Clocking in at just over two minutes, this trailer is quite stirring in its depiction of social injustice, so hopefully Stonewall gets the movie it deserves.
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There is no Irish release date at present for Stonewall.
However, thousands of people have signed a petition slamming the film – which stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman and Jonny Beauchamp – for failing to focus on the role of drag queens, trans women and people of colour in the riots.
Forty-six years after the Stonewall riots in Greenwich Village, action flick director Roland Emmerich offers his own version of the pivotal moment in the gay rights movement in the September 25 movie Stonewall.
In the film, based on the trailer below, we are given the impression that some young, corn fed, bullied and misunderstood gay kid from America’s heartland, and another white guy who he meets at the bar at the center of the Stonewall riots, more or less started the movement.
Danny’s arrival in New York introduces him to leading activists fighting for gay rights in the face of brutal police violence.
Changing history like that is wrong. Not only is it historically innaccurate but its totally god damn disrespectful… You can make a tax-deductible donation over here.
One is an intimate drama about a real couple who fought for their rights as one of them was dying of cancer.
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The reality coming from multiple witnesses to the original event say that it was Marsha P Johnson, Sylvia Rivera, butch lesbians and other gender variant persons of color who jumped off the riot in 1969 while the Fire Island gays were still cowering in their closets. Toplined by War Horse’s Jeremy Irvine, the Stonewall club became a dedicated safe haven for members of the LGBTQ community, who were constantly berated by the public and unjustly punished by the police force at the time. As tensions rise and the riots erupt over the summer of 1969, Danny finds himself caught up in a historic moment at the birthplace of a new movement.
