Queer Movie Night @ Library House

May 08, 2009 20:00

Published: May 06, 2009 11:18 by library house |

Published by group: The Library House
Tagged as: gender

Places: brixton camberwell library_house

stonewall

"STONEWALL"
Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life
into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians? Certainly
not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in
Greenwich Village. After a long history of police raids, extortion, and
brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decide they have had
enough and begin to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy
wagon. Told by "La Miranda" (Hector), a regular customer at the Stonewall
Inn, the film is a recounting of events that led up to that fateful day in
1969. "Matty Dean" is the handsome angry young man that La Miranda meets
at the Stonewall one day and with whom she/he quickly falls in love.
"Bostonia" is the self-styled Queen Mother of the drag queens and guides
each initiate gently "into the life." Her lover, Vinnie, is the closeted
proprietor of the Stonewall. His tragic response to the suffocation he
feels bearing down on him from a homophobic world -- perhaps as much as
anything else -- sparks the riots. This is the Stonewall Riots "As Told By
La Miranda".
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114550/

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