Review: Charge of 'Stonewall' White-Washing Isn't Entirely Accurate

I've read a dozen reviews of Roland Emmerich's "Stonewall" and based on what I've gathered -- still without having seen the film, which has been universally panned -- Guy Branam's seems to be the one that sizes it up most honestly, at least as far as the so-called whitewashing goes, which never sounded quite right given the cast of characters we knew were involved.

He writes, emphasis his:

Much has been made of the film’s erasure of trans people and LGBT people of color from the film. Most articles about criticisms of the trailer described it as "white washing," but the criticism isn’t entirely accurate. Emmerich TRIES to present a vibrant, multi-ethnic New York by dropping Danny into a band of racially diverse street hustlers who shout their lines so that we do not have opportunity to forget how fabulous they are. It’s not that Emmerich doesn’t show us effeminate, non-white or trans people, it’s just that he can’t imagine what they would do other than dress like a touring company of "Hair" and lust after Danny.  

Also, let’s be clear: This movie’s most harrowing moment is Danny almost getting a blow job from a fat guy, NOT the Stonewall raid. That is because this movie is bad. A special, important kind of bad. It purports to tell the story of a dramatic moment in civil rights, then gives no care or attention to the people who were actually affected. Rather, it fictionalizes a white, male straight-acting Fagssiah to lead us out of oppression, then realizes the ethnic, femme homos of the Village aren’t worthy of his help.

Fair enough. We've known all along that the film is a fictionalized account. What the reviews tell us new is that it's a (boring, unfocused) fictionalized coming-of-age story set against the backdrop of the seminal moment in gay rights history, not a film about "Stonewall." Bad PR. Worse movie is my guess.