Ballot Measure 9

Ballot Measure 9

queer, woman filmmaker, documentary, activism,

Gift from filmmaker, used for teaching and research.

1994

VHS

Documentary

"BALLOT MEASURE 9 is the chilling true story of the unprecedented violence unleashed by an anti-gay campaign in Oregon, when activists slept with guns under their beds and had full-time police protection." (Collective Eye)

BALLOT MEASURE 9 is the chilling true story of the unprecedented violence unleashed by an anti-gay campaign in Oregon, when activists slept with guns under their beds and had full-time police protection. Winner of jury and audience awards internationally, Sundance-winner BALLOT MEASURE 9 offers terrifying inside views of the struggle state-wide. Inflammatory rhetoric led to a surge in anti-gay harassment, physical attacks and even murder. Activists feared for their lives, families were torn apart, neighbor set against neighbor. Director MacDonald ducks behind the headlines to bare the passions and strategies that drove both sides, telling a story of driving urgency. As the violence escalates, the documentary acquires the tension and suspense of a fiction film. --Kanopy

1:12 mins

Heather MacDonald

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=11667029&node=51415175&a=209392787