How to Survive a Plague director David France explores the heroic life and tragic death of an often forgotten leader of the gay rights movement in this illuminating, if scattershot, film
One of the many awful decisions made in Roland Emmerich’s punishingly tone-deaf 2015 turkey Stonewall was the positioning of a fresh-faced “straight-acting” white twink as the face of the burgeoning gay rights movement in 1960s New York. In an attempt to make an unavoidably queer story more hetero-accessible, Emmerich became part of a tradition of covering up the vital groundwork done by the trans community for the rest of the Lgbtq population.
Related: Five Came Back review – riveting Netflix history of how Hollywood took on Hitler
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One of the many awful decisions made in Roland Emmerich’s punishingly tone-deaf 2015 turkey Stonewall was the positioning of a fresh-faced “straight-acting” white twink as the face of the burgeoning gay rights movement in 1960s New York. In an attempt to make an unavoidably queer story more hetero-accessible, Emmerich became part of a tradition of covering up the vital groundwork done by the trans community for the rest of the Lgbtq population.
Related: Five Came Back review – riveting Netflix history of how Hollywood took on Hitler
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- 10/5/2017
- by Benjamin Lee
- The Guardian - Film News
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