Outrage, a controversial new documentary that "outs" some prominent politicians that it claims are gay (including a 2010 Senate candidate) premiered at the Tribeca Film Festival. Reporter Jason Bellini interviews the film’s director, and looks at what the mainstream media have said -- and haven't said -- about the film.
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Jason Bellini
Jason Bellini is a freelance TV journalist who has worked for MTV, CBS, and CNN. In 2006, he received the Journalist of the Year award from the National Lesbian and Gay Journalists Association.
Civil-rights movement that advocates equal rights for gay men, lesbians, bisexuals, and transsexuals. Supporters of gay rights seek to eliminate sodomy laws barring homosexual acts between consenting adults and call for an end to discrimination against gay men and lesbians in employment, credit, lending, housing, marriage, adoption, public accommodations, and other areas of life. The first group to campaign publicly was founded in Berlin in 1897 by Magnus Hirschfeld (1868–1935) and had 25 local chapters in Europe by 1922; suppressed by the Nazis, it did not survive World War II. The first U.S. support group, the Mattachine Society, was founded in Los Angeles c. 1950; the Daughters of Bilitis, for lesbians, was founded in San Francisco in 1955. The Dutch Association for the Integration of Homosexuality COC, founded as the COC (Cultuur en Ontspannings Centrum [“Culture and Recreation Center”]) in 1946 and headquartered in Amsterdam, is a prominent European group and the oldest existing gay rights organization. Many date the expansion of the modern gay rights movement to the Stonewall rebellion in New York City in 1969, when a raid by police on a gay bar called the Stonewall Inn provoked a riot by bar patrons. “Stonewall” came to be commemorated annually by the observance of Gay and Lesbian Pride Week in cities around the world. The International Lesbian and Gay Association (founded 1978), headquartered in Brussels, lobbies for human rights and opposes discrimination against homosexuals. Although the movement is strongest in western Europe and North America, gay rights organizations exist in many countries throughout the world. Among the major issues pressed by gay rights advocates in the 1990s and into the 21st century were the passage of hate crime laws and the establishment of legal rights for homosexuals to marry, adopt children, and serve openly in the military.
Elleno--that you use the term "fudge packer" betrays your own hate--gay people can disagree, and other gay people can call them hypocrites--that's the American way. Also, no, the filmaker isn't gay.
Frankly life goes on either or your ideas. But when the rights to live in peace
with your valves is being twisted by the social controls of what is correct
and not correct then the family itself will no longer be.
Besides a greater % of gay peoples come from oppressive right wing conservatives
and their rejection from such fascist views has cause them to speak out.
Politically why should he worry about being outed. That is unless his constituency sees his position as hypocritical themselves. Can't his constituency deal with an elected gay man?
So let me get this right: if you are gay you can only have one point of view. You must support gay marriage, gay adoption and other leftist gay campaigns.
Perhaps being gay one might understand how terrible depriving a child of both a mother and a father is, for example, and that's why you oppose adoption.
Can anyone tell me whether the director of the film is a fudge packer? He certainly looks like one.
i have to agree with the previous posted replies. don't politicians, anyone for that matter, have the right to keep secrets about themselves? maybe governor crist is gay and his stance on the defense of marriage amendment/adoption is how he honestly feels. the media should respect an individual's privacy. the truth will "out" in it's own good time.
I agree completely; I think Kirby Dick has a bad habit of making important assumptions about situations that require a more nuanced understanding or interpretation. His film "This Film is Not Yet Rated" makes a strong case that the Motion Picture Association of America ratings board is, and always has been, homophobic, and then uses this to illustrate the idea that anything that challenges family values in mainstream cinema is censored. Whatever the case may be regarding the MPA and its pro/demotion of homophobia, it is a private institution that studios can choose to submit their pictures to for rating, and in no way qualifies as state-cencorship. I think this film will make a similar kind of mistake with regards to homosexual politicians who don't support homosexual politics per se. zzoliche makes the point as well as I could; I instantly felt a sense of annoyance at Dick when he called Crist's position 'hypocritical'; the man can be gay and not for gay rights after all. He may well believe that gays don't deserve to adopt or marry, but he may be quite willing to accept that about his lifestyle. These kind of distinctions are important to make. I'm also suspicious of Dick's motivatation in making this film; I believe he's outing Crist for political reasons and also out of a misguided belief that "once I've outed him, he'll make the case for gay rights within his party, he'll be happier with the consistency of his lifestyle and his politics and we'll all gain overall". I can't prove that of course, but the way in which he candidly acknowledges the fact that Crist will be hurt by the film, plus his track record of finger-pointing mixed with a strong track-record of cultural superiority leads me to conclude that such reasoning has been employed in some part of his brain.
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"What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence" - Christopher Hitchens
I think this documentary is informed by a deeply misguided assumption. Much as homosexual activists may take issue with it, there's nothing hypocritical about wanting to enjoy homosexual erotic experience, while not supporting the mainstreaming of homosexuality as part of the dominant culture. Whether anyone approves or not, there's nothing inconsistent or hypocritical about it. It's just our all too tired obsession with identity politics that confuses anyone into seeing this stance as inconsistent.
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