Movie Review: 'Brigroom,' wrten and directed by Lda Bloodworth-Thomason, is a poignant love story of two gay men and a plea for marriage equaly.
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REVIEW: ‘BRIGROOM’ A POIGNANT TALE OF GAY PARTNER’S LOSS
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He says Shane Crone was kept om attendg the funeral state whout gay marriage. He says homophobia and wardice keep stat om enactg marriage equaly.
Fally, for once, I am not aaid to stand up for what I believe and I’m proud, not ashamed, of beg gay. A fight that even spilled to the supposed gay- iendly streets of Sprgfield, Ill where Democrats – not Republins – are power and yet aaid to vote on a bill that would legalize same-sex marriag. All of which remds that homophobia and wardice are not exclive to a particular party.
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The documentary is about Shane and Tom, a gay uple beg together for 6 years until Tom died of fallg om a rooftop accintally 2011 (aged 29), the terviewers (Shane, his fai and their iends) chart the story of their liv om Shane's childhood, his bullied school days and his stgglg self-intifitn of beg a gay man while Tom attend a first-rate high school albe his blue-llar fay background, and turned out to be an all-Amerin boy, handsome, macho, outgog, a role mol excels both sports and amy.
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A faiar juncture for almost every gay person, the g-out procs, particularly to Tom's parochial fay, was an cub, which sheerly ntrasts wh the unrstandable reactn om Shane's fay, however, is all evced sendhand by Shane and their iends, sce Tom's fay adopted the silent treatment to the vatn of the productn team to be part of the film, surely we will never know the story om the other si, which is a mor glch this otherwise viscerally affectg picture. Don't matter if you are gay or straight. I appreciated the cln of both Tom and Shane's early liv of beg gay small town Ameri.
Certaly any homophobia is horrific, but when there are still gay men beg lynched, this story seemed not nearly as dramatic and shockg as others. It felt dimentary, aimed at those who had never known a gay uple and realized 'hey, they're jt people'.
The two men were so eply, sweetly love, and Shane Crone, rather than simply crawl to a shell after the untimely ath of the love of his life, and after beg barred om the funeral by the homophobic fay, and alt many other emotnal (and legal) cuts and bis only bee he and his life partner were gay, managed to rally himself, and make a you tube vio that has reached lns wh an impossible to argue wh plea for gay marriage. I wept through the very movg rpons his vio (the one that got me is a self proclaimed life-long redneck, vowg to never oppose gay lovers aga).
A nonexhstive list of weddg tle choic for anyone gettg married, whether you're gay, lbian, bisexual, queer, heterosexual, male, female, nonbary or any other inty. * bridegroom gay *
As the world go om some sort of malice toward homosexuals to tolerance, movi like this remd you of how silly is people n actively hate a group of people who do them no harm. And the reason I say he seems foreign, is bee seems his ma purpose is to associate Tom and Shane's story wh the ph for marriage equaly and gay rights.
Brigroom is a 2013 Amerin documentary film about the relatnship between two young gay men, produced and directed by Lda Bloodworth-Thomason. The film won the ftival's Audience Award for Bt Documentary Film. The film jotly received the 2014 GLAAD Media Award for Outstandg Documentary alongsi Call Me Kuchu. * bridegroom gay *
And really, the film self, on s own, speaks on why marriage equaly matters as well as speak on the issu a gay person n have this world, pecially if they grow up an area of tolerance. Love isn't a gay or straight thg, 's a human thg. Gay people already know and live the stori.
As an olr gay man I have learned to to emotnally stuff my feelgs down a long dark hole. But ankly, I wept and wept repeatedly after watchg this will first be angry at the celty and humany shown to Shane (the survivg partner of this gay uple) by the fay of his ad lover. Brigroom refers to the last name of the subject of the documentary, Tom Brigroom, a young gay man who tragilly fell to his ath on May 7th, 2011, leavg behd his partner Shane.
Gay or straight, to already have to lose the most important person your life, and then have this unnecsary hate poundg on top, is furiatg.