Stonewall Uprising
@ Chicago Filmmakers
5720 N Ridge Ave, Chicago, IL 60660
Opening Saturday, June 8th, from 7PM - 10PM
Join us at 7:00 PM for a social hour before the screening.
7PM: Social hour / 8PM: Screening
“It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement.
Told by Stonewall patrons, reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall Uprising recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history. (Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum)
Directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, 2010, USA, 80 mins.
Presented by Chicago Filmmakers and Reeling: The Chicago LGBTQ+ International Film Festival; Co-Sponsored by Black Cat Productions. Dyke Delicious series is curated by Sharon Zurek.
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