Sexual Orientation

Sexual Orientation: Reading Between the Labels focuses on issues facing gay and lesbian youth and is designed to help build respect between individuals of divergent sexual orientation. Ignorance about homosexuality has contributed to a climate of fear, isolation, discrimination and violence towards those perceived as homosexual. Rather than relying solely on testimony from professionals, Sexual Orientation: Reading Between the Lines provides a forum for gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender teens to speak of their concerns. $195 (rental $50), 30 minutes.

"This video is powerful, positive and open in its approach."
--Journal of Sex Education and Therapy

"While offering examples of how both ignorance and prejudice hurts gay and lesbians, the movie also poignantly illustrates how isolation and hatred are experienced by G/B/L youth."
--American School Counselor Association

"Personal accounts from lesbian and gay teens are interspersed with input from youth workers, medical experts and parents of lesbvian and gay youth in this forthright video on sexual orientation and adolescents."
--The Center for Population Options

Gold Medal: Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Honorable Mention: Central Educational Network
Honorable Mention: National Council on Family Relations
Honorable Mention: Association for the Care of Children's Health

Hate, Homophobia and Schools is designed around a forum of gay and non-gay, some anti-homosexual, youth and adults discussing what it's like to grow up gay in this society. The purpose of Hate, Homophobia and Schools is to lessen the impact of homophobia in our society by helping teens understand what it is like to live with hate and fear and by helping them understand that they can have a direct effect on the quality of life of some of their fellow teens. $195 (rental $50), 60 minutes.

"...a supportive vehicle for teens and adults coming to terms with their own or others' sexual orientation."
--Booklist

"An engrossing 60-minute video that discusses problems and issues of growing up gay."
--Rethinking Schools, Winter 1995

"This program will have a positive impact on school kids, both homosexual and heterosexual, middle and high school staff, and families of these at-risk children."
--National Coalition for Sex Equity in Education

Runner-Up: the National Council on Family Relations Media Awards Competition, 1996.