'Hit the Wall' Sentimentalizes the Myth of Stonewall

There’s no doubt that Ike Holter’s “Hit the Wall,” an attempt to dramatize the Stonewall Riots, which are generally considered the birth of the modern gay rights movement, means well. Unfortunately, that’s not enough. Holter’s cavalier attitude toward historical accuracy gets too many things wrong about what the world was like for LGBT people in 1969, while his flat fictional chara…

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