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Stonewall Riots Film Analysis

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June is the Pride Month, and its significance can be traced back to the summer of 1969 in June when a group of LGBTQ individuals including gay men, trans individuals, lesbians, cross-dressers as well as women stood up to the police, at the Stonewall Inn, located in the Greenwich Village neighborhood of Manhattan, New York City. This event became the single most important event leading to gay liberation movement and fight for LGBT rights in the US.

Back in that time, the Stonewall Inn was the only gay club left in the New York City that allowed dancing for its patrons. Police had raided many other gay clubs with the intent to kill such spaces for they felt that the existence of such bars was the cause of disintegrating moral values of the …show more content…

Staying true to its title, the movie chronicled the years before the rioting and how those years became an important fraction of what drove the crowd that night. Writers and poets like Ann Bannon and Allen Ginsberg speak at length about their own struggles as LGBTQ people in New York and how the city helped shape them as the city is shaped by communities like theirs. The movie also featured Audre Lorde who is the famous mythographer of her life’s story compiled in the book called Zami: A New Spelling of My Name, a book that famously chronicled what it was like to grow up as a lesbian in New York in the early 60’s. The film went on to win numerous awards including an Emmy Award. Watch the trailer here - …show more content…

In the centre of the plot, we find Matty Dean, a young man who arrives in New York and falls for La Miranda, a cross-dressing sex worker. While the movie is built around the riots as its main motivating background, it also touches on a few aspects of LGBTQ life back in the 1960’s such as the entire question of masculinity within the community, and how many researchers and scientists looked at homosexuality and deviance of any kind in gender or sexuality as a mental illness. Nigel, the director, died of AIDS a few days after the shooting was wrapped for this movie. Watch the trailer here -

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