they refused to get in the paddy wagons.hey refused to follow the advice of "if you are arrested." it was a three-day riot that shook the world. major media did not cover it at all or very slightly. nicholas fun hoffman wrote in a column in the washington post, calling it "the faggot riots," up in new york, but lilli did this film. the film is epic because there is nothing like it, because she was the only one. >> here's a portion from 1970, "gay and proud." [video clip] >> at first, i was very guilty, and then i realized, of all the things that are taught you not only by society, but by psychiatrists are just to fit you in the mold. i just rejected the mold and when i rejected the mold, i was happier. >> these are independent organizations across the country. somewhere between 60 and 75 independent groups across the united states -- maybe more now because they keep growing overnight. this is a unified effort on the part of somewhere between 20 and 30 organizations on the east coast. >> that is from the film "gay and proud."

the cable in the paddy wagon. at the end of the paddy wagon i've noticed a little cop. she could queen in. two but she was resisting. she was able to kick him in the shoulder. a very good shot he went flying and he came back at likable. he dragged her into the truck are you hurt. slash bos give thin metal. and mall. we started slowly walking towards stealth. i could see the hairs on his neck rise. we just kept looking at him and focused on him but he saw. something in our eyes he was a nerve i broke and ran for the bar door. in nineteen sixty nine gay sex was illegal the american psychiatric association considered homosexuality a mental illness fifty years ago in new york city if you were. a homosexual and announced at a bar you were homosexual you wanted a drink. you could not be served you could be arrested the solicitation for entrapment but not nights mall a turning point the lgbtq community united and full back against oppression yeah. this is have a local paper reported on the uprising in twenty sixteen barack obama declared the sites of the uprising and national

noticed a cop pushing a drag queen into the paddy wagon. she was resisting.he was able to kick him in the shoulder. he went flying and he came back at her like able. i started walking towards it. i could see the hairs on his neck rise. unnerved and he broke and ran for the bar door. illegal69, gay sex was and homosexuality was considered a mental illness. homosexual, you could not be served a drink. you could be arrested. a turningght marked point. the community united and fought back against depression. the local paper reported on the uprising. ofbarack obama said in spite the uprising, a national monument, but the struggle is not over yet. >> donald trump and this administration is a threat to lgbt rights, a threat to anyone who is different. on sunday, new yorkers will fly the rainbow flag as they march with gay pride. martin will be there, proud of the part he played in the history of the gay rights movement. a look at the business news. you are starting out with the g20 summit, where trade is one of the issues topping the agenda. >> the trade has been ca

it is not at all part of the real world of stonewall where they are throwing you into paddy wagons.ifs a different era, but you are arrested" reminds us all when we had sodomy laws and simply being homosexual -- openly homosexual -- was a crime. >> as our viewers watch the stones, let's better understand who she was. born in hamburg, germany, she came to the u.s. when? mr. francis: lilli was born in .ermany in 1937 her parents brought her to the united states in 1949. she went to columbia to study literature. she joined the women's army corps, and in the women's army , whichin a gay purge they frequency had in the women's army corps, she got booted. it was one of the greatest things that ever happened to her because she was able to shed all the pretense and be who she was as an openly gay pioneer activist. growing up in a german family, there was a word kicked around her house a lot when she was growing up, she used to say. was "life artist," someone who looks at their life as a work of art. someone who masters the art of becameand i believe she one. that was part of her german heri

the time we got down there, the police had started bringing out drag queens, putting them in a paddy wagon the bar started to resist and the crowd that had come to observe this. which in and of itself was unusual, started to resist and express solidarity with the patrons who were being arrested. >> remind everyone. take us back to 50 years ago, when it was against the law to be in a bar, in a public space as a same sex couple, not even kissing, touching one another. tell me about that time. >> well, it was a very claustrophobic time. it's a time where you were always worried about your own personal safety. it wasn't just what was illegal, we were also routinely beaten up, i mean, straight people would generally guys would go into the village with the express purpose of beating people up. queer bashing is what we called it. >> you were beat up? >> i've been beat up multiple times in my life, yes. >> wow! >> we were kind of hit from all different directions, our families would disavow us. we were at risk for our own personal safety. we would be fired from our jobs if it was discovered we wer

. >> when you see these towns and you see these thugs being thrown 234509 back of a paddy wagon, thrown in, rough, i said, please don't be too nice like when you guys put somebody in the car an you're protecting their head. you put the hand like don't hit their head and they've just hit their head. i said, you can take the hand away. >> after those comments the head of a major u.s. law enforcement agency sent an email to his entire work force reminding them that in fact they could not and should not do what the president was encouraging. the acting chief of the drug enforcement agency, the d.e.a., wrote to the group the president condoned police misconduct regarding the treatment of individuals placed under arrest by law enforcement. i write to offer a strong reaffirmation of the operating principles to which we as law enforcement professionals adhere. i write because we have an obligation to speak out when something is wrong. our core values are clear and applicable. rule of law, respect and compassion, service, devotion, integrity, accountability, leadership and courage, diversity. th

the night of the riot, police were e escorting queens out t oe bar and into the paddy wagon.re was a particularly .utreous beautiful queen she was asking them not to push her. th pushed her and she turned it's a cop with her high heel. she knocked him down and proceeded to frisk and for the keys the handcuffs. she ended herself and passed them to another queen behind her. >> all hell broke loose at that time. we had to get back into the stonewall. >> my name is martin. in 1969, i was a drag queen. night, we on that sang a song "we are the village girls, we wear our hair in curls, it we wear our dungarees about our knees." police went crazy and admittedly rushed us. >>>>y name is rurudy. the night of stonewall, i was 18. that nht i wasoing more running th fightin i rember lookoking back from 10th street and there on waverly street, there was police believe a cop on his stomach in his tactical uniform with helmet and everything else, a drag queen straddling him post up she was beating the hell out of him with her shoe. it was hysterical. mama jean.is i'm a lesbian. i remember o

so there was a lot of anger when this party was broken up and people start being carted away in paddy wagonsthe irruption that followed cannot be understood on the basis of that one night and one raid. the anger that raid generated have been bubbling and brewing for decades actually in detroit after days and days of rioting. nots really clear it is going to go away. looks like key members of the black middle class asking people to go home, take these grievances up in a less dramatic fashion. and you have the white mayor jerome cavanaugh begging for peace. you even have governor romney begging for some level of order. at the end of the day, people felt they had been talking for a very long time. there was so much rage of the community level it was thentially taking in national card, troops -- national guard, troops, to get any measure of calm. we tend to think of the uprising as being the end of the story, but one of the things my research made very clear to me beginning ofis the the really important battle for the soul of the city. this is when people come out of the uprising saying, now do

could be their mothers, daughters, sisters, they didn't know how to handle throwing women in the paddy wagon. they had to possibly be reprimanded by the supervisors that your job is to arrest those women. >> how does this move from public awareness to public persuasion? they have a lot of methods and tried them all. [laughter] they have various degrees of success. i think like any public movement, there was a tipping point. these women worked really hard to convince men to vote for these laws. for women movement is until the final step. you couldn't introduce or vote for legislation. they had to depend on men for the last thing. they had these amending card -- amazing card files and research. of women's party gets a lot press for these conflicts. it also has this unbelievable database with 20 cards on every member of congress that not only talks about how he voted, whether he said anything, whatever. also, talk to his wife, she is a lot smarter. talk to himrinker, before 5:00 p.m. public,f them said in no one in my district in ohio wants suffrage, that was a show up400 letters to to his offi

happened was gay people would come out of the bars was caps on and cover their faces and go into the paddy wagon and they didn't want to be recognized. they worked for banks or advertising firms and they thought they would lose their jobs or the exposed to their wives if they were married or whatever. that is what the police were used to. they busted the stonewall inn and it was known for serving underage people. it had a sound system in the back room and there was dancing. it was a wild place. the people that they busted in the stonewall weren't like that. they didn't have jobs. they didn't have anything to lose. a lot of them were 17 and 18 years old. when they came out of the bar, they were posing and waving to their friends and saying, can you get my bail? acting like there was nothing to it. they had been busted before and it didn't bother them. the cops didn't like it. >> they didn't have the fear that so many had before? >> they didn't behave like frightened gay people. the cops didn't like it. they didn't like them standing and posing and waving. the cops started pushing them with their

would actually put people inside of this while they were holding them in custody, waiting for the paddy wagoncome and pick them up. this was the watson unit. it's a depiction of the house owned by sully and susanna watson. they came to milwaukee, wisconsin in 1850 from ohio after gaining their freedom in virginia in 1834. so, it was a hopscotch kind of immigration. virginia to ohio to milwaukee. what's interesting about their immigration, it was a family driven immigration. their oldest daughter married a barber from milwaukee. she moved here, mother and daughter longed for each other so much, there are actually letters back and forth talking about how they miss each other and how the family should be together. after the 1849 cholera outbreak in columbus, they said we're moving. they came here, by wagon, in june of 1850, settling amongst the earliest milwaukee african-american community, which at that time, was only about 100 people. the african-american community here in milwaukee was a very very, tightknit community, religious in the early years. many of the people who came here had wonderf

we threw garbage cans through the window we fought back we shaked police cars, broke paddy wagon locksewall was shut down for good, but a movement was born. the struggle for mere survival or acceptance pivoted into gay pride, held on the anniversary of the uprising. the building itself changed hands and businesses for decades, before its current owner stepped in with an eye on preserving history >> it wasn't being treated with the respect it should have been. this is where pride began. we had to bring it back to that status we didn't want to make it a museum we also wanted everyone to know the history. >> reporter: that history is still being made stonewall has transformed into a mecca and a sanctuary for mourning, like after the pulse massacre, and for celebration, like after the supreme court legalized gay marriage to some degree, this has become for the lgbtq community, a kind of emotional ground zero, isn't it >> absolutely. >> it really has become that symbol of gay rights around the world. we get visitors from everywhere you can think of i think when you talk about stonewall, it