Study Guide:
A study guide is now available for download at: www.sumoe.com/lovestory/LoveStoryGuide.pdfThis 38 minute DVD can be used as a tool to educate, facilitate and promote informed discussions within a variety of group or classroom settings.*
Educate:
BRING IT! (to your school…)by Candace Gingrich
Youth Outreach Manager
Human Rights Campaign
In 2004 the Virginia state legislature passed the most draconian measure in the country, prohibiting contracts which “purport to bestow the privileges or obligations of marriage” between two individuals of the same gender. A Love Story in the Face of Hate is an inspiring and educational documentary that looks at this law’s impact through the eyes of one couple, forced to leave the state when the discriminatory legislation went into effect.
Barbara Kenny and Tibby Middleton, both in their 60s, aren’t activists; they are two people who have loved each other for nearly 40 years and simply wanted to live out the rest of their lives together, confident that legal steps they’d taken would enable them to always care for each other. After Barbara was diagnosed with a brain aneurysm, these issues were of even greater importance. Unable to risk having their legal contracts invalidated by the new law, the couple made the difficult decision to leave Virginia.
Barbara and Tibby provide a very real glimpse into the misunderstood and often demonized "lifestyle" of GLBTQ America, and by doing so, they put a face on the law’s oppression and its far-reaching consequences. The battle against this specific legislation in Virginia, and similar legislation across the country, continues. Learn the policies of your state and promote informed discussions in your community.*
The documentary also features three songs by Gaye Adegbalola of Saffire-The Uppity Blues Women.
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* This 38 minute DVD can be used as a tool to educate, facilitate and promote informed discussions within a variety of group or classroom settings, including but not limited to: