{"id":140635,"date":"2015-08-18T02:30:10","date_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/18\/i-know-stonewall-hasnt-come-out-yet-but-i-cant\/"},"modified":"2015-08-18T02:30:10","modified_gmt":"2015-08-18T02:30:10","slug":"i-know-stonewall-hasnt-come-out-yet-but-i-cant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/18\/i-know-stonewall-hasnt-come-out-yet-but-i-cant\/","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know Stonewall hasn\u2019t come out yet, but I can\u2019t help, at least a little, contrasting it with Pride. Of course Pride changed some things too (Gethiin is a composite character, Joe is made up and they purposely left out <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Mark_Ashton\" target=\"_blank\">Mark Ashton<\/a>\u2019s communism), but overall it did a good job of taking a moment in history and showing how even small acts can change the world.<\/p>\n<p>Wheras with Stonewall, from everything we\u2019ve seen so far the central character is a made-up generic white guy and the trans people of color and others who started the fight seem to be on the sidelines, if they\u2019re there at all.<\/p>\n<p>If they wanted the generic white guy I\u2019d rather he be a witness then portrayed like a hero. I\u2019d rather learn about <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Sylvia_Rivera\" target=\"_blank\">Sylvia Rivera<\/a>, <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Marsha_P._Johnson\" target=\"_blank\">Marsha P. Johnson<\/a>\u00a0or <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storm%C3%A9_DeLarverie\" target=\"_blank\">Storm\u00e9 DeLarverie<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes a movie about a fictional character can do good. <a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Storm%C3%A9_DeLarverie\" target=\"_blank\">Philadelphia<\/a> I think made a big difference for a lot of people. (Though that too was based on the real life story of\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Geoffrey_Bowers\" target=\"_blank\">Geoffrey Bowers<\/a>.)<\/p>\n<p>I guess what I\u2019m getting to is that, I\u2019m a film student, I know how film is the stories we tell ourselves about ourselves. Films are important, big or little. We learn a lot of our history from films. They\u2019re our modern myths. And this one (so far) feels like a wasted opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>I hope I\u2019m wrong and this movie surprises me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know Stonewall hasn\u2019t come out yet, but I can\u2019t help, at least a little, contrasting it with Pride. Of course Pride changed some things too (Gethiin is a composite character, Joe is made up and they purposely left out Mark Ashton\u2019s communism), but overall it did a good job of taking a moment in &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/2015\/08\/18\/i-know-stonewall-hasnt-come-out-yet-but-i-cant\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[16244,3168,9914],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140635"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140635\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.merindab.com\/private\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}