Documentary About Gay Teen Struggles | Mill Valley

Submitted by the Event Organizer

The Mill Valley Public Library is inviting teens to attend a free community screening of “Out in the Silence,” followed by a Q & A session with filmmakers Joe Wilson and Dean Hamer.

“Out in the Silence” chronicles the harrowing, ultimately successful battle of a gay teen and his mother against recalcitrant school authorities when the teen is brutally attacked for coming out in his small western Pennsylvania high school.

The post-screening Q & A will be aimed at engaging the audience in a conversation about inclusion, fairness, and equality for lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) people in California and across the country.

Produced in association with the Sundance Institute, “Out in the Silence” premiered in the 2010 Human Rights Watch International Film Festival at New York’s Lincoln Center and has been broadcast on PBS. But Wilson and Hamer are more interested in screening it in smaller cities and towns and rural communities as part of a grassroots campaign to raise LGBT visibility and promote dialogue and civic engagement outside of major cities.

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