a young gay man from the stick come to new york city in 1969 hop for a good life and but find the homosexual lifestyle just as stifle in the big city under police pressure and corruption and harassment . the legendary gay riot near the stonewall inn take up just five minute of the film run time and the final five minute . this low budget and brightly color film be more interested in the life that would soon be affect by the riot than in the aftermath of the violence and so we get stock character like the naive blond cowboy and the underworld group control the club and the straight seeming activist for a homosexual alliance and and lot and lot of drag queen . director nigel finch seem to make a concerted effort to equate homosexuality with drag behavior and and drag behavior with ( ultimately ) prostitution . perhaps this be true of the time and but finch presentation ( though not campy ) have cartoonish leaning and nostalgic overture that do not express anything more than what most people already realize represent the cop be corrupt and the gay be not saint and and they clash . there a good movie to be make about stonewall and but this one just scratch the surface . there be some sweet moment ( a sing along on a bus and a dance between a drag queen and a gay conservative ) and but just a many scene where the tone intend hasn not a hope in hell of come through . from .