Watch: Noted Trans Activist Featured in Clip Released from Upcoming 'Stonewall' Film

Roadside Attractions has released a clip from the highly anticipated film "Stonewall," which features Otoja Abit as Marsha P. Johnson, the legendary activist and pioneer of the trans movement. The film, which chronicles the eponymous riots that gave birth to the gay rights movement, stars Jonathan Rhys Meyers, Ron Perlman, Jeremy Irvine and newcomer Jonny Beauchamp, will be released in theaters on September 25, 2015.

Marsha P. Johnson was an African American drag queen and gay liberation activist. A veteran of the Stonewall riots, Johnson was born in Elizabeth, New Jersey and was a popular figure in New York City's gay and art scene from the 1960s to the 1990s. Later in life she became an AIDS activist with ACT UP. Johnson has been identified as one of the first to fight back in the clashes with the police amid the Stonewall riots. In the early 1970s, Johnson and close friend Sylvia Rivera co-founded the Street Transvestite Action Revolutionaries (STAR); together they were a visible presence at gay liberation marches and other radical political actions.

According to press notes, "Stonewall" is a drama about a fictional young man caught up during the 1969 Stonewall riots. Danny Winters (Jeremy Irvine) is forced to leave behind friends and loved ones when he is kicked out of his parent's home and flees to New York. Alone in Greenwich Village, homeless and destitute, he befriends a group of street kids who soon introduce him to the local watering hole The Stonewall Inn; however, this shady, mafia-run club is far from a safe-haven.�As Danny and his friends experience discrimination, endure atrocities and are repeatedly harassed by the police, we see a rage begin to build. This emotion runs through Danny and the entire community of young gays, lesbians and drag queens who populate the Stonewall Inn and erupts in a storm of anger. With the toss of a single brick, a riot ensues and a crusade for equality is born.