documentaries

Steve, Scott, Drew, and Randy are fathers who happen to be gay. They fulfilled their desire to be parents through adoption, surrogacy and co-parenting. But being a gay parent requires a unique set of tools to deal with the legal and emotional issues involved.

NewsBlaze reviews Meema Spadola's film about kids of lesbian and gay parents.

Spadola's documentary - called Our House: A Very Real Documentary About Kids of Gay & Lesbian Parents [2000] - is threaded with interviews involving families like ours. Incidentally, Spadola is the daughter of a lesbian. The director uses her own life lessons to examine the diverse experiences our children.

Cynthia Wade's moving 38-minute documentary film - Freeheld - chronicling New Jersey Police Lieutenant Laurel Hester's landmark legal battle to transfer her pension to her domestic partner has been nominated for an Academy Award in the Best Documentary Short Subject category.

The film was awarded a Special Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival and picked up eleven additional awards at film festivals in New York, Los Angeles, Boston, Seattle and Denver.

Anyone and Everyone is a documentary film about having a lesbian or gay child.

Families from diverse backgrounds including Japanese, Bolivian, and Cherokee - and various religious denominations like Mormon, Jewish, and Southern Baptist - share their sensitive stories of children coming out.

The parents also talk about being ostracized by relatives, friends, and religious congregations.

"It was so evil and so bad that we almost couldn’t talk about it... You just had the idea it was so terrible that it was unspeakable," said a Mormon mother in the film.

CNN's Wolf Blitzer recently interviewed Chrissy Gephardt and her dad to discuss Chrissy's new film, For the Bible Tells Me So.

Here's a transcript of the appearance:

WOLF: The former House majority leader and presidential candidate, Dick Gephardt, is teaming up with his daughter, Chrissy. They’re speaking out about her decision to come out. They appear in a new documentary about Christianity and homosexuality.

TV and film producer Daniel Karslake studies reactions of devout Christians who learn their child is gay.

In his first project since working on In The Life, Karslake said he felt a need to reach beyond an audience that already accepted partnered gays and lesbians.

Focusing on the gays-in-the-church debate - For the Bible Tells Me So features many pro-gay veterans of the theological debates.