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Watch: New Stonewall clip features Marsha P Johnson
A new clip from the Stonewall film features Marsha P Johnson.
The African-American drag queen and transgender activist, played by cisgender actor Otoja Abit, is introduced as ‘the queen of queens’ and tells the other characters the P in her name stands for ‘pay it no mind.’
By some accounts, Johnson threw the first brick and sparked the 1969 riots that the film is based on.
Critics have accused openly gay director Roland Emmerich of ‘whitewashing’ and ignoring drag queens and transgender women of color such as Johnson and her friend Sylvia Rivera.
The trailer focused on a fictional white man (played by Jeremy Irvine) from the Midwest who moves to New York City after being kicked out by his parents and gets caught up in the riots.
This led to an outcry on social media and calls for a boycott of the film.
Stonewall hits theaters on 25 September.
Watch the clip below:
Ms. Marsha “Pay It No Mind” Johnson, everyone!
Posted by Stonewall on Wednesday, 9 September 2015
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Darren Wee
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