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2010 Thomas Allen Harris
Original Title :
Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness
Genre :
Movie / Documentary / Short / Biography / Family
Year :
2010
Directror :
Thomas Allen Harris
Type :
Movie
Time :
16min
Rating :
6.6/10

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A documentary project about Same Sex marriage from an African American perspective, the film focuses on Massachusetts State Representative and Civil Rights Movement veteran Byron Rushing, ... See full summary

Marriage Equality: Byron Rushing and the Fight for Fairness (2010) Online

A documentary project about Same Sex marriage from an African American perspective, the film focuses on Massachusetts State Representative and Civil Rights Movement veteran Byron Rushing, who together with a group of progressive Black clergy and activists, took the campaign for same sex marriage into the Black community, confronting the hostility of the church and defining the right of same sex marriage as a civil rights issue on par with the campaigns of the 1960s. Rushing, who is straight, is perhaps an unlikely gay hero.

Recipient of The Jon Deen Memorial Award at the 2012 Spokane GLBT Film Festival.


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This short film focuses on a straight, African-American politician who pushed for marriage equality in Massachusetts, the first state in the U.S. to legalize same sex marriage.

This should have been on the list of LGBT film festivals everywhere. There is a widespread perception in the gay community that straight African-Americans as a group resented the equating of gay marriage rights with interracial marriage rights. And, that all Black American churches worked against gay marriage. This film dispels that notion. It demonstrates that African-American opposition to gay marriage--as with most Americans--was about religion, not race.

This film serves, in some respects, as a reminder that the groundbreaking change in U.S. law that began in Massachusetts needs to be not just documented but celebrated. I hope that the the filmmaker takes on that brief. The gay community world-wide could a) use the encouragement, and b) get a blueprint for how the change was made.