FMP Yr1: Content Research

Content Research

For Sapphic we have looked at quite a few different films and story based video games. We wanted to see how the LGBTQ is being portrayed in the media right now. 

Synopsis from IMDb:

At the edge of adolescence, Tracy is a smart straight-A student--if not a little naïve (it seems...she smokes and she cuts to alleviate the emotional pain she suffers from having a broken home and hating her mom's boyfriend, Brady.) When she befriends Evie, the most popular and beautiful girl in school, Evie leads Tracy down a path of sex, drugs and petty crime (like stealing money from purses and from stores). As Tracy transforms herself and her identity, her world becomes a boiling, emotional cauldron fuelled by new tensions between her and her mother--as well as, teachers and old friends

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Synopsis from IMDb:

Megan is an all-American girl. She's a cheerleader and has a boyfriend, but she doesn't like kissing him very much, and she's pretty tactile with her cheerleader friends, and she only has pictures of girls up in her locker. Her parents and friends conclude that she *must* be gay and send her off to "sexual redirection" school, full of admittedly homosexual misfits, where she can learn how to be straight. Will Megan be turned around to successful heterosexuality, or will she succumb to her love for the beautiful Graham?

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Synopsis from IMDb:

Pennsylvania, 1993. After getting caught with another girl, teenager Cameron Post is sent to a conversion therapy centre run by the strict Dr. Lydia Marsh and her brother, Reverend Rick, whose treatment consists in repenting for feeling "same sex attraction." Cameron befriends fellow sinners Jane and Adam, thus creating a new family to deal with the surrounding intolerance.

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The Religious Aspect of Our Film

Casey and I had the pleasure of filming on location at Stockton Parish Church. 

The Church of England's Views on Sexuality:

The Archbishops of Canterbury and York have today published the Report of the House of Bishops Working Group on Human Sexuality.

Commissioned by the House of Bishops of the Church of England in January 2012, the working group included the bishops of Gloucester, Birkenhead, Fulham and Warwick. The group invited three advisers to join in the work. They were: Professor Robert Song, The Ven Rachel Treweek and the Revd Dr Jessica Martin.

The report considers the rapidly changing context within which the group undertook its work. It examines the available data about the views of the public in our country over time. The report considers homophobia, evidence from science, from scripture and from theologians. During their work, members of the group not only gathered evidence from many experts, groups and individuals but also met a number of gay and lesbian people, often in their homes, to listen to their experiences and insights.

The first recommendation is intended to set the context for the report as a whole. It warmly welcomes and affirms the presence and ministry within the church of gay and lesbian people both lay and ordained.