Dee Mosbacher

Each of the documentaries tackles the emotional issue of discrimination based on sexual orientation and how it affects American families, communities, and churches. Straight from the heart explores parents' journey to understanding and love of their gay and lesbian children. All God's children explores homophobia in the African-American community. De colores presents lesbian and gay Latinos, their stories of strength, family and love, and breaking down cultural prejudice through deep-rooted show more love. show less

"Straight From the Heart explores parents' journeys to a new understanding of their lesbian and gay children by presenting simple stories about real people: a police chief who talks about how proud he is of his lesbian daughter, a Mormon couple whose son is believed to be the first gay man in Idaho to have died from AIDS, and a black woman and her two lesbian daughters who had been accused of 'catching' their lesbianism from white people. One of the most moving segments revolves around the show more late Dr. Roscoe Thorne, father of gay naval aviator Tracy Thorne, who prefaces his support for his son by telling us: 'I had a heck of a time giving up prejudice. I was born in Mississippi and raised there and I didn't think black folks was as good as I was because I was taught that.'" -- Slipcase. show less