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If these walls could talk. 2 by
Summary: Set in different decades in the same house, these stories of three lesbian couples each reflect a specific concern. In 1961, Abby and Edith, two retired schoolteachers, lead a quiet life. Abby has a stroke and dies, and her nephew and his wife come for the funeral and to sort and sell Abby's things, unaware that she and Edith were a lifelong couple. In 1972, four college-age lesbians share the house. They have problems with the campus feminism group, and Linda is drawn to Amy a very butch lesbian who wears men's clothing and drives a motorcycle. How can a feminist fall for a lesbian who acts like and dresses like a man? By 2000, long-term couple Fran and Kal want to have a child, and their quest leads from proposing sperm donation to a gay couple they know, to the horror of shopping for sperm on the Internet.
Stonewall : the making of a gay and lesbian community. by
Before Stonewall originally released in 1984 by Before Stonewall, Inc.
After Stonewall originally released in 1999 by After Stonewall, Inc.
Special features Disc 1: 1984 Interview with Allen Ginsberg by journalist Andrew Kopkind featuring two poems ("Sleeping with Kerouac" and "on the ordinariness of homosexuality"); Interview with Audre Lord and Yvonne Flowers by author Jewel Gomez (Fall, 1984); "The Black Cat:/Jose Sarria" film of the reunion of 1950's Black Cat Café community (a San Francisco nightclub) in 1983, 20 years after its closing.
Special features Disc 2: Interview with director John Scagliotti; Tribute to Vito Russo by Lily Tomlin, Dorothy Allison and Jewelle Gomez (from director John Scagliotti's series "In the Life"; Armistead Maupin on PBS selling out to the Christian right; Congressman Barney Frank on post-Stonewallian stories of travel; Jewelle Gomez on poetry as a galvanizing force, and her relationship with poet Audre Lorde; Author Dorothy Allison on making an alternative family in the late twentieth century.
Summary: Disc 1, Before Stonewall: Chronicles through interviews and historical footage the social, political and cultural history of homosexuality in America from the 1920s through 1969. Covers many of the milestones in the fight for gay acceptance and equal rights, culminating in the 1969 riots following the police raid on the Stonewall Inn, a gay bar in New York City's Greenwich Village.
Disc 2, After Stonewall: Traces the Gay Liberation Movement in America from the 1969 Stonwall riots through the 1990s capturing the hard work, tragic defeats and exciting victories experienced. Also explores how AIDS changed the direction of the movement.
Contents: Before Stonewall / executive producer, John Scagliotti ; director, Greta Schiller ; co-director, Robert Rosenberg ; producers, Robert Rosenberg, John Scagliotti, Greta Schiller ; produced by Before Stonewall, Inc. in association with Alternative Media Information Center. (1984; 87 min.) -- After Stonewall / producer/writer, John Scagliotti ; co-producers/archival directors, Janet W. Baus, Dan Hunt ; writer/historical researcher, Andrew Podell ; produced in association with the Center for Independent Documentary, Susan Walsh ; executive producers, Vic Basile, John Scagliotti (1999; 88 min.).
Disc 1, Before Stonewall: 1. Narrator Rita Mae Brown explains where to look -- 2. The early days of the 20th century -- 3. The Harlem Renaissance -- 4. The homosexual underground expands -- 5. World War II -- 6. The post-war period -- 7. The McCarthy days : homsexuals = communists -- 8. The 50's -- 9. The 60's -- 10. The Stonewall riots -- 11. Credits
Disc 2, After Stonewall: 1. Opening and funding credits -- 2. Melissa Etheridge introduction -- 3. Stonewall Riot days -- 4. After the riot - gay power -- 5. Gay men's sexual revolution -- 6. Women's voices are heard -- 7. Religion and politics in the 70's -- 8. Anita Bryant and the backlash -- 9. AIDS and Regan -- 10. Gay culture in the 80's -- 11. AIDS activism grows the movement -- 12. The great march, 1987 -- 13. The 90's - culture war -- 14. Clinton and "Don't ask, don't tell" -- 15. Gays in the mainstream -- 16. Memorials and credits
The African Americans : many rivers to cross by
Explore with Professor Henry Louis Gates, Jr., the evolution of the African-American people, as well as the multiplicity of cultural institutions, political strategies, and religious and social perspectives they developed-forging their own history, culture and society against unimaginable odds.