There are potentially two great movies here. One about a Midwestern kid growing up gay in the late sixties, the other about the Stonewall Riots. However, when you put the two movies together, it becomes one mediocre movie. Danny is a fictional character and ever minute spent on him and his fictional town takes away from actually telling the story of Stonewall and since the movie is named "Stonewall" we might expect it to be about, well, Stonewall. Meanwhile the characters that are based on historical people who were there are left as cardboard cut outs, propped up to move Danny's story along. Factor in that the police are actually portrayed as justified in raiding the bar towards the end and the lack of any actual serious romantic relationships on the parts of the leads and it is not hard to see why the LGBTQ community in general panned the film.
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