After Stonewall
by John Scagliotti
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Actor: Anita Bryant, Barney Frank, Harry Hay, Larry Kramer, Sheila James KuehlDirector: John Scagliotti
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, NTSC
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 88 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2005-01-18
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: FIRST RUN FEATURES
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Movie Review: This is WHY we celebrate G*A*Y PRIDE!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Along with Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community and Paris Is Burning, AFTER STONEWALL is another documentary that is indispensable in learning about LGBT history.
AFTER STONEWALL picks up where Before Stonewall: The Making of a Gay and Lesbian Community left off--right at the flash point of the riots at the Stonewall Inn in New York City, 1969. It's narrated by Melissa Etheridge and shows incredible footage of police raids on gay bars, pride marches, and protests. And it includes footage from hate mongers Anita Bryant, Jesse Helms, Ronald Reagan and Jerry Falwell.
There are also still pictures and news paper clippings that help exemplify what was happening at the time. Interviews with LGBT activists like Dorothy Allison, Barbara Gittings, Harry Hay, Larry Kramer, Jewelle Gomez and others, who could not or would not hide in the shadows, only punctuate the story.
And the story goes right into the AIDS epidemic and the many that died as a result of government inaction. The film takes the viewer up to 1999 and shows how far the LGBT community has come...and how much farther we still must go.
When you see the struggle that these LGBT people took upon their shoulders, I defy anyone NOT to understand why we celebrate gay pride day. It is because of these brave souls that have made my generation and each successive generation of LGBT people lives a little easier.
I recommend this documentary to anyone who's gay or lesbian or who has a family member that is. The film runs about 88-minutes and has extra features that include: interview with director John Scagliotti; Dorothy Allison and Jewelle Gomez remember Vito Russo(The Celluloid Closet: Homosexuality in the Movies); Armistead Maupin (Tales of the City (Tales of the City Series, V. 1)) talks about the Christian Right and the pressure on PBS to halt production of More Tales of the City mini-series; Barney Frank talks about travel with ex-boyfriend; Jewelle Gomez discusses the power of poetry; and Dorothy Allison discusses her alternative family that includes her lover, and their best friend who is a gay man who fathered their son.
Although trans-gendered issues are lacking in this documentary, I cannot sing the praises of this film enough!
Summary of After Stonewall
The companion film to Before Stonewall, After Stonewall, narrated by Melissa Etheridge, explores gay history in the U.S. from the 1970s through the 1990s. Like its predecessor, After Stonewall attempts to cover much ground in a short amount of time; however, with only three decades to span, the assignment is more manageable.The film covers the predictable highs and lows of the last 30 years of the 20th century. On the side of triumph, it explores the declassification of homosexuality as a disease; the growth of gay presses and writers; gay wins in political office (notably Harvey Milk and Elaine Noble); and the formation of a national gay lobbying presence in the Human Rights Fund. On the flip side, we witness the antigay hysteria evoked by Anita Bryant; the rise of AIDS, the blind eye of the federal government; and the growth of the Christian Coalition. Perhaps the most significant contribution of this film is its mapping of a gay presence within popular media. Through TV shows such as South Park and covers of Newsweek and Time, as well as "out" popular performers like k.d. lang and Ellen DeGeneres, the case is made that gay culture has "arrived" in America--a huge leap from the days before Stonewall when the common idea of a gay person was someone to snicker at or otherwise dismiss as a lunatic. --Katy Ankenman
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