On the Morning of June 28, 1969 at the Stonewall Inn New York City
The Stonewall Inn located on Christopher Street along with a few other establishments in the city were run by the Genovese family. During 1966 a few members of the Mafia invested $3,500 to turn the...
View ArticleGay Liberation, Dallas, Austin, Houston
Gay Liberation, say it loud and proud. Women who love women, men who love men, out of the closet and into the street. Happiness is all gay brothers and sisters, a poster reads in this mini documentary...
View ArticleThe Pink Triangle and the Part It Played in the Holocaust
The history of the Pink Triangle begins before World War II, during Adolph Hitler’s rise to power. During that time German law prohibited gay relations and was revised by Hitler in 1935 to include...
View ArticleLosing Your Job for Being Gay? Mental Institution for Being Gay? Dangerous to...
After the war in the 50s and early 60s there was a homophile movement that started developing. The Mattachine Society founded in 1950 (probably second to Chicago’s lived Society For Human Rights...
View ArticleHomosexuals and the Holocaust
This is a video that was put together for a History of the Holocaust class. Parts are quite violent but the scenes tell a story of group highly persecuted by the Nazi’s. A group that to this day many...
View ArticleVarla Jean Merman’s History a – Go – Go
This Logo television video is Varla Jean Merman’s dedication to Stonewall in a short but sweet little diddy… Now you know.Varla Jean Merman is the alter ego of actor, singer and drag performer Jeffery...
View ArticleGay Civil Rights Movement During the Civil Rights Movement
Bayard Rustin was born in 1912 in West Chester, Pennsylvania of an unwed, black mother. He was raised by his Quaker grandparents and as part of his religious upbringing he was taught that the way to...
View ArticlePlaying With Stonewall 2008
“We had an idea to recreate the riots and? use the song “the Mattachine Society“. We filmed it atop my Herman Miller (George Nelson) credenza. I loved that object. Sold it. Had to for cash. Anyway,...
View ArticleHarlem, Brooklyn, the Bronx, Before Stonewall
Harlem started in 1945 a Funmakers Ball that was held every Thanksgiving which lasted into the 1960′s. Strutting and prancing. LGBT Blacks & Hispanic impersonators would fill the Harlem Rockland...
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