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The Fire This Time Trailer
By: The Fire This Time
Posted: Sep 4 09
Witnessed: 2231 times
Regions: United States
Issues: Discrimination, Justice, LGBTQ, Minorities, Prisons, Racial discrimination, Rape and sexual abuse, Sexual exploitation, Sexual rights, Violence, Violence against women, Women's rights
Tags: homophobia, justice, Media, stereotypes, stigma, violence
On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old man. In a not uncommon travesty of justice, the New Jersey Seven, as they came to be called, were sent to prison for defending themselves. The Fire This Time tells the story of the seven women’s trial and prison sentences, and the years-long fight by relatives and activists to get the women released. Along the way, the film reveals in devastating detail how the media, homophobia, and racism all work together in American culture to stigmatize and victimize gay people of color.
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