ReThink Review: Stonewall - Don't Boycott It. Just Skip ithttp://www.huffingtonpost.com/jonathan-kim/rethink-review-stonewall_b_8199396.html?utm_hp_ref=transgenderThe Huffington Post/By Jonathan Kim 09/26/2015
"Controversy surrounding Roland Emmerich's gay rights historical drama Stonewall started early when the trailer was released. In it, we see the film's young hero, Danny (Jeremy Irvine), is the person who throws the fateful brick that shatters the window of Greenwich Village's Mafia-run Stonewall gay bar, a moment that incited days of rioting that are widely credited as starting the gay pride movement and the battle for gay rights. While historians are not sure exactly who threw that first brick, the fact that Danny is a white, middle-class boy from Indiana drew the ire of several gay and transgender groups, who announced a boycott of the film since the trailer seemed to indicate that it would be yet another whitewashing of history, painting a handsome, white, straight-looking male as the savior while downplaying the pivotal role that lesbians, people of color, drag queens, and transgender people played in starting the riots. Watch the trailer for Stonewall below."
