Gay mormon documentary
“Latter Day Jew” is a witty, breezy, but also serious documentary produced by out Philly native Todd Shotz about H. Alan Scott, a year-old same-sex attracted Mormon who converts to Judaism and prepares for his Bar Mitzvah. The film will screen Nov. 16 at the Suzanne Roberts Theater as part of the Jewish Production Festival.
In the documentary, Scott takes a road trip in search of society and belonging to understand to be “the leading Jew possible.” From gathering out comedienne Judy Gold in New York Town to attending Tel Aviv Pride in Israel, Scott learns what it means to be a Jew and become a man.
Scott recently chatted with Philadelphia Gay News about his experiences and “Latter Time Jew.”
You recount your experiences being a Mormon, surviving cancer, being gay and finding your Judaism in a stand-up routine in the film. How did you find the right balance to tell your story with both irreverence and solemnity?
I do everything through comedy. I ponder everything — even drama — is comedy, in some way. That’s how I communicate. I perform think it’s delicate when you talk about cancer or religion, but I think everything fundamentally can be made funny. Humor is the best way for me
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I love the podcast, can’t get enough of it. One (hopefully) constructive criticism that I’d like to give: show notes often do not include items John specifically says will be included in the show notes. As someone who listens while driving, I get excited when it’s stated links will be in the exhibit notes and then I am often disappointed to find them missing. This episode in particular would have benefitted from exhibit notes including the books referenced. The books that were not recommended to be read were all listed, but the other half were not listed and finding that glide in the video presentation would be difficult without knowing the time seal. Again, love the podcast and hope this is a helpful note.
Same here exactly. I am a donor and love the podcast as well, but this happened in a recent episode I watched. It was mentioned that something in particular would be in the present notes and I was planning on following up on it, but it ended up not existence there. Unfortunately I don&#;t remember which episode, I just remember it was one of the more recent ones.
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A Kalamazoo College professor has a featured role in a documentary, premiering Sunday, about the improbable toppling of Utah’s gay marriage ban.
Taylor Petrey, associate professor of religion, says he gave an extensive interview to the makers of “Church and State” about the role of the Salt Lake City-based Church of Latter-day Saints in the fight against legalizing gay marriage.
The movie, premiering at the American Documentary Film Festival in Palm Springs, California, documents how a gay-rights activist teamed with a small Salt Lake City law solid to win an unexpected court ruling that overturned the conservative state’s regulation against same-sex marriage. When the U.S. Supreme Court refused to hear an appeal of the forbid the next October, same-sex attracted marriage became legal in Utah. With a Supreme Court ruling in , it became the statute nationwide.
Utah is more than 60 percent Mormon, and “the conflict between Mormons and gay-rights activists became the defining issue of modern Mormonism,” Petrey says in a clip from the movie trailer.
In the interview for the show, Petrey, who was raised in Utah and is a member of the church, addressed how Mormons, as they sought mainstream acceptance, mov
Enjoying TLC's "My Husband's Not Gay" Doesn't Make You a Monster, It Makes You Tolerant
On Sunday night, TLC aired My Husband's Not Gay, a special "reality documentary" featuring a collective of Mormon men (and their wives) who trial SSA, or "same sex attraction," but choose not to act on their gay urges. Even before the show premiered, more than , people signed a petition advocating for its cancelation, while the president of GLAAD, the Gay & Lesbian Alliance Against Defamation, told The Hollywood Reporter that the show "is downright irresponsible" and "putting countless young LGBT people in harm's way." The common concern here was that the show would shame gay men and reinforce the idea that sexuality can be changed or repressed, and that a man who is gay or bisexual could be happily married to a woman in a solely heterosexual relationship if he only tried hard enough. That concern was legitimate, because the implicit judgment on gay folks, and especially those struggling to reconcile their sexuality with societal/religious constraints, is that they're just not trying hard enough. That's not OK.
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