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A Tribeca Film Festival Transphobic Failure

Started by Shana A, March 26, 2010, 08:44:34 AM

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March 26, 2010, 08:44:34 AM

A Tribeca Film Festival Transphobic Failure
by Michael A. Jones March 25, 2010 03:42 PM (PT)

http://gayrights.change.org/blog/view/a_tribeca_film_festival_transphobic_failure

Art should definitely be given a fair share of creative license. But sometimes, can it go too far?

That's the question facing LGBT activists with a new film scheduled to show at Tribeca Film Festival. The saying goes that you can't judge something by its cover, but in this case, the title of the movie and the movie's poster certainly says a lot: Ticked-Off ->-bleeped-<-s with Knives.

Offensive terminology? Yup. As Autumn Sandeen writes over at Pam's House Blend, the word "->-bleeped-<-" is pretty darn offensive -- equally as much as words like "->-bleeped-<-got" or "sodomite."
"Be yourself; everyone else is already taken." Oscar Wilde
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