Meanwhile Joe encourages Kathy to fight back, and when she couldn’t get the school to tackle the discrimination that CJ suffered, she made him leave and registered him in a cyber school, and then took the matter to the local School Board. It took time, patience, and help from others and when the Board refused to budge, the ACLU helped her to bring a successful action against them.
This heartwarming film is about courage. And lots of it. When one feels trapped and alone in the world, and safer keeping silent than being one’s self, it takes a C.J. and his mother, to show to us all what being really out and proud is all about. Theirs ends up being a happy story and we see in this wonderful movie that director Joe Wilson has helped make people re-think and sometimes even doing the seemingly impossible such as getting an evangelical pastor go from hate to understanding.
Sitting here in the comfort of a strong community, it’s a gentle reminder that elsewhere even in these so-called enlightened times gay people still have to fight for something that the fundamentalists call an ‘agenda’ but we know it simply as our lives.
Labels: 2009, documentary, gay
