Stay strong! It’s a shame they haven’t managed to understand…

I’m new to this site and there’s two things I have to say thanks for here. For one, SnagFilms is probably my favorite website now. I love LOVE love Documentaries. And this is an excellently built site with a fantastic selection of Docs.

Now, more to the point, a BIG thanks to the director for the brave exhibition of his personal life he put on for us here. Relative Freedom not only poses a very intimate scope of the ongoing tensions between vehement religious conservatism and struggling civil freedom for the GLBT community in America. (Where the film bares it’s strongest metaphoric relevance)

In a more literal tense, I was very charmed by the film. Even within it’s short duration, I was drawn to immediate empathy for the film’s main subject person in his passive, yet, vulnerable regard towards documenting his family’s perspective on their son/brother’s revelation. For the good, I laughed spiritually at the warmth of genuine love and sympathy. For the bad, I actually shed a few tears at the pain of emotional laceration knowing these things often times never heal fully or properly. It was, in a word, Reminiscent. But also it was really, really good. 

Finally, as a lasting impression, I was personally inspired. That is, to say, introspectively inspired by Relative Freedom. Like many gays & lesbians, the subject took me back to my own awkward experience with coming out. Even after finishing the film, it rings out in my mind how much I love and appreciate my family for their acceptance and understanding. It’s just myself, my mother, my younger brother, my grandmother and two best friends now. That’s all the family I have left. And most of them, even if uneasy themselves, were generally pretty okay with it. And reflecting on that after watching this, well, I found myself dashing to the phone to get in touch with my family just to say thanks.

God!  What a frightening predicament to have been raised by these abject fundamentalist morons!  It’s going to be so enlightening for them to die and see just how very, very wrong they are.  They’re BACKWARDS.  Homosexuals, gay and lesbian have been around since the beginning of time.  GOD CREATED HOMOSEXUALS, its as if we’re here to teach fundamentalists that there’s nothing to support their limited view.

My dead mother was a shrew when it came to homosexuality: my sister humiliated me.  They’re out of my life now thank GOD! 

They, homophobes, are the ones who are wrong.  We, gay men and lesbian women enter this world as gay and lesbian people.  We choose our gay and lesbian lives to grow our souls’ knowledge, which we will bring back to the greater knowledge base of existence; the akashic record, in a parallel universe above our frequency of consciousness in this the physical realm.  We’re here to experience sensual exchanges, how are we to achieve that if we deny ourselves those innate feelings.  Homophobes - leave us alone.  Take your screwed up holy bible clap trap with you too!