Gen silent /
What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon and said that you are going to hell unless you change your sexual preference? Sound absurd? Social workers around the world say it's happening every day. Gen Silent is the critically acclaimed doc...
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Streaming video (MCPHS users only) MCPHS users also have access via this URL to the abridged version of Gen Silent |
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| Format: | Electronic Video |
| Language: | English |
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| Summary: | What would you do if you were old, disabled or ill - and the person feeding you put down the spoon and said that you are going to hell unless you change your sexual preference? Sound absurd? Social workers around the world say it's happening every day. Gen Silent is the critically acclaimed documentary from filmmaker Stu Maddux that asks six LGBT seniors if they will hide their friends, their spouses- their entire lives in order to survive in the care system. Their surprising decisions are captured through intimate access to their day-to-day lives over the course of a year. It puts a face on what experts in the film call an epidemic: gay, lesbian, bisexual or transgender older people so afraid of discrimination by caregivers or bullying by other seniors that many simply go back into the closet. Unlike any film before, Gen Silent startlingly discovers how oppression in the years before Stonewall now affects older lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender people with fear and isolation. Many who won the first civil rights victories for generations to come are now dying prematurely because they are reluctant to ask for help and have too few friends or family to care for them. Gen Silent shows the disparity in the quality of paid caregiving from mainstream care facilities committed making their LGBT residents safe and happy, to places where LGBT elders face discrimination by staff and bullying by other seniors. As we watch the challenges that these men and women face, we are offered new hope as each person crosses paths with impassioned people trying to change LGBT aging for the better. Gen Silent's recent screenings include Fortune 500 companies, the world's leading colleges and universities as well as some of its largest conferences on aging, psychology and LGBT advocacy. We are even prouder of the community centers, places of worship and student groups using Gen Silent. |
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| Item Description: | Title from title frames. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 64 min.) : sound, color |
| Production Credits: | Executive producer, Barrie Atkin ; coordinating producer, Ray Richardson ; director of photography, Stu Maddux. |
| Participant or Performer: | Alexandre Rheaume & Lawrence Johnson, Lois Johnson & Claire Barden, Mel Simms, Krysallis Anne Hembrough, Ralph Horne, Jenifer Firestone, Rebecca Heisler, Lisa Krinsky, John O'Neill, Dale Mitchell, Bob Linscott. |
| Language: | Closed-captioned. |
| Date/Time and Place of an Event Note: | Originally produced by Stu Maddux in 2011. |
