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Kevin Thomas
The Los Angeles Times
The great strength of Kate David and David Heilbroner's "Stonewall Uprising" is its rich context. Long before the filmmakers arrive at the night of June 28, 1969, that was to transform forever the way gay people looked at themselves and their lives, they make chillingly clear how oppressive and downright dangerous life was for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgendered people at that time.
Bohemian Greenwich Village, though, had a tradition of tolerance for gays, and by the '60s the gay community had become increasingly visible. [...]
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