Date: Thursday, May 12, 2011
Start Time: 7:00 pm
Location: Saugatuck Center For The Arts
Category: Saugatuck & Douglas Events
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$5 – SCA + HAAC members, students / $7 non-members
The most thorough documentary exploration of the three days of unrest beginning June 28, 1969, when patrons of the Stonewall Inn, a seedy Mafia-operated gay bar in Greenwich Village, turned on the police after a routine raid, “Stonewall Uprising” methodically ticks off the forms of oppression visited on gays and lesbians in the days before the gay rights movement.
At the time of the riots, homosexuality was illegal in every state except Illinois. Before the laws were changed, one commentator observes, gay bars offered the same kind of social haven for an oppressed minority as black churches in the South before the civil rights movement.
Directed by Kate Davis and David Heilbroner, this all-new assemblage of rare home-movie footage, photographs, and gripping testimony from people who were there — including one of the cops who led the raid — allows viewers to experience a landmark civil rights event in a fresh and fascinating way.
Sponsored by media partner WGVU.
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Saugatuck Center For The Arts
400 Culver St
Saugatuck MI 49453
Location Phone: 269-857-2399
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