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From Where We Stood: AIDS and the Culture Wars


This has been a busy and productive year 
and the journey is amazing.  


The big news is the documentary has morphed into a “limited series.” I have the first three episodes done and others very close.


Late last year I was able to hire (fresh from film school with at masters degree) a professional assistant editor, Carly Wymer, who is fixing transitions, balancing sound, and making all the colors match between the two cameras. She has been invaluable and her work is fantastic.


Screening in Tyler, TexasMostly Feedback

At The Darl Center screenings in April, the two audiences differed, as did some reactions - the later crowd being mostly LGBT+ folks. Both shows were extremely productive.


I was reminded that I needed to include more of the anti-gay propaganda; talk more about the symptoms, the physical wasting, and the deadly effects of the virus.  Another asked if I could identify the locations better.


 I made some big adjustments before a screening in New Orleans, for part of “Louisiana Queer Arts” conference. Again the feedback was constructive. 


The audience there consisted of mainly older gay men (well ok, my age). They asked that I slow the pacing down, and to please put people’s names on the screen for longer and more often.


Once I began to slow things down, the project really began to take shape. It was also now getting longer, and no one wanted me to cut anything. So a series was decided.


The Late Bryan Jones
People with AIDS Advocate, Cleveland.

What’s left?
Editing, editing, editing.

Once I began to slow things down, the project really began to take shape. It was also now getting longer, and no one wanted me to cut anything. So a series was decided.


Many of the stories are already finished, but other more complicated stories are not. For example I am starting to work on the “Gays in the Military” issue, how we got Clinton elected and the “Don’t Ask Don’t Tell” fiasco. This is important history that continues to “dog” our community today, and I have lots of my own archival footage to dive into.


What we need

I am unable to pay my assistant on a regular basis, which is slowing things down, 

and we have licensing fees to cover on any outside copyrighted material used. 

We need $40,000 to finish expediently. 

We will be seeking grants again,
but the funding climate for us is brutal in today’s world.


Please consider a donation this year to the
LGBT Legacy Project



Help us finish this timely production. 

Every dollar always counts.  

Thank you 




https://lgbtlegacyproject.org/



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