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Bert Wylen presents a four-part series on gay life before and after Stonewall, broadcast on July 1, 1994 on Pacifica Network News. Bert Wylen interviews Harry Hays, Dell Martin, Phyllis Lyon, Frank Kameny, and Barbara Gittings on gay life pre-Stonewall. Bert Wylen interviews Jeremiah Newton, Williamson Henderson, Mark Segal, Bob Culler, Robert Bryan, and Randy Wicker about the mythologies and realities of the Stonewall uprising. Bert Wylen interviews Dr. Evelyn Hooker, Frank Kameny, Barbara Gittings, Dr. Charles W. Socarides, and Dr. Richard Moore about the "sickness model" of homosexuality and the activism that led to the American Psychiatric Association’s removal of homosexuality from the Diagnostical and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). Bert Wylen interviews Gilbert Baker about the philosophy underwriting the rainbow flag as a symbol of gay identity and his work constructing a mile-long rainbow flag featured in the Stonewall 25 year anniverary march.