Out at the Movies Screens Stonewall Uprising

Out at the Movies is a monthly LGBT film screening event in Long Beach. The evening of great films and live entertainment is every last Thursday of the month at 9 p.m. at the beautifully restored Art Theatre. There is full availability of theatre concessions for purchase including beer, wine and champagne.
Admission to the event is $10 per person which includes live entertainment and films made through a queer lens.
These events benefit those touched by Breast Cancer and HIV/AIDS.
The evening is Presented by Artful Thinking Organization and a host of fine sponsors.
August 26th’s screening is a very important film that speaks to the modern day gay revolution, STONEWALL UPRISING.
“It was the Rosa Parks moment,” says one man. June 28, 1969: NYC police raid a Greenwich Village Mafia-run gay bar, The Stonewall Inn. For the first time, patrons refuse to be led into paddy wagons, setting off a 3-day riot that launches the Gay Rights Movement.
Told by Stonewall patrons, reporters and the cop who led the raid, Stonewall Uprising recalls the bad old days when psychoanalysts equated homosexuality with mental illness and advised aversion therapy, and even lobotomies; public service announcements warned youngsters against predatory homosexuals; and police entrapment was rampant. At the height of this oppression, the cops raid Stonewall, triggering nights of pandemonium with tear gas, billy clubs and a small army of tactical police. The rest is history. (Karen Cooper, Director, Film Forum)
Visit firstrunfeatures.com/stonewalluprising.html for more information.
Speakers from New York that were there that night will be on hand to tell their story.
Also screening on August 26th is a 3 mintue short Sex Kitten, by Long Beach local writer/director Debbie Rivas.