'There wouldn't be any Pride celebrations today if it weren't for this pivotal moment in history.'
"As we were looking at the aftermath season, we felt there were some voices that were left out," he explains."There was no story that featured LGBTQIA+ voices, so as we approached this season, we sought to fill that hole in our storytelling. We couldn't ignore what is happening to trans people, drag performers, artists and citizens who just want the freedom to be who they are.
Truglio had considered staging this story since 2017 and conducted deep research to piece together the timeline of the rebellion. He read, shifted through records on archive.org to find what was written about it at the time, and listened to audio interviews from people who were in attendance. "One of the most interesting things about Stonewall was that everyone was there, but no one was there, because there isn't a ton of recorded history about what happened," Truglio says."The 24-hour news cycle wasn't around yet, so we had this major uprising that was barely covered by the press. That means the history of what happened is largely hearsay.
The play takes place in the weeks leading up to the start of Stonewall on June 28, 1969, and largely centers on the six-day conflict between the bar's patrons and the
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