Stonewall Uprising: American Experience

Wed, Jun 3 8:30 P.M. NH World (11.3)  

"Stonewall Uprising" explores the dramatic event that launched a worldwide rights movement. Told by those who took part, from drag queens and street hustlers to police detectives, journalists and a former mayor of New York, and featuring a rich trove of archival footage, this film revisits a time when homosexual acts were illegal throughout America, and homosexuality itself was seen as a form of mental illness. Hunted and often entrapped by undercover police in their hometowns, gays from around the U.S. began fleeing to New York in search of a sanctuary. Hounded there still by an aggressive police force, they found refuge in a Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village, the Stonewall Inn. When police raided Stonewall on June 28, 1969, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back. As the streets of New York erupted into violent protests and street demonstrations, the collective anger announced that the gay rights movement had arrived.

Duration: 1 hour 23 minutes and 23 seconds

Episode Number: 2309

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Wed, Jun 3	8:30 P.M.	Stonewall Uprising: American Experience     NH World (11.3)
Thu, Jun 4	1:30 A.M.	Stonewall Uprising: American Experience     NH World (11.3)
Thu, Jun 4	9:30 A.M.	Stonewall Uprising: American Experience     NH World (11.3)

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