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Official trailer for film about 1969 Stonewall riots is unveiled
The first trailer for Stonewall, out director Roland Emmerich’s film about a fictional young man caught up during the 1969 Stonewall Riots, was unveiled on Tuesday (4 August).
The film is written by openly gay writer Jon Robin Baitz and stars Jeremy Irvine and newcomer Jonny Beauchamp with Jonathan Rhys Meyers and Ron Perlman also in the cast.
It is set to open in US theaters on 25 September and is a deeply personal film for Emmerich who is better known for such action movies as Independence Day, 2012, The Day After Tomorrow and White House Down.
In the film, Danny Winters (Irvine) is forced to leave behind friends and loved ones when he is kicked out of his parent’s home and flees to New York. Alone in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, he befriends a group of street kids who soon introduce him to the local watering hole The Stonewall Inn.
In the film, it’s a shady, mafia-run club where Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police.
A rage begin to build among the community of young gays, lesbians and drag queens who populate the Stonewall Inn which erupts in a storm of anger. With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for LGBTI equality is born.
‘Today, thanks to the events set in motion by the Stonewall riots, the gay rights movement continues to make incredible strides towards equality,’ Emmerich said last month.
He points to the Stonewall riots as ‘the first time gay people said “Enough!”‘
‘Something that really affected me when I read about Stonewall was that when the riot police showed up in their long line, these kids formed their own long line and sang a raunchy song. That, for me, was a gay riot, a gay rebellion. … It was the kids that went to this club that consisted of hustlers and Scare Queens, and all kinds of people that you think would never resist the police, and they did it.’
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Greg Hernandez
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