. >> eliot tiber helped his parents run the el monaco, a motel not far.uld issue permits for outdoor events. >> for ten years i had a music and arts festival of my own at the el monaco on the lawn. i had an lp record player i played my favorites. judy garland was always number one. ♪ somewhere over the rainbow >> elliott was gay in aime when people did not talk openly about sexual orientation. in june, 1969, he was at the stonewall inn, a gay bar in greenwich village when patrons fought back against police brutality, touching off the modern gay rights movement. back at his parents' motel, eliot decided it was time to make his mark. he called the woodstock organizers out of the blue. >> i said, i have the permit for the festival. permit, what do you mean? a permit for the music and arts festival. >> elliott brought the organizers to meet max yazger, a local dairy farmer who agreed to rent out his prompt for the music festival. wh word got out, many locals were fearouurious. the first thing they did was surround my place. threaten to burn us down. we don't