When Mildred and Richard Loving crossed the racial divide - and state lines - from segregated Virginia to Washington D.C. in order to marry in 1958, little did they know the precedence they would be setting.

The eight-hour miniseries ABC has ordered from gay screenwriter Dustin Lance Black will be partly based on the memoir of longtime LGBT activist Cleve Jones.

Roland Emmerich, the city-smashing director responsible for such apocalyptic blockbusters as "Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow" and "2012" - has now set his destructive sights on... Stonewall?