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The Right to Love: An American Family

  • 2012
  • 1h 28m
IMDb RATING
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The Right to Love: An American Family (2012)
"The Right to Love: An American Family" - COMING SOON 2012
Documentary Film (88 minutes)
http://www.jayebirdproductions.com/

Synopsis:

While the passionate debate over the legitimacy of Marriage Equality in the United States rages on, the LGBT community continues to fight for their slice of the American dream. Powered by media, religion and influential anti-gay organizations, the civil right of marriage continues to be held just out of reach for many LGBT citizens. 

"The Right To Love: An American Family" chronicles one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California. A private Californian married gay couple and their two adopted children fight back against discrimination, ignorance and hate through home videos posted on their YouTube channel, 'Gay Family Values'. As they pursue their American Dream, the opposing political, social and religious opinions that pervade society attempts to strip it from them.

Featuring: The Leffew Family ("Gay Family Values" http://www.youtube.com/depfox)

Director: Cassie Jaye
Producers: Christina Clack, Cassie Jaye, Nena Jaye, Jay Pugh, Ford Austin, Matthew Mason, Marc Wasserman
Composer: Edwin Wendler
Music Department: James Fitzpatrick, Jan Holzner, Jakub Mayer, Herman Owen
Sound Department: Mac Smith, Steve Orlando, Frank Clary, Sean England, Ronni Pitman, Charlotte Moore
Visual Effects: Tony Hudson
Additional Camera: Sean Chapin, Chase Whiteside, Erick Stoll (New Left Media), Nathan Haugaard

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The Right to Love: An American Family chronicles one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California.The Right to Love: An American Family chronicles one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California.The Right to Love: An American Family chronicles one story of courage born out of the highly mediatized and controversial Prop 8 2008 election results in California.

  • Director
    • Cassie Jaye
  • Stars
    • Justin R. Cannon
    • Bryan Leffew
    • Jay Leffew
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  • IMDb RATING
    8.0/10
    97
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    • Director
      • Cassie Jaye
    • Stars
      • Justin R. Cannon
      • Bryan Leffew
      • Jay Leffew
    • 2User reviews
    • 10Critic reviews
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    • Awards
      • 2 wins total

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    10Mystical_lonewolf

    This film is a must see documentary!

    It's a documentary film about Jay and Bryan leffew; two gay couple who live in California and had adopted two children; Daniel and Selena. They lived a private life until after Prop 8 has passed in California and they started making Youtube videos to show the world that they are just a family like everyone else and that prop 8 is a unconstitutional, bigoted, and harmful proposition. It shows them as a loving family that they really are, it also shows people who are homophobic who spread hateful and fearful lies, trying to make gay people out to be some evil, diabolical monsters or some claptrap. There are parts in the film that touched a topic about bullying, suicide, acceptance, understanding of LGBT community, and more. I've laughed, cried, and I felt anger towards the homophobic liars like Maggie Gallagher. This is a film that I not only strongly recommend, but I strongly want everyone to see and understand the facts and reality, not the bigoted lies like National Organization for Marriage and other homophobic groups wants us to believe. I even had a great pleasure of meeting the Leffew Family in person. They are wonderful people and they are truly a family.

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    • Trivia
      Producer, Christina Clack, originally found the Leffew family on their YouTube Channel "Gay Family Values" in 2009, when the Leffews only had 3 videos posted.
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      Written and Performed by Wendell Lee

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    • Release date
      • February 6, 2012 (United States)
    • Country of origin
      • United States
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    • Language
      • English
    • Filming locations
      • Los Angeles, California, USA
    • Production company
      • Jaye Bird Productions
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      1 hour 28 minutes
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      • Color
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      • 1.78 : 1 / (high definition)

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