German director Roland Emmerich’s latest offering, ‘Stonewall’, a drama about the birth of the gay rights movement, is courting controversy.
Named after the 1969 riots by members of the gay community against a police raid at a New York gay club, the film centers around a fictional, straight-acting, homeless kid.
Emmerich, who is openly gay and is best known for Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Independence Day’ and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, marks his debut at the helm of an independent film.
It’s also his first movie with a gay focus and has sparked a barrage of negative reviews. “Yeah. I don’t know why that is,” says Emmerich. “I think that if there was another name on this as a director, this would look different.”
“It’s a fictionalised story. It’s not a documentary. It’s a film that’s long overdue, it’s a motion picture. We are bringing awareness to homeless youth that are LGBTQ, and all homeless youth, of course, any person in a vulnerable position. I just feel like I really
Named after the 1969 riots by members of the gay community against a police raid at a New York gay club, the film centers around a fictional, straight-acting, homeless kid.
Emmerich, who is openly gay and is best known for Hollywood blockbusters like ‘Independence Day’ and ‘The Day After Tomorrow’, marks his debut at the helm of an independent film.
It’s also his first movie with a gay focus and has sparked a barrage of negative reviews. “Yeah. I don’t know why that is,” says Emmerich. “I think that if there was another name on this as a director, this would look different.”
“It’s a fictionalised story. It’s not a documentary. It’s a film that’s long overdue, it’s a motion picture. We are bringing awareness to homeless youth that are LGBTQ, and all homeless youth, of course, any person in a vulnerable position. I just feel like I really
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