Watch: Powerful first trailer released for film based on Stonewall riots

http://www.pinknews.co.uk/2015/08/04/watch-powerful-first-trailer-released-for-film-based-on-stonewall-riots/

Pink News/by Nick Duffy 08/04/2015

"The drama will focus on the story of homeless Danny Winters – a fictional character caught up in the riots – who experiences a political awakening after making his way to New York and being introduced to the infamous Stonewall Inn – where "with the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born."

Independence Day director Roland Emmerich helmed the film – which will see War Horse star Jeremy Irvine play Danny with Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman and Jonny Beauchamp also starring.

Ahead of the film's cinema release next month, the first trailer was released today – giving a look at the main stars as tension builds in the Mafia-run Stonewall Inn."

powerful stuff

I was excited for this all through the trailer, but looking at the Youtube comments, it seems like I'm in the minority. Lots of unhappy LGBT members, complaining about the lack of diversity/representation, as well as a lack of key figures, but... I feel like it's too early to determine a lot of that from a 2-minute trailer. Just an interesting observation, I guess, although from the comments it sounds like a lot of people clicked the link with poor expectations and just got angrier, so... I don't know what to think. I don't actually know much about Stonewall to begin with (shame on me ) but from photos, brief articles, etc., I guess I'd like to see some actual analyses and accounts of Stonewall having to do with the size of different minority and LGBT groups present, since I can't find any.

TL;DR: I'll definitely go see it, I just wish I didn't have to worry about being shunned by my trans peers for doing so.

I think it needs to be seen in its entirety before judgments are made. I just read the wikipedia description of the riots and its quite interesting. I know there has been some criticism in the media and the trans community that not enough gratitude is given to the trans   who were part of the riots, but We'll have to wait and see how it's played out. Just in the trailer there seems to be a major trans character . but I don't known what that role is so can't make a call.

That was exactly my thought, that people were forming too strong of an opinion over what, at most, is 2% of the film. Playing devil's advocate, that also means I shouldn't be praising it before seeing it, but I do appreciate the subject matter at the very least. I kept trying to discuss this fact with my friend, but she seemed adamant that from the trailer she could see it being very "whitewashed" and unrepresentative of the community involved in Stonewall at large. Guess we'll just have to see, but I doubt this is the case; I too saw quite a few different spheres of representation in the trailer, such as the trans character you mentioned.

Stonewall Movie Erases Trans Women And Black Drag Queens From History

http://planettransgender.com/stonewall-movie-erases-black-trans-women-and-drag-queens-from-history/

Planet Transgender/Added by Amy Walker on August 5, 2015

"Ask most people who are a part of the LGBT+ community and they will have heard of the phrase Stonewall.  Some will conjure images of the Stonewall organisation, but most will be aware of the historical Stonewall Riots after which the organisation is named.

The Stonewall riots were a series of violent protests against the police by the LGBT+ community in New York in 1969.  Many cite the Stonewall Riots as the single most important event that led to the LGBT+ liberation movement in America, and the foundation upon which all modern LGBT+ rights are founded upon."

What to Do About That New Stonewall Movie

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/sarah-prager/what-to-do-about-that-new-stonewall-movie_b_7945272.html?utm_hp_ref=transgender

The Huffington Post/Sarah Prager 08/06/2015

"The GSA Network's boycott of the upcoming movie Stonewall is an admirable youth-led call to action to those of us concerned about the whitewashing of our history that the trailer below shows. Young, poor, transgender women of color were the leaders of Stonewall, not white men. Yes, there were gay white men at the Stonewall Inn that night in June 1969, but they were not at the vanguard like Sylvia Rivera and Marsha P. Johnson"

4 people missing from the new Stonewall film trailer

http://www.gaystarnews.com/article/the-4-people-missing-from-the-new-stonewall-film-trailer/

Gay Star News/

", a gay bar in the heart of Greenwich Village. But that night, the patrons did something that changed history forever: they fought back.

The Stonewall Riots was the beginning of the LGBTI movement in the US. From the brick that broke a police car window to the Supreme Court ruling in favor of marriage equality, the march began that day 46 years ago.

Roland Emmerich, the director behind Independence Day, is hoping to be the one to able to tell that story."