Roadside Attractions have just released the first trailer of the much-anticipated movie STONEWALL that is set for a general release in US theaters on 25th September 2015. 

The movie written by Jon Robin Baitz (TV’s ‘Brother and Sisters’) and directed Roland Emmerich (‘Independence Day’ “The Day After Tommorrow’) who is openly gay, is a fictional narrative that plays out around the 1969 Stonewall Riots which overnight changed the gay community’s attitude and made them for the first time ever want to fight for their rights.  It is the story of Danny Winters who is kicked out of his parents home for being gay and is forced to leave his friends and loved ones as he flees to start a new life in N.Y.

When he finds himself alone in Greenwich Village both homeless and destitute, he befriends a groping of street kids who introduce him to the bar that they all hang out in. However The Stonewall Inn is a shady mafia-run club and is far from a safe haven. Danny and his gang experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, and when after a particularly bad raid, the entire crowd that include drag queens, erupt in a storm of anger.  With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born.

Starring rising Brit star Jeremy Irvine (‘Warhorse’), Golden Globe Winner Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Golden Globe winner the veteran actor Ron Perlman and a stunning newcomer Jonny Beauchamp (‘Penny Dreadful’) 


As the poster proclaims ‘this was where pride was born’, and for that reason alone it should be on every gay man’s must see list this Fall.  It goes without saying that no drag queen will not want to miss seeing how ‘her sisters’ stood up against all odds and made a real difference for all of us that followed.