mickeyandmumbles:

^{When We Rise — Based in part on the memoir of the same name by Cleve Jones, When We Rise tells the history of the gay rights movement, starting with Stonewall in 1969 and chronicling “the personal and political struggles, set-backs and triumphs of a diverse family of LGBT men and women who helped pioneer one of the last legs of the U.S. Civil Rights movement from its turbulent infancy in the 20th century to the once unfathomable successes of today.”}

I have such mixed feelings about this. Is it going to be honest about the violent exclusion of trans women from the gay rights movement after Stonewall? Sexism by gay men? and all the other nasty moments when LGBT people were far from heroes to each other? And is it going to be honest about how rotten, transphobic and corrupt the organizations that ran the campaign for same-sex marriage are? Is it going to be honest about how massively fucked up everything is now or is it going to create a triumphant same-sex marriage happy ending that glosses over the fact that we are still dying?

I could see this being great, but I could also see this being absolutely terrible but extremely hard to criticize because it ticks all the diversity boxes and to people interested in symbols that’s enough.