So while we should certainly honor what Hanks did, we should not be looking to repeat it. Now, in the 90s, that kind of whitewashing of history wouldn’t have mattered, might even have been celebrated (Ben Kingsley won an Oscar for playing Gandhi after all), but that kind of thing doesn’t fly anymore. People online immediately picked up on this and blasted the film for whitewashing history (trans women of color started the fight), and as a result the film flopped. Except the film cast a cis white actor to play the part of the person who threw the first brick and kicked off the riot. It sought to tell the story of the stonewall riots that kicked off the lgbt Equality movement. I’ll give a similar but different example: Stonewall was a film from a few years back. In fact, as the article is pointing out, having a straight actor in the role today would lessen the impact of the film.
The next big impactful thing will not need to feature a straight actor in the role to have the same impact. We could not have gotten here without Philadelphia being exactly what it was, but we don’t need that anymore moving forward. You’re 100% right of course about the impact Philadelphia had when it was new. Watch the Best Gay Cartoon Porn Videos for free on Pornhub.