Marsha P. Johnson is so in the new Stonewall movie, you guys. Unless you’ve been living in a cave behind Kim Davis’ house in rural Kentucky, you’re already aware that much of the advance controversy swirling around the upcoming film that chronicles — albeit somewhat fictitiously — events that led up to the legendary riots outside New York City’s Stonewall Inn have focused on the perceived notion that the pioneering trans activist is absent from the movie or her efforts have been considerably downplayed. Everyone will find out when the Roland Emmerich-helmed film is released to theaters September 25, but the studio has released this brief clip of actor Otoja Abit as Johnson to calm down the tension.
Watch Johnson chat with the queer Greenwich Village street urchins below.
Glücklich
Just when I thought it was safe….this bullshit rolls back around.
I WILL WATCH IT!
I WON’T WATCH IT!
I WILL WATCH IT!
I WON’T WATCH IT!
I WILL WATCH IT!
I WON’T WATCH IT!
I WILL WATCH IT!
I WON’T WATCH IT!
jayj150
It’d be nice if we had proof Johnson was at the actual Stonewall riots, though.
Xzamilio
You have to realize that the people bitching the most about this movie are the ones who never planned on watching it, even if you showed them everything they were griping about… because then it would come down to it not being depicted accurately. I, on the other hand, have been consistent in my reason for not wanting to see it… just don’t care.
Clark35
@jayj150: Very true. Everyone and their grandmother that claims to have been at Stonewall, usually has been shown to be a fraud. Even the gay guy Eliot Tiber who claims to have started the Woodstock music festival claims to have been there but he’s a fraud, fame wh0re, and charlatan.
darian
@Xzamilio: Exactly I think anyone who’s gonna see this movie has already made up their mind to do so. At this point I think further discussion about who is or isn’t in this movie is pointless.
Glücklich
@Xzamilio:
@darian:
I echo these sentiments.
But Queerty’ll continue wringing every lost drop out of the thing. Coming next: what was everyone’s favorite snack from craft services during shooting? Who had a bigger trailer? Who was a diva on the set? This one weird old trick gets rid of belly fat and doctors hate me for it.
Ogre Magi
Wasn’t there already a Stonewall film?
SportGuy
The movie has already failed, no one cares, moving onto real topics!
Ummmm Yeah
@Ogre Magi: Yes. Stonewall (1995). It was OK. Again not a documentary. A fictional story set during a real event.
Ummmm Yeah
@SportGuy: The only thing that failed was the attempt to rewrite history and replace all the white gay men at Stonewall and the attempt to sabotage this movie.
Captain Obvious
Yawn, another advertising attempt over this dumb movie. Even the people going on and on about it aren’t going to see it. They only care about saying only white people were involved. Blah blah blah.
Moving on.
Tracy Pope
@Xzamilio:
@darian:
Of course I’ll watch it. When it comes out on Netflix. The part I don’t care about is the the hype and bat sh@% crazy histrionics over it.
dmanhart
51 year old gay man here. Openly my entire adult life (since 1982).
All this bullshit against the movie reminds me of the douchebags who bashed the tv show “Glee” for portraying a guy in a wheelchair. Because the actor wasn’t paraplegic.
These people attacking the movie before it comes out make Kim Davis sound somewhat reasonable and make all of us look bad.