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“Stonewall”
a moving study of gays
By Jay Carr, The Boston Globe.
Stonewall – the name of the Greenwich Village bar where
gays rioted in 1969 after police crackdowns – is one of
those convenient historical pivot points. After Stonewall, gay
life came out of the closet en masse and gay pride began.
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“Screening
America’s Hidden Gay History”
by Allan Ulrich, San Francisco Examiner, April 13, 1985
“Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian
Community” is an absorbing, shocking, revealing, humorous
and thoroughly compassionate documentary on one of the more
necessary and more articulate liberation movements of the
era. Fresh from winning this year’s Los Angeles Filmex
award for best American independent feature (non-ficiton),
the film is currently at the Roxie for a limited run, through
next Saturday.
The guiding philosophy behind Greta Schiller’s direction
would seem to be enlightenment rather than proselytizing,
thanks to both rare and familiar historical footage and a
host of first-person interviews with gay men and women who
peopled the barricades when they were considered both insane
and criminal. That is, when they were considered at all. read
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"You owe it to yourself to see
it. Laced with humor and irony ... of vital interest to everyone."
-- Judith Crist, TV Guide |
"An absorbing, shocking, revealing,
humorous and thoroughly compassionate documentary."
-- San Francisco Examiner |
"I can't praise 'Before Stonewall'
too highly. It's a fascinating document. It's worth seeing over
and over again."
-- Stage and Screen, London |
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