Right To Love....Just Don't Pray
Many of my readers may already be aware that our family has been the focus of a documentary about Prop 8 and our YouTube activism called Right To Love: An American Family. The movie has been in production for quite a while and I am happy to report that it is nearing completion and should be ready in time to premiere at the Sundance Film Festival. In preparation for release...Jayebird productions put together a new teaser trailer which I have posted above.
Now the reason I bring this up today is not really to bump the trailer but more to discuss an issue that has frustrated both my husband and myself. We have been sending this trailer out to any gay blogs we can think of in the hopes of highlighting the project, but they have been kicking it back because there is a scene with us saying grace around the dinner table. Now....blogs can pick and choose what they want to promote, and probably get inundated with a ton of requests from people asking them to promote their personal projects, I won't fault anyone for trying for controling their own content. The part that gets me, is that one blog admitted that it was the prayer specifically that made them uncomfortable. That is incredibly frustrating to me and my husband who see walls of posts on the blogs about celebrities coming out and how to check out hot guys on google maps....but no one wants to touch a project that could help change the way people see gay families because they are uncomfortable with it's rather tame and low key religious element.
My question to my readers is....Are we wrong to be frustrated by this? It seems that we focus alot of sex, celebritities, tragedies, and hate mongers...that stuff brings the readers and lights up the comment boards....but when it comes to more positive projects, no one has any interest. Take a look at the trailer and decide for yourself. What is in there that is so provocative?....or is showing our everyday life in film format just not as provocative Zachary Quinto coming out? You decide and let me know what you think...
Until next time dear readers....
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I am straight...and I back the right of gays to marry. I thought the praying scene sucked.
If I had a vote...I'd shit-can that part.
While some of you may be both religious and gay, the majority of us are not only not religious, but have problems with it on a pretty serious level, and with good reason. People who are both religious and gay often, in order to reconcile that, choose to ignore the harm religion does to this community. Of course, I respect your right to faith, but it makes me very uncomfortable to see a film about gay people with overtly religious aspects.