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Assault on Gay America*
- 2000 ----- color ----- 54 min ----- vhs
- (Frontline series) In February 1999, in Sylacauga, Alabama, 30-year-old computer programmer Bill Jack Gaither was murdered, the victim of a violent hate crime. The accused killer, a known white supremacist, testified he killed Gaither because he was "queer." Why have gays like Gaither and Matthew Shepard become the targets of such brutality? Frontline correspondent Forrest Sawyer explores the roots of homophobia in America -- as a catalyst for hate crimes and as a phenomenon that permeates our society -- and asks how these attitudes, beliefs and fears contribute to the recent rise in violence against gays. (Closed-Captioned) (Restricted to classroom use only)
- Topics: (Community Life, Discrimination, Family Life, Public Health and Safety, Social Work, Sociology, Women Studies)
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