When police raided Stonewall, gay men and women did something they had not done before: they fought back...

"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.
The scene at the Mafia-run gay bar in Greenwich Village in June of 1969 ushered in a new beginning in the rights movement...American Experience...8pm

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