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SATURDAY, MAY 29 @ 3:00PM DREAMS DEFERRED: THE SAKIA GUNN FILM PROJECT This documentary tells the little known story of Sakia Gunn, a 15 year old student who was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. Sakia who dressed in masculine attire held promise as a basketball player and was an "A" student, looking forward to becoming a senior at Newark's West Side High School. On the night Sakia was murdered, she and her friends were returning from socializing in NYC. The girls rebuffed the sexual advances of much older male assailants. Words were exchanged, a fight ensued, and Sakia was stabbed. "Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project" depicts the homophobia that caused this murder and questions the lack of media coverage of the murder of a Black Gay teenager. By Charles B. Brack. USA, 2008, 58 min, documentary in English. |
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