Roland Emmerich recently spoke out on how easy he has found it to be gay in the film industry. In Canada to promote his new film Stonewall, which focuses on the riots of 1969 that lead to the formation of the gay rights movement, the director of hit blockbusters like Independence Day and 2012 said, "For me, being gay in Hollywood was easy. I never made a big deal out of it. I was just openly gay. It happened late because I never wanted to have the words ‘gay director’ in front of my name. I wanted to make such different films. It’s not befitting but now I can be openly gay and still make these films.”
The initial release of the Stonewall trailer caused some controversy with claims that the film was focusing on the white male experience over all others as well as a suggestion that a brick through a window is what started the riots. Emmerich defined the uproar as “strange”.
