“It was the bad old days in many ways. We were so free. Things were so cheap.” Filmmaker Greta Schiller on the experiences that led her to New York City in the early 1970s:
that it had prolonged the riots with its unfavorable coverage.) Schiller remembers seeing a photo from Stonewall in its pages at the time.
at the time, and Schiller says she ended up in a part of town that cab drivers wouldn’t go to. She said that meant there were two options for late nights out on the town: “Run like hell” to get from the cab to her apartment or stay at the club until the sun came up. When she wasn’t dancing the night away with those friends, she was at a poetry reading or a film screening in venues that didn’t serve alcohol. Her friends organized clothing swaps, vinyl-record swaps, potlucks, and dance nights. Meeting up in a less technologically connected world meant that plans could be a little looser, but the telephone, even in it’s pre-smartphone days, was key.
“I remember walking up and down in front of the house, getting the courage, like, ‘Should I go in or should I not?’ Looking and seeing if I could see anything in the windows or whatever,” she says. Fortunately, her concerns didn’t stop her: “I went in," she adds, "and the rest is history.”“I love the energy of this city,” she says. “Even then, New York had such a diversity of cultures in the queer world — much more than anything I had experienced before.
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