A Human Rights Watch Film Festival Screening.
The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights. We meet activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, a state with a 30 percent African-American population. Through this story, the film examines homophobia in the black community's institutional pillar?the black church?and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
Discussion to follow with Yoruba Richen and film subject Samantha Masters
Admission/Cost: $4 - $8
Location:
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego, 92101
Thursday, January 23 - 7:00 PM Note: Event begins at 6:00 pm, Film begins at 7:00 pm, Dessert Reception at 9:00 pm
For more information, please visit: www.ff.hrw.org
The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights. We meet activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, a state with a 30 percent African-American population. Through this story, the film examines homophobia in the black community's institutional pillar?the black church?and reveals the Christian right wing's strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
Discussion to follow with Yoruba Richen and film subject Samantha Masters
Admission/Cost: $4 - $8
Location:
Museum of Photographic Arts
1649 El Prado
San Diego, 92101
Thursday, January 23 - 7:00 PM Note: Event begins at 6:00 pm, Film begins at 7:00 pm, Dessert Reception at 9:00 pm
For more information, please visit: www.ff.hrw.org
