While the Lgtbq rights movement has made tremendous strides since that first rock was thrown at the Stonewall Inn in New York City in 1969, there are still many areas of the U.S. where the queer community doesn’t feel safe.
In the new Hulu documentary, “We Live Here: The Midwest,” director Melina Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller chronicle queer families living in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio. “It took a long time,” Maerker told me at the recent Los Angeles “We Live Here” premiere of finding people to participate in the film. “It was really hard.”
“First it was a lot of interviewing families and seeing if they were willing to tell their stories,” Miller said. “But many of them were concerned about their jobs, let alone what their neighbors would feel about them. It was very difficult.”
Maerker added, “They feared a lot of discrimination within their community,...
In the new Hulu documentary, “We Live Here: The Midwest,” director Melina Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller chronicle queer families living in Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas, Minnesota and Ohio. “It took a long time,” Maerker told me at the recent Los Angeles “We Live Here” premiere of finding people to participate in the film. “It was really hard.”
“First it was a lot of interviewing families and seeing if they were willing to tell their stories,” Miller said. “But many of them were concerned about their jobs, let alone what their neighbors would feel about them. It was very difficult.”
Maerker added, “They feared a lot of discrimination within their community,...
- 12/6/2023
- by Marc Malkin
- Variety Film + TV
Chicago – The scapegoating of Lgbtqia+ folks as a backlash to the community progress in the last decade has been swift, fear-based and uniquely unAmerican. In response, producer David Clayton Miller and director Melinda Maerker have created a new doc entitled “We Live Here: The Midwest,” streaming on Hulu beginning December 6th, 2023.
“We Live Here: The Midwest” profiles families who hope to stay in a part of the country they love, and where they have often established deep roots, The doc highlights a trans/queer family with five children in Iowa who must find a new community after being expelled from their church; a gay Black couple with a young daughter who test the line of acceptance in Nebraska; a lesbian couple (interviewed below) homeschooling their bullied son while on a goat-raising farm in Kansas; a gay teacher and his husband in Ohio (interviewed below) creating a safe space for Lgbtqia...
“We Live Here: The Midwest” profiles families who hope to stay in a part of the country they love, and where they have often established deep roots, The doc highlights a trans/queer family with five children in Iowa who must find a new community after being expelled from their church; a gay Black couple with a young daughter who test the line of acceptance in Nebraska; a lesbian couple (interviewed below) homeschooling their bullied son while on a goat-raising farm in Kansas; a gay teacher and his husband in Ohio (interviewed below) creating a safe space for Lgbtqia...
- 12/6/2023
- by adam@hollywoodchicago.com (Adam Fendelman)
- HollywoodChicago.com
In the wake of a Donald Trump presidency in 2016, in addition to the rise of anti-Gay legislation which posed a threat to the marriage equality decision in Obergefell v. Hodges, filmmaker Melinda Maerker and producer David Clayton Miller took the time to check in on the Lgbtqia+ community in the Midwest.
Here was a place of American family values, rattled by rising discrimination; yet several Lgbtqia+ spouses and families opted to stay strong in their communities and live true to themselves. The new Hulu movie, We Live Here is a window into their struggle in schools, churches, and their neighborhoods.
Nia and Katie Chiaramonte
Of those featured in We Live Here, there’s a trans/queer Iowan family, Nia and Katie Chiaramonte, who must find a new community with their five kids after being expelled from their church. There’s Mario and Monte Foreman-Powell, a gay Black couple with a...
Here was a place of American family values, rattled by rising discrimination; yet several Lgbtqia+ spouses and families opted to stay strong in their communities and live true to themselves. The new Hulu movie, We Live Here is a window into their struggle in schools, churches, and their neighborhoods.
Nia and Katie Chiaramonte
Of those featured in We Live Here, there’s a trans/queer Iowan family, Nia and Katie Chiaramonte, who must find a new community with their five kids after being expelled from their church. There’s Mario and Monte Foreman-Powell, a gay Black couple with a...
- 12/5/2023
- by Anthony D'Alessandro
- Deadline Film + TV
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