The Thomas Iorio Stonewall Vets video recordings document LGBTQ culture and heritage in New York City in the mid-1990s. Some footage in the collection was ultimately used in Iorio's short film Stonewall: The March Forward. This film is also found in the collection. Iorio took these videos to connect with LGBTQ history after he came out in the 1990s. The footage has a mixture of oral history interviews and recorded events and activities. Major themes of the collection are the activities of the Stonewall Rebellion Veterans Association (SVA), the lives of unhoused LGBTQ individuals on the piers west of New York City, drag performance, and LGBTQ life in Manhattan in the 1990s. Figures featured include Sylvia Rivera, Williamson Lee Henderson (Willson Henderson), Stephen Van Cline, and Queen Allyson Ann Allante.
Iorio gets dressed up for a ball, explaining his approach to wearing drag while Stephen Van Cline operates the camera. The second half documents the Copacabana Ball including dancing and live music.
Iorio films Sylvia Rivera talking about her life on the West Side piers and introducing the other members of the community on the piers. Randy Wicker serves as an interviewer to both Sylvia and her neighbors.