American experience. / Interview with Virginia Apuzzo, a lesbian who talks about growing up gay in the 1950s. growing up Catholic, Civil Rights movement, bars

American experience. Stonewall uprising. Interview with Virginia Apuzzo. Part 1.

In the early morning hours of June 28, 1969 police raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular gay bar in the Greenwich Village section of New York City. Such raids were not unusual in the late 1960s, an era when homosexual sex was illegal in every state but Illinois. That night, however, the street erupted...

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Format: Electronic Video
Language:English
Published: Boston, MA : WGBH Educational Foundation, 2011.
Subjects:
Stonewall Riots, New York, N.Y., 1969.
Gay liberation movement > United States > History.
Homosexuality > United States > History > 20th century.
Gay people > United States > Social conditions.
Gay rights > Religious aspects > Catholic Church.
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