A Conversation That Matters with Marta Cunningham

Episode 49

Marta Cunningham

LGBTQ - When will the killing stop?

This week’s Conversation That Matters features Marta Cunningham the American documentary film producer of Valentine Road, a film that looks inside the world of hate directed at Gays, Lesbians and Transgendered.

The film looks at both sides of the murder of Lawrence King, a young man who was shot by a fellow classmate because he let it be known he liked the boy. Cunningham says the film, “isn’t just about the victim but also the perpetrator. It starts with who he was as a person, and how the community at that school, the environment and the culture of hatred that was at that school.”

Cunningham’s film won critical acclaim at the 2013 Sundance Film Festival and was acquired by HBO. She says it’s release comes at a time of flux in North America. She says, “we’ve got this incredible progressive movement, of acceptance. And then we have states popping up right and left that not only are not for marriage equality, but are actually thinking about barring people from restaurants that are LGBTQ,

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