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	Stonewall \| The A.V. Club
		The 1969 riot at New York's Stonewall Inn, a protest against unfair treatment of its gay patrons by the police, is generally considered the beginning of the modern gay-rights movement.
		Stonewall is a fictionalized account of that watershed moment by the late director Nigel Finch, and for the most part, it serves as a respectful tribute to the event.
		In a notable performance, Guillermo Diaz is the film's narrator, a jaded drag queen in love with a newcomer to the big city who is in turn torn between the timid political-protest groups he joins and the more flamboyant lifestyle of the Stonewall patrons.
	www.avclub.com /content/node/2946/print (202 words)

	Stonewall (movie review)
		Stonewall, the film, attempts to capture this blend of historical fact-finding, social analysis, and engaging narrative.
		Since it is at the center of most of the action of the film, and all of the main characters either work for or patronize the bar, it would seem realistic that the story does not really center on lesbians.
		Finally, it is unfortunate that a film that embraces many of the complexities and conflicts of gay male culture shies away from exploring the difficulties that gay men and lesbians, in fact, often have in forging social and political alliances.
	www.lib.berkeley.edu /MRC/stonewall.html (1597 words)

	Stonewall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		STONEWALL follows the lives of a half-dozen gay New Yorkers in the weeks leading up to the Stonewall riots while examining police harassment, Mafia control of gay bars, and the general oppression and homophobia faced by gay men and women in the days before the Stonewall Riots launched the Gay Rights Movement in earnest.
		STONEWALL was directed by Nigel Finch, who recreated not only the Stonewall Inn but the Sheridan Square of the late 1960's.
		STONEWALL, the album and the film, is a celebration of the fight for individual liberty and dignity beating at the core of the Gay Rights Movement.
	www.sonymusic.com /artists/Stonewall/Stonewall.html (575 words)

	'Stonewall' stands out at Outfest
		However, "Stonewall" manages to transcend even its own high-concept pretension of capturing a revolution by capturing the essence of a few of the revolution's participants.
		Nigel Finch's film does a beautiful job of capturing not only the apprehension and fear some gays felt in the pre-Stonewall era but the subtle undercurrent that led to the rebellion against a police raid one hot night at the Stonewall Inn on New York City's Christopher Street.
		The film's central conceit, other than purporting to document the fictional lives of some very tame hustlers, is that Arquette's name is Johnand so are the names of half the people he meets, not that this has any more significance than mere coincidence.
	www.usc.edu /student-affairs/dt/V128/N09/01-stonewall.09d.html (854 words)

	Socialism Today, Issue 40 - The Stonewall riots - 1969
		The word 'Stonewall' has entered the vocabulary of lesbians, gay men, bisexuals and transgendered people everywhere as a potent emblem of the gay community making a stand against oppression and demanding full equality in every area of life.
		And a prominent gay rights group in Britain passes under the name Stonewall, although its strategy of backroom lobbying and deals with the New Labour government is far removed from the heroic spirit of resistance shown on Christopher Street in June 1969.
		In the documentary film Before Stonewall, a lesbian ex-servicewoman called Johnnie Phelps relates how she was called in with another female NCO to see the general-in-command of her battalion - which she estimated was '97% lesbian'.
	www.socialismtoday.org /40/stonewall40.html (3337 words)

	Gay & Lesbian Pride Month
		The film chronicles the history of the Castro district from a working class neighborhood to the center of gay and lesbian life in San Francisco.
		Narrated by Salome Jens, the film discusses the experiences of gay men and lesbians who were in the United States military service during World War II with the military's response to their sexual orientation.
		Film interweaves rare archive film of the gay bar scene in the 1940's, the vice raids of the 1950's, the gay counter culture of the 1960's and "coming out" in the 1970's up until the bar closed its doors in 1989.
	www.indiana.edu /~libsalc/film/featured/glbhistory.htm (736 words)

	Stonewall (film) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stonewall was the final film of British film director Nigel Finch, who died of an AIDS-related illness shortly after completing filming.
		While the film is a work of fiction, Finch makes the unusual directoral choice of including documentary-style interview footage with several people who were at the Stonewall Inn during the uprising.
		Stonewall was released on Region 1 DVD on October 26, 1999.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonewall_(film) (1019 words)

	Stonewall (1995) (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Stonewall is a brutal film that delivers a very strong message in a very straight forward, no crap, right to the point kind of way.
		The characters in the film are all adorable in their own way and you can really feel what they are feeling.
		Anybody that knows about Stonewall will know that the people that lived through that riot were fighting for people like myself, my boyfriend and all gay, lesbian, bi-sexual, drag queens and everyone alike.
	us.imdb.com /Title?0114550 (594 words)

	2004-2005 CMS Undergraduate Courses
		This course examines a wide variety of films ("race movies" of the early 20th century; fiction films; documentaries; animation; films made for television and the Internet) to explore how notions of African American authorship, content and reception have been defined and redefined in relation to dominant and independent media histories and institutions.
		How film practices articulated with nationalism, first in the wake of a failing "socialist pattern of development," and, then, with "liberalization," of the promise or threat "free markets" would bring, will be the major concern.
		Examples of direct cinema, cinéma vérité, the essay, ethnographic film, the diary and self-reflexive cinema, historical and biographical film, agitprop/activist forms, and guerilla television are screened and discussed.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /cmtes/cms/academics/undergradcourses0405.html (3215 words)

	Review: Stonewall
		Stonewall, the final feature film from British director Nigel Finch (who died of AIDS-related complications while editing the picture), deals with the place, not the person.
		Stonewall is not intended to be a history lesson; the time frame and setting are necessary to the story, but they are subordinate to the characters.
		Another is that, in addition to having a heart, Stonewall isn't afraid to have fun, which is a welcome change from the agenda of many grim, gay-themed motion pictures currently floating around the international film festival circuit.
	reelviews.net /movies/s/stonewall.html (692 words)

	Stonewall - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Stonewall riots, in 1969, a turning point for the modern gay rights movement
		Stonewall (film), a 1995 film about the riots
		Stonewall Democrats, an GLBT-rights group in the United States
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Stonewall (174 words)

	Harvard Gazette: Hammer's film premieres at Brattle
		Two films produced and directed by independent filmmaker Barbara Hammer, a 2001-02 fellow at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study, will be shown at the Brattle Theatre in Harvard Square Nov. 16 - 18.
		The film series, which will mark the Boston premiere of "History Lessons," is co-sponsored by the Radcliffe Institute and the Brattle.
		The film is the final installation of Hammer's trilogy on lesbian and gay histories, which also includes "Nitrate Kisses" (1993) and "Tender Fictions" (1995).
	www.news.harvard.edu /gazette/2001/11.15/11-hammer.html (430 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: Before Stonewall
		Released in 1985, it helped put a halt on the notion that homosexuality was a product of societal moral decay, a tactical assertion gay rights opponents would sometimes try to insinuate based on a supposed lack of overwhelming historical evidence to the contrary.
		Motorcycle-riding Native American advocate Dorothy (Smilie) Hillaire tells a compelling tale of how she was harassed by men in a bar until she dropped a glass ashtray on their leader's skull.
		Unlike After Stonewall (a recent PBS companion piece that basically ends with the murder of Matthew Shepard), this is a documentary that can tell the sometimes bitter truth and still conclude with an unambiguously heartening flourish.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1100 (235 words)

	Reviewers Comments on Gods and Generals
		The film accurately depicts the war as erupting from an upsurge of Southern nationalism, which obscured the moral evil of slavery behind a parade of regional pieties and slogans about a "second war of independence." For this, the movie is accused of taking the side of the Confederates.
		The film is called sanctimonious and preachy, because it shows the profoundly religious folk of 19th century America at prayer, invoking God's blessing before a battle, and dying with Bible verses on their lips.
		Though the film invites understanding instead of judgement, it is by no means a romantic apologia for the Lost Cause; rather, it is a reminder that history is rarely a Manichean struggle between pure good and uncut evil, but more often a drama played by actors with noble ideals, perhaps, but blind to their flaws.
	www.ronmaxwell.com /ggreviews.html (20155 words)

	Metroactive Movies \| Stonewall
		Stonewall, which helped to replenish the world's dwindling supply of freedom, seems a natural subject for a movie, preferably a big, gaudy, celebratory one: John Waters crossed with It's A Mad Mad Mad Mad World.
		The late director Nigel Finch's Stonewall is a quieter affair, as befits the director of the very earnest British film The Lost Language of Cranes.
		There is still a great film to be made about Stonewall; we're seeing the first of it, but we haven't seen the last of it.
	www.metroactive.com /papers/metro/07.25.96/stonewall-9630.html (501 words)

	CMS Graduate Courses
		Film screenings add three to four hours per week to class time for the majority of courses.
		A prominent manifestation of what might be called the "memory track" of culture is the musical soundtrack in films, which functions as a passive repository of memories, or becomes an active agent of remembrance.
		Film music is key to notions of nostalgia and sentiment, as well as periodic commemoration and ritual.
	humanities.uchicago.edu /cmtes/cms/academics/gradcourses0203.html (2017 words)

	transgender-net: Film - Stonewall
		Loosely based on Martin Duberman's non-fiction book Stonewall, the film follows the lives of a half dozen gay New Yorkers in the weeks leading up to the infamous riots at the Stonewall Inn.
		Over the next few days, Matty meets the other drag queens who frequent the Stonewall, Mizz Moxie and Helen Wheels, and accompanies La Miranda to a military induction center where she is quickly rejected as a "Sexual Deviant".
		The Stonewall Inn on Christopher Street in Greenwich Village gained legendary status when it was the scene of the gay-rights riots of 1969.
	www.transgender-net.de /Film/film1/stonewall.html (448 words)

	PopcornQ Movies
		Stonewall, a film about the real-life 1969 riot at the Stonewall bar in New York.
		There were no film tests on how they were going to dress me, so I was really afraid I'd be ugly.
		Diaz costarred in both versions, and in a case of odd timing, the short film Just One Time is being released as a part of Boys Life 3, just as the feature-film version is reaching theaters.
	www.planetout.com /popcornq/movienews/interviews/2000/g_diaz.html (1011 words)

	We want to start a video collection for our new office
		This film examines the background to this sudden burst of political energy-from the social experimentation of the roaring twenties, and the discovery of the size of the gay population during WW II, to the scapegoating of homosexuals during the McCarthy era, and the development of the early homophile rights movement (winner of two Emmy Awards)
		The film examines the dynamics of the parent-child relationship within several different households where children are being raised by gay and lesbian parents.
		A film portrait of women (including many lesbian) writers, artists and photographers who flocked to the Left Bank of Paris during the first half of the 20th century, this 1998 documentary, directed by Greta Schiller, recreates the mood of this creative female artistic community which fueled a world-wide renaissance in art and literature.
	www.lgbtcampus.org /faq/video_collection.html (4857 words)

	After Stonewall Productions \| Dangerous Living
		The film records the personal accounts of gays and lesbians who have transformed not only their own lives, but also American society and the world community.
		AFTER STONEWALL is the sequel to the Emmy Award-winning documentary BEFORE STONEWALL, which succeeded in bringing gay and lesbian issues to national attention with its PBS release in 1986.
		BEFORE STONEWALL, which was produced by Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti and Greta Schiller, remains a popular educational documentary repeatedly shown on public television and in homes, schools and workplaces as an honest depiction of the earliest, yet neglected, history of gay life in America.
	www.afterstonewall.com /press_as.html (511 words)

	Slant Magazine - Film Review: After Stonewall
		After Stonewall, "In the Life" creator John Scagliotti's follow-up to Before Stonewall (the extremely canonical PBS documentary on the birth of the gay movement as we know it today), was produced and televised in 1999, on the very tail end of the Clinton years.
		Though the documentary was undoubtedly created to coincide with the 30-year anniversary of the historic 1969 riots, it could just as easily have been a response to the gay community's navel-gazing in the wake of the murder of Matthew Shepard (perhaps the first major wake-up call in the community since the '80s).
		And though the final analysis reveals a documentary that basically boils the last thirty years of the gay rights movement down to fragmented, singular individual acts (which would seem tantamount to the "historical overview" format), it would be unfair to hold each isolated epiphany in skepticism.
	www.slantmagazine.com /film/film_review.asp?ID=1391 (403 words)

	After Stonewall
		The nature of the movement since Stonewall changed from that of small groups, often at the radical left, to a broadly based mass movement gaining participation from the entire range of the political and socio-economic continuum.
		Bill Clinton's political missteps and key betrayals of promises are clearly documented in the film, which may explain the absence of one of the most charismatic speakers from the community in the past generation, Ginny Apuzzo, who holds a high ranking position in the Clinton administration.
		So this is a handsomely produced film that doesn't explore new territory or forge ahead with new insight, but is useful, nonetheless, as a primer on the history of the period.
	www.culturevulture.net /Movies/AfterStonewall.htm (872 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Documentaries on DVD and Video - RainbowSauce: GLBT Resources for The Best in Queer Film (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Before Stonewall is a documentary about evolution, namely the evolution of gay culture in the U.S. from the early 1920s to the Stonewall riot of 1969.
		Overall, Before Stonewall does an admirable job of illustrating the rise of American gay culture and pinpointing the various social and political issues that were most instrumental.
		The film's tone turns bleak as Benjamin's health begins to deteriorate, but his resilient nature, and a moving appearance by Smith that provides a coda for his life, brings a bittersweet finale in this fascinating portrait of a deep dreamer.
	www.rainbowsauce.com /dvd/docodvd1.html (1442 words)

	Stonewall: The Name, The Era, The Club, The People, The Rebellion
		Therefore, the "Stonewall Era" refers to the last four years of the 1960s, that is, 1966, 1967, 1968 and 1969 inclusive.
		The main purpose of the march was to commemorate and celebrate the one-year anniversary of the 1969 Stonewall Rebellion.
		While pausing in front of The Stonewall Inn for their annual photo and prayer, Williamson explains, the Stonewall Veterans were confronted by a New York City Police Department inspector for stopping the parade.
	www.stonewallvets.org /Stonewall_Era_Club_People_Rebellion.htm (3064 words)

	MediaRights: Film: After Stonewall (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		In 1969 the police raided the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village, leading to three nights of rioting by the city's gay community.
		After Stonewall, the sequel to Before Stonewall, chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century.
		The two films, Before & After, tell the remarkable tale of how homosexuals, a heretofore hidden and despised group, became a vibrant and integral part of America's family, and, indeed, the world community.
	www.mediarights.org /film/after_stonewall (172 words)

	Gay and Lesbian Documentaries on DVD and Video - RainbowSauce: GLBT Resources for The Best in Queer Film
		Never pointing a finger at anyone in the film community, The Celluloid Closet presents clips from more than 100 mainstream features (including The Children's Hour, Advise and Consent, The Boys in the Band, and The Hunger) that speak loudly in their respective images of gays and lesbians.
		The film makes a persuasive case for patterns of sexual mythology in Hollywood, such as presenting homosexuals repeatedly as tragic, helpless figures redeemed only through death or as back-street monsters cavorting in the shadows.
		In a poignant and often humorous manner, they talk about budding love and first relationships with women as well as the forced secrecy and loneliness, tracing their personal development from self loathing and forbidden love to a hard-won sense of emotional liberation and social openness.
	www.rainbowsauce.com /dvd/docodvd2.html (1146 words)

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