Illegal Love is a French documentary about the fight over California’s Proposition 8 (and, to an extent, the fight over gay marriage in the United States general, since you’ll notice that the money and muckety-mucks of the anti-lgbt forces tend to pour into battleground states from all over the country). Filmmaker Julie Gali had originally come to the U.S. to cover Barack Obama’s election, but then was hit by the same gut-punch that all Lgbt Californians and their allies were the next morning: One of the nation’s flagship liberal states had just amended its constitution to ban gay marriage.
It’s odd and sort of embarrassing watching an outsider try to make sense of the shameful efforts of one group of our citizens to revoke rights from others. But in a way, seeing the basics get spelled out so that a French viewer can understand what...
It’s odd and sort of embarrassing watching an outsider try to make sense of the shameful efforts of one group of our citizens to revoke rights from others. But in a way, seeing the basics get spelled out so that a French viewer can understand what...
- 10/28/2011
- by Ali Davis
- AfterEllen.com
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