After Stonewall
Subtitle: from the riots to the millennium
By: producer/writer, John Scagliotti
Contributors: Etheridge, Melissa; Baus, Janet; Hunt, Dan; Basile, Vic; Allison, Dorothy; Gomez, Jewelle, 1948-; Maupin, Armistead; Bronski, Michael; Brown, Rita Mae; Frank, Barney, 1940-; Kramer, Larry; Lucas, Craig; First-Run Features (Firm)
Series: POL 320 (NU course)
Publisher: First Run Features
Published: 2005
Place of publication: New York, NY
Language: eng
Format: [videorecording] :
Number of pages: 88
Subjects: Lesbians; Gay men; Human rights workers; Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969
Description: 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. With this outpouring of courage and unity the Gay Liberation Movement had begun. Chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century. Captures the hard work, struggles, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced since then. It explores how AIDS literally changed the direction of the movement.
Notes: Title from container.

Originally released in 1999.

Special features: Interview with director John Scagliotti; Dorothy Allison & Jewelle Gomez on Vito Russo; Armistead Maupin on PBS and the Christian Right; Barney Frank on Post-Stonewallian stories of travel; Jewelle Gomez on poetry as a galvanizing force; Dorothy Allison on making an alternative family; trailer gallery.

Co-producers/archival directors, Janet W. Baus, Dan Hunt ; executive producers, Vic Basile, John Scagliotti.

Narrator: Melissa Etheridge ; featuring: Dorothy Allison, Michael Bronski, Rita Mae Brow, Barney Frank, Barbara Gittings, Arnie Kantrowitz, Larry Karmer, Craig Lucas, Armistead Maupin, Leslea Newman, Barbara Smith.

MPAA rating: Not rated.

DVD, region 1, full screen (1.33:1) presentation; Dolby Digital, NTSC..

L.A. Outfest, 1999: Audience Award Outstanding Documentary Feature (John Scagliotti).