UN Free & Equal's New Animated Short Video, "The Lesson"

The video aims to raise awareness of the scale and impact of anti-LGBTIQ bullying and calls on parents, teachers, schools and governments to play their part in stamping it out. Created with children's author Daniel Errico and animation house Kavaleer Productions, the video tells the bittersweet story of a boy whose friendship with a girl becomes problematic when his mother sees her kiss another girl.



Free & Equal is a project of the United Nations Human Rights Office. The campaign raises awareness of homophobic and transphobic violence and discrimination, and promotes greater respect for the rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and intersex people everywhere. Find out more here.

Wings' 1927 First On-Screen Same-Sex Kiss

This clip from the 1927 black and white film Wings was moving, and wonderful, and surprising.





Wow. The intimacy of how they held each other... Just, wow.


You can read more about it here at Open Culture

Thanks to my husband for sharing it with me.

First Gay Hug (A Homophobia Experiment)

I thought this was really cool. Watch. Discuss. Engage...

*** UPDATE SAT FEB 28, 2015 ***

It would have been nice if the makers of "First Gay Hug" had been more upfront about it being a work of fiction. My appreciation to Janice who shared this in comments. And yes, check out the actress speaking out video here.

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Until We Could - Poetry and Video Come Together To Create A Powerful Celebration of Love and The Right To Marry

Richard Blanco wrote the beautiful poem, and then it was made into this remarkable video:



You can find out more at The Daily Beast, where I found this video.

GSAs - what a great discussion prompt, about the power of poetry, the power of video, the power of our stories well-told. How can you tell your stories to change your school - and our world - for the better?

Namaste,
Lee

Kim Ho’s 'The Language of Love' - an incredible 9 minute short film about a teen's first love

Watch this

(though be aware the F-word is used once.)



Kim Ho - who's 17 - wrote and starred in it - wow!  You can find out more here.

I'm so grateful to have seen this short movie, and to get to share it with you all.

Namaste,
Lee

ps - Thanks to my husband for sharing it with me.   Je t'aime.