Monday, June 2, 2014

10 Essential Films That Portray The The Struggle For Acceptance And Equality

From: Queerty
Small Town Gay Bar

This 2006 documentary from out filmmaker Malcolm Ingram looks at two gay bars in two rural Mississippi, and the bigotry and oppression many of the bar’s patrons face on a regular basis. The film also examines the barbaric murder of Scotty Joe Weaver, the 18-year-old gay man who was beaten, stabbed, strangled, and burned to death in Bay Minette, Alabama in 2004, and the dangers of being openly gay in the rural south.

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