Unconditional love is life-saving and to the teens who have been disowned by your friends, family, or church, just know there are people out here who love, accept, and believe in you. I hope your family comes around someday, but as many of us have learned, family doesn't always mean related by blood. Surrounding yourself with people who do love and support you is one of the best things you can do.
I will never be able to understand how parents, the ones who are supposed to love you the most, can fight the hardest to keep you from being who you were destined to be.
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Shane Bitney Crone
WHO IS SHANE BITNEY CRONE ??
BRIDEGROOM
tells the emotional journey of Shane and Tom, two young men in a loving
and committed relationship that was cut tragically short by a misstep
off the side of a roof. The story of what happened after this accidental
death– of how people without the legal protections of marriage can find
themselves completely shut out and
ostracized– is poignant, enraging and opens a window onto the issue of
marriage equality and human rights like no speech or lecture ever will.
On the anniversary of Tom’s death, after a year of documenting his own grief, Shane decided to make a video tribute to his partner entitled “It Could Happen to You.” The video went viral and garnered over four million views to date. Although it was a cathartic process for him and a tribute to the love of his life, more than anything, Shane wanted it to serve as a warning to other LGBT couples, and show the world what can happen when two people are legally barred from having equal rights and equal protections under the law to marry.
Director Linda Bloodworth Thomason compiles a remarkably vast amount of personal footage and photographs, giving the movie an intensely personal edge. BRIDEGROOM piercingly conveys the imperative of human and civil rights, and makes a plea to open hearts and minds that Tom and Shane’s love is no different than any others. It is a love story, unequaled.
BRIDEGROOM received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. It subsequently screened at Little Rock Film Festival, Toronto Inside Out Festival , Outfest Los Angeles and Outflix Memphis, Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary at all five festivals.
BRIDEGROOM is directed, written and produced by Linda Bloodworth Thomason (“Designing Women”), and produced by Shane Bitney Crone. Virgil Films will release BRIDEGROOM in theaters in New York City on October 4, and in Los Angeles on October 18, followed by video on demand and DVD rollouts later this fall.
(All right reserved. No part of the above be reproduced without the permission
of Shane Bitney Crone)
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On the anniversary of Tom’s death, after a year of documenting his own grief, Shane decided to make a video tribute to his partner entitled “It Could Happen to You.” The video went viral and garnered over four million views to date. Although it was a cathartic process for him and a tribute to the love of his life, more than anything, Shane wanted it to serve as a warning to other LGBT couples, and show the world what can happen when two people are legally barred from having equal rights and equal protections under the law to marry.
Director Linda Bloodworth Thomason compiles a remarkably vast amount of personal footage and photographs, giving the movie an intensely personal edge. BRIDEGROOM piercingly conveys the imperative of human and civil rights, and makes a plea to open hearts and minds that Tom and Shane’s love is no different than any others. It is a love story, unequaled.
BRIDEGROOM received its world premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival 2013, where it won the Audience Award for Best Documentary. It subsequently screened at Little Rock Film Festival, Toronto Inside Out Festival , Outfest Los Angeles and Outflix Memphis, Louisiana Gay and Lesbian Film Festival, winning the Audience Award for Best Documentary at all five festivals.
BRIDEGROOM is directed, written and produced by Linda Bloodworth Thomason (“Designing Women”), and produced by Shane Bitney Crone. Virgil Films will release BRIDEGROOM in theaters in New York City on October 4, and in Los Angeles on October 18, followed by video on demand and DVD rollouts later this fall.
(All right reserved. No part of the above be reproduced without the permission
of Shane Bitney Crone)
~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
* Love and Marriage is about
Heart to Heart, Soul to soul
not just about A man and his lady.*
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