On the Boycott of the Stonewall Film
Quist, a LGBTQ history education organization, supports the GSA Network’s boycott of the upcoming movie Stonewall. Please sign on here with other youth concerned about the whitewashing of our history that the trailer below shows.
However, we also recognize many people will want to see the film is like the trailer or other reasons. If you are not going to boycott the movie, we call on you to make a matching donation for the amount of your movie ticket to an organization that honors transgender women of color like the Stonewall movie does not appear to do. We suggest donating locally or to one of the following:
Sylvia Rivera Project
Trans Women of Color Collective
Transgender Archives at University of Victoria
Go beyond feeling upset (to put it lightly) that our foremothers have been erased in this Hollywood version of what happened those nights in June 1969. Make August 2015 and beyond a time when they are so supported they can no longer be ignored. Make a donation in the amount of the ticket price to one of these or another trans-positive organization to offset the profit other will make off of this whitewashing. Whether you offset your own ticket or a stranger’s, #DonateATicket.
http://www.quistapp.com/stonewallmovie/