If you’re coming out and you want the world to know, the flashiest way to do it (short of a show tune soliloquy) is to make a movie. Or, more realistically, a web series.
National Coming Out Day is observed on October 11th, the anniversary of the second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, often referred to as “The Great March.” It is a celebration of what its founders called the most basic form of activism; standing up and being counted. On this day in 1991, “Bewitched” actor Dick Sargent came out on “The Geraldo Rivera Show.” This year, Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Lilly Wachowski, Robin Lord Taylor and Holland Taylor all came out as some iteration of Lgbtq.
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National Coming Out Day is observed on October 11th, the anniversary of the second March on Washington for Lesbian and Gay Rights, often referred to as “The Great March.” It is a celebration of what its founders called the most basic form of activism; standing up and being counted. On this day in 1991, “Bewitched” actor Dick Sargent came out on “The Geraldo Rivera Show.” This year, Kristen Stewart, Aubrey Plaza, Lilly Wachowski, Robin Lord Taylor and Holland Taylor all came out as some iteration of Lgbtq.
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- 10/11/2016
- by Jude Dry
- Indiewire
Here's your daily dose of an indie film in progress; at the end of the week, you'll have the chance to vote for your favorite. In the meantime: Is this a movie you’d want to see? Tell us in the comments. "The 3 Bits" Tweetable Logline: Three weird siblings navigate sex, love, friendship and drugs. Elevator Pitch: Pick your poison: the Bits siblings are three different flavors of weird and reckless. Henry is trying too hard to have a good time; Roman says she wants a quiet life, but she finds herself turning tricks and dragged into drug dealing; and Madison is mommy-blogging her way to ruin. Production Team: Max Freeman & Margaret Singer - Writer/Director Robert Profusek - Executive Producer Jonathan Parks-Ramage & Emily Ray Reese - Producers Jessica Bennett and Sean Devaney - DPs Siena Brown - Ad About the Production: "We wanted to make a queer web...
- 11/25/2013
- by Indiewire
- Indiewire
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