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SAINTS AND SINNERS (Home Use)

Actor: Vincent Maniscalco; Edward DeBonis
ASIN : B001FWY03A
Sales Rank : 162725
Director : Abigail Honor
Studio : Avatar Films
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0883629582597
UPC : 883629582597
Release Date : December 11, 2008
Publisher : Avatar Films
Manufacturer : Avatar Films
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Label : Avatar Films
Running Time : 71

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SAINTS AND SINNERS follows the challenging journey of a devoutly Catholic gay couple determined to marry in a Catholic church. Caring more about formalizing their seven-year union within the Catholic tradition than legal recognition by the state, Edward DeBonis and Vincent Maniscalco pursue their dream, despite the expected rejection from their church's hierarchy. Determined to celebrate their relationship on their terms, the couple presses on with the preparations. But their efforts and search to find a Catholic Church where they can perform the ceremony are to no avail. For Edward, who grew up as an altar boy, and Vincent, who was baptized at Old St. Patrick's Cathedral in Little Italy and who attends Sunday Mass regularly, getting married outside the Catholic tradition is not an option. The couple books St. Peter's Episcopal Church in Manhattan, converts it to suit a Catholic mass and invites a gay Catholic priest to perform the ceremony. Even as previously supportive family members express their reservations about receiving communion from a gay man, Edward and Vincent audaciously seek to become the first gay Catholic couple to have their wedding announcement published in the New York Times. SAINTS AND SINNERS is a highly timely vision of love and commitment, which demonstrates that the struggle for equal rights is not just about legal benefits, but the aspiration to find acceptance and affirmation, rather than rejection, from one's chosen religion.

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Dear Jesse (Col Dol)

Actor: Tim Kirkman; Jesse Helms; Matthew Shepard; Allan Gurganus
ASIN : B000V6LT6M
Sales Rank : 122520
Director : Tim Kirkman
Studio : Sovereign
Region Code : 0
Format : Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0879086000033
UPC : 879086000033
Release Date : December 30, 2007
Publisher : Sovereign
Manufacturer : Sovereign
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Label : Sovereign
Running Time : 83

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Equal parts road movie, political inquiry and person diary, Tim Kirkman's DEAR JESSE is the gay filmmaker's letter to notoriously anti-gay senator Jesse Helms (R-NC). Set against the backdrop of Helms' final senate campaign, the film features interviews with both Helms foes and fans including writers Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus; the state's first openly gay mayor; two AIDS activist-mothers; and people in the street. The film also features a brief interview with Matthew Shepard, the young gay man whose murder called the world's attention to hate crimes. DEAR JESSE received Emmy, Independent Spirit, Gotham and GLAAD Award nominations and was the winner of the Audience Award for Best Documentary at Frameline, the San Francisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, and was named Best Documentary of the Year (Runner-Up) by the Boston Society of Film Critics.

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Tim Kirkman's plainspoken documentary Dear Jesse addresses the five-term "Senator No" from North Carolina repeatedly over the course of its 85 minutes. Although Helms never appears to respond, it's easy to anticipate his answers, especially after the openly gay Kirkman offers countless close-ups of sensational newspaper headlines as well as insensitive replies, typed neatly on Senate letterhead, from Helms's office to concerned constituents. Like Helms, Kirkman is a son of the rural South, who grew up in "a town of banks and churches." As it so happens, however, fewer folk can be seen standing with Helms atop his conservative platform than even Kirkman reckons. Returning from self-imposed exile in New York City, where his ex remains behind eventually to commit suicide (we're never told why), Kirkman travels around his home state in his dad's truck, interviewing his parents, a cousin, old high school chums, a gay mayor, a civil rights activist, mothers who'd lost sons to AIDS, and many others, from left to right. Some support Helms; others want to unseat him; most give him the benefit of the doubt, including novelist Allan Gurganus, who admits to getting a hernia while extending a peculiar Southern gentility, fairness, and concern for character to the intractable politician.

Kirkman comes across as a thoughtful assimilationist: He simply wants gay people to be accepted as churchgoers, married couples, and parents, and can't fathom Helms's rancor, despite the provocative psychologizing of certain interviewees. Likewise, Kirkman locates his work squarely inside the antistyle, point-and-shoot tradition of documentary filmmaking, waving around a handheld camera, often vertiginously, in mostly natural light. The furthest Kirkman goes out on a limb finds him inquiring whether he and Helms might be equally "evil, dangerous, immoral," just in different ways. He answers his own question by appending eerie footage of Matthew Shepard and his African American boyfriend being interviewed outside Catawba College after a Helms lecture--two and a half years before Shepard's murder in Wyoming at the hands of homophobes. --Robert Burns Neveldine

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Actor: Tim Kirkman; Jesse Helms; Matthew Shepard; Allan Gurganus
ASIN : B0015WCT5G
Sales Rank : 165116
Studio : Mega Muscle Producitons, Inc.
Region Code : 0
Feature : Amazon Exclusive - 2 Disc Set!; Features Playgirl magazine's 2006 Man of the Year Derrick Davenport; Features Playgirl magazine's 2007 Man of the Year Julian Fantechi; Exclusive behind the scenes footage at Mega Muscle Expos in New York and Los Angeles
Binding : DVD
EAN : 0899675001593
UPC : 899675001593
Publisher : Mega Muscle Producitons, Inc.
Manufacturer : Mega Muscle Producitons, Inc.
Label : Mega Muscle Producitons, Inc.

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ABC News Primetime Rosie's Story: For the Sake of the Children

Actor: Tim Kirkman; Jesse Helms; Matthew Shepard; Allan Gurganus
ASIN : B000YQP53M
Sales Rank : 163723
Studio : ABC News
Region Code : 0
Format : NTSC
Binding : DVD
UPC : 883629159898
Release Date : December 12, 2007
Publisher : ABC News
Manufacturer : ABC News
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Diane Sawyer explores the state of the nation's foster care system and talks with people on both sides of the controversial issue. Television host Rosie O'Donnell speaks for the first time about her experiences as a gay parent.

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Family Secrets: Introducing Debbie

Actor: Tim Kirkman; Jesse Helms; Matthew Shepard; Allan Gurganus
ASIN : B000O53UU8
Sales Rank : 182170
Brand : TITLE HOUSE DISTRIBUTION
Studio : TITLE HOUSE DISTRIBUTION
Model : 00126
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC, Color, Dolby
Feature : ** A father of two teenage sons decides to live his life as a woman **
Binding : DVD
UPC : 627873001264
Publisher : TITLE HOUSE DISTRIBUTION
Manufacturer : TITLE HOUSE DISTRIBUTION
Label : TITLE HOUSE DISTRIBUTION
Running Time : 22

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Introducing Debbie is Episode 2 of the award winning FAMILY SECRETS documentary series. Each episode focuses on an individual family whose members have been affected by a life-changing event. At the core of each program is an honest, expressive and vulnerable individual who explores the complexity of his/her family ties, while other members try to cope and search for answers. Filmed in a verité style that combines fly-on the-wall observational filming with informal interviews, home movies and personal photos, FAMILY SECRETS is a raw, compelling and honest account of the impact of secrets on families and their lives. Intoducing Deddie Episode Synopsis: A son asks his father how it feels to be a grandmother? The father responds I'm too young to be a grandmother. Meet Debbie, the once-married father of two teenage sons who decides that in order to be his true self, he must live his life as a woman.

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I Have Two Faces: The New York Author Richard Plant

Actor: Tim Kirkman; Jesse Helms; Matthew Shepard; Allan Gurganus
ASIN : 0802604412
Director : Hanna Laura Klar
Region Code : 1
Format : NTSC, Color, Full Screen
Binding : DVD
EAN : 9780802604415
ISBN : 0802604412
Running Time : 44

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Richard Plant was born in Germany in 1910. In his early twenties he escaped to Switzerland and ultimately settled in New York. In Plants own words, he "emigrated as a Jew to survive as a homosexual."During the Nazi era, Americans offered political and spiritual exile to those fleeing Europe, and theologian Paul Tillich helped Plant secure a job and find a place to live. In time, Plant became a professor of German literature and taught for 26 years at New Yorks City College. He also wrote regularly for The New York Times and The New Yorker. He remained faithful to the leftist party even under McCarthys America, and throughout, hid his homosexuality.After retiring in the 1970s, Plant dedicated himself to writing. He went to Germany to research the persecution of homosexuals, and his book on the subject, Pink Triangle, was published in the U.S. in 1986.Alexander Karp was born in New York but now lives in Frankfurt, Germany. He knows Richard Plant only from his books, but his experiences resemble those of Plants, particularly the feeling of isolation in a foreign country, of persecution and fear. Interested in learning more about Plant, he returns to New York and sets out to meet the man whose story has so profoundly affected him.I Have Two Faces is a film about the private odyssey of two men, born decades apart but bound by common ground. As Karp retraces Plants footsteps of more than a half a century before, he tries to understand what it meant to be a homosexual and a Jew in an era of unchecked persecution. His ultimate goal is to interview a man whose political and personal journey stands as a testament of survivaland an inspiration to younger generations.In German (with English subtitles) and English (with German subtitles)

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