Stonewall Week: Creators bring 'Uprising' to life
By Jim Farmer | Jun 25, 2010 | 10:59 AM
http://www.projectqatlanta.com/news_articles/view/stonewall_week_creators_bring_uprising_to_life?gid=5734Filmmakers Kate Davis and David Heilbroner originally saw their documentary "Stonewall Uprising" as a one-hour PBS special, but as they assembled footage, they realized they had enough for a feature film, opening Friday in Atlanta.
The film, opening with Out On Film as part of several special events and in conjunction with Atlanta Pride's official slate of Stonewall Week events, chronicles that fateful night on June 29, 1969 at The Stonewall Inn—a Greenwich Village gay bar—that forever changed the landscape for gay men and women.
At the time, it was still illegal to be a homosexual, and many thought homosexuality was a mental illness. On that night, police raided the bar and patrons stood up and refused to be arrested, leading to days of rioting afterwards. Approximately a year later, activists gathered and formed the first gay pride parades in several cities across the country.
