On the 50th anniversary of the historic march from Selma to Montgomery, Alabama, the Academy and Golden Globe Award winning Eva DuVernay film “Selma” was not without its critics. Criticism ranged from historically inaccuracies to production issues. The film began with scenes from Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. receiving his Nobel Peace Prize in Stockholm in…
NEW YORK, New York – NYC Pride, producers of NYC’s iconic LGBT Pride events, announced today that New York City has been selected to host WorldPride 2019. WorldPride 2019 will be held in conjunction with Stonewall 50, the official commemoration of the 1969 Stonewall Uprising. 2019 marks the first time that WorldPride, a global LGBT…
After Roland Emmerich, the gay, German-born director of The Fourth of July and The Day After Tomorrow, learned about the plight of homeless LGBT youth, he decided to make a movie about them, and that movie transmogrified into the story of homeless LGBT youth who helped start the 1969 Stonewall riots. This is a laudable…
Trouble-hit movie Stonewall bombed at the box office in its limited start at the weekend, grossing $112,414 from 127 theaters for an abysmal location average of $871, according to The Hollywood Reporter. The historical drama by openly gay director Roland Emmerich recounts the events surrounding the 1969 Stonewall Riots, a bloody standoff with police outside a…
The new movie Stonewall has been the target of boycotts and the recipient of some unflattering reviews. To add fuel to the fire director Roland Emmerich has used the term “straight acting” to describe the hero at the center of Stonewall, saying in an interview with BuzzFeed: “You have to understand one thing: I didn’t make this…
Producers of the upcoming movie Stonewall have released a new trailer featuring Marsha P. Johnson, a pioneer of the LGBT rights movement. Johnson is known as one of the first LGBT activists to fight back during the Stonewall riots. She and her friend Sylvia Rivera were prominent activists in New York who fought for gay…
Out revealed the first look at the official movie poster for Stonewall, describing it as a riotously colorful tribute to the past. With Danny (Jeremy Irvine), Ray/Ramona (Jonny Beauchamp), Marsha P. Johnson (Otoja Abit), and others caught in a joyous embrace, director Roland Emmerich told Out the design deliberately hearkens back to the time of…
Many have jumped on the bandwagon criticizing the virtues of the upcoming movie ‘Stonewall’. Fueled by release of the trailer that depicts young white characters as the heroes of the piece critics have slammed the movie as ignoring the real movers and shakers of the time. Right on cue comes a new trailer for the…
There has been plenty of controversy surrounding the release of the trailer for the upcoming movie Stonewall, which tells a story about the 1969 riots in which queer people pushed back against police harassment. The trailer focuses on a cis white boy who moved to New York just in time to spark the riots. And…
Director Roland Emmerich has spoken out in support of his upcoming film Stonewall, defending the project against accusations that it ignored the role drag queens, the transgender community, and people of color played in the 1969 riots in Greenwich Village. The controversy arose after the release of the movie’s first trailer. Wrote Emmerich on Facebook: When I…
