archival): I think the whole idea of saying "the happy homosexual" is to, uh, to create a mythology about the nature of homosexuality. John O'Brien: All of a sudden, the police faced something they had never seen before. Meanwhile, there was crowds forming outside the Stonewall, wanting to know what was going on. Martha Shelley: We participated in demonstrations in Philadelphia at Independence Hall. They can be anywhere. Danny Garvin: There was more anger and more fight the second night. Stonewall Uprising is a 2010 American documentary film examining the events surrounding the Stonewall riots that began during the early hours of June 28, 1969. Because its all right in the Village, but the minute we cross 14th street, if there's only ten of us, God knows what's going to happen to us.". And here they were lifting things up and fighting them and attacking them and beating them. I said, "I can go in with you?" Richard Enman (Archival): Well, let me say, first of all, what type of laws we are not after, because there has been much to-do that the Society was in favor of the legalization of marriage between homosexuals, and the adoption of children, and such as that, and that is not at all factual at all. Ga naar primaire content.nl. 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? This was the first time I could actually sense, not only see them fearful, I could sense them fearful. Gay people were not powerful enough politically to prevent the clampdown and so you had a series of escalating skirmishes in 1969. 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