Stories by @ihaveideas

Stonewall

Christopher Street in the year 1969, tensions were boiling as police continue to ramp up raids on gay bars and arrests of transgender women and drag queens. The film follows Craig Rodwell, a radical and anti-authoritarian organizer; Marsha P. Johnson, the vivacious and protective "queen mother" of Christopher Street; and Sylvia Rivera, the passionate revolutionary teenager; and Evelyn, a closeted transgender woman caught in the middle of respectability and revolution.

The Great Gatsby

Set in the summer of 1922, the story is narrated by Nick Carraway, a young Midwesterner who moves to New York to work as a bond salesman and rents a house in West Egg, a suburb of Long Island populated by the "new rich", next door to the mysterious Jay Gatsby, who lives in a huge mansion and throws outrageous parties every Saturday night. Gatsby is wealthy, with a past shrouded in rumor and speculation. Nick has connections across the bay in East Egg, where his cousin Daisy Buchanan lives with her husband Tom, a wealthy, imposing man with a wandering eye. There, Nick also meets Jordan Baker, a beautiful and cynical professional golfer. As Nick is gradually pulled into Gatsby's glittering world, he discovers that behind the lavish parties and mysterious persona lies a man driven by a singular, all-consuming obsession, the pursuit of Daisy Buchanan, a wealthy married woman he loved in his youth.