The New Black
Human Rights Watch Film Festival 2013
June 13 - 24, 2013
New York premiere! Q&A with filmmaker!
The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with LGBT rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights. The film examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church.
New York premiere! Q&A with filmmaker!
The New Black tells the story of how the African American community is grappling with lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) rights in light of the marriage equality movement and the fight over civil rights. We meet activists, families, and clergy on both sides of the campaign to legalize same-sex marriage in Maryland, a state with a 30 percent African-American population. Through this story, the film examines homophobia in the black community’s institutional pillar—the black church—and reveals the Christian right wing’s strategy of exploiting this phenomenon in order to pursue an anti-gay political agenda. The New Black takes viewers into the pews and onto the streets as it tells the story of the historic fight to win marriage equality in Maryland and charts the evolution of this divisive issue within the black community.
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