Stonewall Uprising
by Kyle Thomas Smith
EDGE Contributor
Friday May 6, 2011
http://www.edgeboston.com/entertainment/television//dvd/118906/stonewall_uprisingLog Cabiners routinely discredit the Stonewall Revolution of 1969 since it involved multiracial drag queens and gay guttersnipes rioting against police brutality. Well, to paraphrase Philip Seymour Hoffman's diva doyenne in "Flawless," they should get on their Banana Republican knees and kiss the ground our insurrectionist foremamas and forepapas walked on.
By putting down their purses and pummeling the nightstick-wielding lackeys of Mayor John Lindsay's political machine, which had scaled up a crackdown on "degenerate" watering holes as part of its reelection campaign, the Stonewall habitués accomplished more on that one summer night in Greenwich Village than the sum total of buttoned-up efforts by the gay suits of the day. Sucking up to conservatives never has and never will do a damn thing for gay rights, as "Stonewall Uprising," a PBS "American Experience" production, makes clear.
