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The GFEM Media Database | Spotlight on LGBTQ COMMUNITIES

If your foundation supports LGBTQ issues, you won’t want to miss these and other projects in the GFEM Media Database at media.gfem.org.

Breaking FreeBreaking Free
Breaking Free brings in front of the camera gays, lesbians and transgenders from the closeted Indian queer community to share their stories of pain and hope, of the legal and social atrocities they suffer and their cry for a life of equality and dignity.  The film captures a community in indignation, a society in transition and the euphoria around the recent decriminalizing of homosexuality in India.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/10889.






Campaign Against Hate Speech in the Media
The National Hispanic Media Coalition (NHMC) is developing a national campaign against hate speech in media.  They have brought together a roundtable of allies to come up with legally defensible remedies to address this issue and have also identified grassroots organizations interested in working on this issue.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/10445.


In the LifeIn the Life: Stonewall 40th Anniversary Special
In recognition of the 40th anniversary of the Stonewall riots in June 1969, In The Life Media has produced this one-hour special that looks at the growth of the LGBT community and movement over the past forty years.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/9335.







Heartbreak and HeroismHeartbreak and Heroism: Stories From the Plague Years in San Francisco
Heartbreak and Heroism: Stories From the Plague Years in San Francisco is the first deep and reflective look back at the arrival and impact of AIDS in San Francisco.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/11135.

 

 




Thy Will Be DoneThy Will Be Done: A Transsexual Woman's Journey Through Family and Faith
Thy Will Be Done follows male-to-female transsexual Sara Herwig in her path to ordination in the Presbyterian Church.  Efforts have been made to block her ordination by the evangelical conservative groups who don't recognize her as female and question her fitness to be a pastor - but who also challenge her candidacy because she is in a same-sex relationship with a woman.  At issue is the organized Christian Church, with all its political and financial power, as one of the fiercest battlegrounds for LGBT rights and gender recognition.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/10752.






PariahPariah
Pariah is a coming-of-age drama about a black lesbian teenager who struggles internally with self-doubt and juggles multiple ill-fitting identities to please her friends and family.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/9553.







Out in the SilenceOut in the Silence
Out in the Silence is more than a movie, it's part of the movement for fairness, equality and human rights for lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people, with an emphasis on rural and small town America.  Learn more about this project at http://media.gfem.org/node/9469.