In a Facebook post on Thursday, director Roland Emmerich spoke out in support of his upcoming film Stonewall, defending the project against accusations (leveled in the wake of the first trailer’s release) that it ignored the role drag queens, the transgender community, and people of color played in the 1969 riots in Greenwich Village.
It remains to be seen if Emmerich’s response will allay concerns with the film as a boycott campaign is already underway and has garnered nearly 15,000 signatures as of this writing.
What are your thoughts? Are people overreacting to a single trailer or are there some legitimate concerns to be had? Let us know in the comments section below.
Stonewall starring Jeremy Irvine, Jonny Beaucham, Jonathan Rhys Meyers, and Ron Perlman arrives in theaters September 25.
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