Cuyamaca College Stonewall Uprising Documentary Film Questions

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Documentary Film Assessment: Stonewall Uprising

  • Watch the film Stonewall Uprising [1 hour 20 minutes]
  • Answer the assessment questions for the film.

Questions

  1. What is the difference between a riot and an uprising?
  2. What were the police directed to do? How did the police feel about what they were doing?
  3. How was the Stonewall uprising covered by the media? Why are there so few surviving images and no film footage of the Stonewall riots?
  4. Do you think people’s ages affected their opinions and actions at Stonewall? Was there a generation gap between the protestors and those in a position of authority?

Stonewall Uprising

Here is the link to the film.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGBLaK0BRzY

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The LBGTQ rights movement has borrowed a lot from the Stonewall Inn with a lot of
borrowing from Lexington and Concord. There is also a lot and deep agreement of the seismic
happenings of the year 1969. After the police raid of the New York City bar, patrons protested,
and the question has always been, were there riots, did uprising happen, or was it a rebellion?
There has since been a debate about the actual meaning of Stonewall. Definitions point to riots as
being more popular. The uprising follows, and finally, rebellion comes a distant last. Calling
Stonewall a riot was kind of strategic since the event was both disruptive and violent. When
police raided the New York City...


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