Before StonewallBefore Stonewall

Explores the social history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s to 1969, showing how this group has moved from a secret shame to the status of a publicly viable minority group through the 1969 police raid on Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City, and the three-day riot that followed; chronicles the history of lesbian and gay life from the riots at Stonewall to the end of the century.