Event

Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South

Small Town Rage: Fighting Back in the Deep South
Dir. Raydra Hall (USA 2016)
Feature Documentary
Run Time: 1 hour 38 min
Saturday May 26th 10:00 AM
8 euro/5 concession
LAB 111/LAB2

Thanks to films such as the heavily sanitized Dallas Buyers Club, the fight for LGBT+ rights, as well as the rights of those suffering from HIV+ and AIDS, has been heavily mythologized in recent years. This brilliant, hard-hitting independent documentary goes a long way to putting that right in that advancing this cause was not solely the doing of swashbuckling, maverick businessmen, but rather it was progress built on the back of the blood, sweat and tears of ordinary people forced into lives of activism in the face of death itself. Small Town Rage covers the hypocrisy of a Republican representative handing death sentences to AIDS sufferers to distract his voting base from his homosexuality as well as the LGBT+ sponsors of his campaign who in turn had used his stance to hand themselves legitimacy and shows how even small bands of activists in the most ideologically hostile environment can make all the difference in the history of humanity.
Jack Brindelli