Who could have guessed that a bunch of men in dresses would breath life into the movement to win equal rights for gay men and lesbians?

Certainly not the police who raided the Stonewall Inn, a popular "drag" bar in Greenwich Village.

After a long history of police raids, extortion, and brutality, a gaggle of drag queens at the Stonewall decide they have had enough and begin to riot when the police try to load them into a paddy wagon.

Told by "La Miranda" (Hector), a regular customer at the Stonewall Inn, the film is a recounting of events that led up to that fateful day in 1969.

Her lover, Vinnie, is the closeted proprietor of the Stonewall. His tragic response to the suffocation he feels bearing down on him from a homophobic world -- perhaps as much as anything else -- sparks the riots.

The Stonewall riots were the starting point for the gay liberation worldwide. This part of gay history is important to know for any gay person.

I haven't seen this movie yet. My personal opionion will be online as soon as I have seen it personally. 

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