Let’s Remember What Stonewall Actually Was

[stephaniec]

Let's Remember What Stonewall Actually Was

http://www.pqmonthly.com/lets-remember-what-stonewall-actually-was/23364

PQ Monthly/admin — August 19, 2015  By Leela Ginelle, PQ Monthly


"The Stonewall Riots of 1969 seem to grow in stature each year. Their mention in Obama's second inaugural address helped cement their place in our country's civil rights history, and their anniversary marks the worldwide celebration of LGBTQ Pride events.

In the media, Stonewall has become synonymous with "the birth of the gay rights movement," however, illustrating the way this increasingly important event—catalyzed and led by trans women of color and homeless youth—has been made over in a middle-class, white, cis gay male image. With the Hollywood movie Stonewall preparing to tell this white and ciswashed story once again for a worldwide audience, it's time to look at how these erasures happened, and why they're flat wrong."

[Everbrooke]

Also, don't watch the ->-bleeped-<-ty movie if you want to learn more.  Read a book or...well anything than watch that movie!  It doesn't know the difference between homosexuality and ->-bleeped-<- and flies all over the place.  The love interests of every "male" in the movie dress in drag...it's weird!

But yeah, may the stonewall riots always be remembered as a movement forward!

[stephaniec]

Silencing the Screaming Queens: Roland Emmerich's 'Stonewall' and the Erasure of Queer Rage

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/colin-walmsley/silencing-the-screaming-q_b_8026640.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/Colin Walmsley    08/23/2015

"Although I grew up over 2,000 miles from New York City and was born more than 20 years after the Stonewall uprising, this moment in history has profoundly influenced my understanding of what it means to be queer.

I come from small-town Southern Alberta, the type of place where cattle-branding parties are eagerly anticipated social gatherings, and getting stuck behind a slow-moving tractor is a perfectly reasonable excuse to be late for school. Gayness was seen as an exotic urban sensation rather than a universal human reality. So, when I realized I was gay in ninth grade, the queer world seemed an almost mythical place, a far away land. The Stonewall riots, with their pantheon of queer heroes and ensemble of repressive villains, represented the most compelling story of that distant gay world"

[stephaniec]

Op-ed: We Will Not Be Silent About the Stonewall Movie

http://www.advocate.com/commentary/2015/08/26/op-ed-we-will-not-be-silent-about-stonewall-movie


The Advocate/BY Latino LGBTQ community activists in Philadelphia
.August 26 2015 4:00 AM ET

"Over the past several weeks, since the release of the trailer for the upcoming movie Stonewall, there have been several op-eds written by distinguished, mainstream, older, LGBTQ white activists, shaming or dismissing those of us who intend to boycott the film. Here is a link to Larry Kramer's thoughts on the idea of boycotting Stonewall."

[stephaniec]

When Racism and Transphobia Equal Death, Why Are White Gay Cisgender HIV Activists Silencing Debate on the New Stonewall Film?

http://www.thebody.com/content/76323/when-racism-and-transphobia-equal-death-why-are-wh.html

The Body/By Jeremiah Johnso From TheBody.com  August 24, 2015

"For many, the throwing of the first brick in the Stonewall riots symbolically ignited an entire movement for LGBT justice. But if the release of the Stonewall brick launched a major movement for equality, the release of the first trailer for Roland Emmerich's new film Stonewall has launched a barrage of tweets about inequality. The trailer's lack of racial and gender diversity, and its depiction of a fictional white gay cisgender man as the central hero of the story have made many understandably concerned that transgender people and people of color have been left out of a very important, popularly accessible version of LGBT history -- despite their central role in that history."

[Joelene9]

  As said in other articles and post from elsewhere on the 'whitewashing' of Stonewall, this has to be the worst docudrama I seen in years. Some gays did dress in drag and has to pass as a female and speak very little to pass as a viable couple. This was called "camping out". This history did bring out some of the discord between certain gays and transgender communities had afterwards. A lot of those fellows did not want to dress in drag. It is a memory that's affects us to certain gays to this day. A lot missing, A lot. Esquire Magazine, the one that rebuffed Reneé Richards swatting two tennis balls with that front cover? They had a good article in around 1979 about the gays living in Fire Island, NY and about the Stonewall riots the decade before.

Joelene