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Filmmaker Kirby Dick’s fine balance of documentary rigor and muckraking
returns with Outrage, a blistering investigation into closeted gay
politicians who push anti-gay legislation to hide their own sexual impulses.
You might expect such a documentary to collapse in a heap of strident
accusations, but though the hypocrisy is appalling--particularly when it
squashed funding for AIDS research and contributed to thousands of deaths--
Outrage skillfully avoids hysteria, finding humor and even compassion in its
examination of the lives of Republican Senator Larry Craig, New York Mayor
Ed Koch, and others. The documentary also explores other facets of the issue
, including the abundance of gay journalists who help maintain the cloak of
secrecy and the wives who, sometimes knowingly and sometimes in denial,
provide the illusion of conventional heterosexual harmony. The testimonies
of politicians who came out while in office, like Republican Rep. Jim Kolbe
and Democratic Governor of New Jersey James McGreevey, is particularly
moving and illustrates the complexity of the American political scene.
Outrage is most damning of the Bush/Cheney administration, which used gay
marriage as a hot-button issue to manipulate social conservatives. All in
all, a compelling example of fervent but intelligent journalism, applied to
what has become a core issue of this political moment. --Bret Fetzer
Product Description
Boldly revealing the hidden lives of some of the United States most powerful
policymakers, Outrage takes a comprehensive look at the harm they've
inflicted on millions of Americans, and examines the media s complicity in
keeping their secrets. Outrage probes deeply into the psychology of this
double lifestyle, the ethics of outing closeted politicians, the double
standards that the media upholds in its coverage of the sex lives of gay
public figures, and much more.
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