I watched this movie with my husband, and neither one of us could speak. We were so shocked and so revolted by the vicious, self-righteous, disgusting prejudice against gays that so many people felt comfortable expressing. I agree with another reviewer -- the Cantor Fitzgerald story was the worst. Two bosses, Bill Rice and Sean Blakesly, abused a gay worker in the most horrifying ways. They made a video in which they wore paper bags over their heads decorated with a black man's face, and an Asian man's face -- why didn't they just wear Klan hoods and admit what they really are? -- and proceeded to ridicule the gay employee. They then STEAL HIS CAR and paint it over with horrifying anti-gay slogans. This movie was shown at a training session and this poor man had to sit there with others and watch it! This is just one of many horrifying things they did. These people are the lowest of the low. They were WORSE than the worst juvenile I have ever encountered. I was stunned. I couldn't believe educated people were acting like this. The rage I felt towards those men, and the sympathy I felt for their victim, is not to be described. The other stories are horrible, also. One guy was beaten up for the crime of being gay. Another woman lost her job, and the people of her "community" were taped saying things like gay people shouldn't be able to work in a restaurant. Huh? Why does this happen? I recommend this movie highly AND WISH IT WERE ON DVD!! THIS WOULD BE SUCH A GREAT TEACHING TOOL! HINT, HINT! I think people should see this movie just to see how ugly and harmful and DISGUSTING prejudice is.
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Sexual Orientation Harrasment in the Workplace
Havan_IronOak28 February 2003
This film tells three stories of discrimination in the workplace based on sexual orientation.
The first story deals with Cracker Barrel's 1988 Policy that all gay workers would be fired. The story centers on a lesbian in the south who had worked for them for number of years as a cook. When she was fired she went to Queer Nation who helped her publicize her story. Their actions resulted in the largest boycott of a business ever related to sexual orientation issues.
The second story deals with the blatant hazing of a new trainee at Cantor Fitzgerald (L.A.) when it was learned that he was gay. The hazing went so far as to include posting nudie picture with the trainee's head pasted on and even to professionally repainting his car with sexual epithets. Making this all the more blatant was a video that was produced of the hazing that was shown at a national conference.
The third story deals with a third generation autoworker who was employed at Chrysler. While he encountered rampant prejudice as well, he was able to make some progress in educating some folks and even was successful in getting some anti-discrimination language added to the Unions contract wordings.
Of the three stories, I was most affected by the Cantor Fitzgerald piece. The bigots involved in these episodes were bright college educated men who should have learned better somewhere along the way. These bigots were even equal opportunity offenders in that the video they made of having the guys car painted with sexual sayings shows them parading around in BLACK FACE and YELLOW FACE disguises.
The first story deals with Cracker Barrel's 1988 Policy that all gay workers would be fired. The story centers on a lesbian in the south who had worked for them for number of years as a cook. When she was fired she went to Queer Nation who helped her publicize her story. Their actions resulted in the largest boycott of a business ever related to sexual orientation issues.
The second story deals with the blatant hazing of a new trainee at Cantor Fitzgerald (L.A.) when it was learned that he was gay. The hazing went so far as to include posting nudie picture with the trainee's head pasted on and even to professionally repainting his car with sexual epithets. Making this all the more blatant was a video that was produced of the hazing that was shown at a national conference.
The third story deals with a third generation autoworker who was employed at Chrysler. While he encountered rampant prejudice as well, he was able to make some progress in educating some folks and even was successful in getting some anti-discrimination language added to the Unions contract wordings.
Of the three stories, I was most affected by the Cantor Fitzgerald piece. The bigots involved in these episodes were bright college educated men who should have learned better somewhere along the way. These bigots were even equal opportunity offenders in that the video they made of having the guys car painted with sexual sayings shows them parading around in BLACK FACE and YELLOW FACE disguises.
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