Stonewall comes out tomorrow and people are pissed.
My Facebook feed has been full of complaints about the Stonewall movie ever since the trailer came out.
The most common objection to the film (or at least the trailer) is that it focuses on the fictional story of an attractive, square-jawed blonde guy.
This is supposedly problematic because the real heroes of Stonewall were a diverse collection of drag queens, lesbians, transgender individuals, and ethnic/racial minorities.
But here we have these diverse historical figures relegated to bit roles while we focus on a classically handsome white male.
My response? Of course it stars a white guy.
Hollywood is dominated by white males. That’s how we get ridiculous moments like Matt Damon explaining diversity to Effie Brown on Project Greenlight. (Effie is also the only person in the room who isn’t a white male.)