Posted on 12/06/2004 11:23:54 PM PST by JohnHuang2
Films featuring steamy homosexual sex scenes were shown at an independent film festival in Delaware on the event's "Kid's Day," while children were entertained in another part of the building.
The Rehoboth Beach Independent Film Festival in Rehoboth Beach, Del., took place Nov. 11-14. The seventh annual event set an attendance record with 22,660 moviegoers.
On Nov. 13, which the festival dubbed "Kids Day," children were shown independent children's films in an upstairs screening room of the Movies at Midway multiplex while explicit sex scenes were screening in other theaters. Also, other non-festival children's movies, including "The Incredibles" and "Polar Express," were being shown simultaneously.
Rehoboth Beach resident Cindy Carter says she was "horrified" by the possibility that on a Saturday afternoon children could easily wander into one of the other theaters and take in part of a sexually explicit independent film.
Carter holds a masters degree in film and video and says she doesn't want to ban homosexual or erotic films, but she questions placing children so near to the screenings.
"There's a very large, very active homosexual group here" in Rehoboth Beach, she told WorldNetDaily, though she says she would be just as outraged if it had been heterosexual sex scenes being shown at the festival.
"They weren't checking IDs," she said, "and there were no age restrictions for any of the films."
"I thought this was irresponsible," she continued. "They were endangering children."
Carter researched several of the unrated films shown at the festival and discovered the explicit nature of the movies being shown.
"There was really no way to know this was happening," Carter told WND, saying the festival's brochure did not communicate how explicit some of the films were.
Carter went on a local talk-radio show to publicize the issue, but she was criticized by local homosexual activists.
Said Carter: "The local newspaper, which has a lot of homosexuals who work there, which is fine, said I bashed the film, but nobody wanted to address the child-endangerment issue."
Emphasizing that she is not a lawyer, Carter noted she thinks the festival may have broken Delaware obscenity laws by having children in the multiplex while explicit homosexual films were playing. A strip joint or X-rated theater would not have a "Kids Day" where children are entertained in the same building, she said.
Carter pointed out one of the films in question had a title that children would be attracted to – "Bear Cub." The film, however, is not family fare.
"Bear Cub" begins with an explicit homosexual sex scene featuring three men.
Said a review of the film: "This film pulls no punches as to its display of Pedro's active sexual lifestyle. We are treated to his sexual escapades vividly."
One review from a homosexual publication urges the reader to "get there on time for a very hot opening credits sequence! … There's a big fat erection in the opening credits!"
Another reviewer pans the film for including the "unnecessary long sequence ... as well as another one in a gay bathhouse."
Another film shown on "Kids Day" was "Sugar." In "Sugar," a homosexual teenager loses his virginity to a male prostitute on screen. The drug-dependent hooker also services an obese woman in the film.
A third questionable film is "X, Y," which tells a dark story about gender identity and includes an ample supply of blood, sex and piercings.
Sue Early, the festival's managing director, said Carter's concerns were overblown.
"There were implications that we were showing graphic movies during our 'Kids Day' on Saturday. We don't show any pornography at the festival," Early told the Delaware Coast Press. "And the kids' movies were all shown in the upstairs screening room, not in the theaters, where the children were accompanied by their parents."
Quipped Carter: "I'm afraid to think of what she considers pornography."
Carter says another problem was the fact that alcohol was being served in a tent outside the multiplex.
"We've had a very big problem around here with gay men being arrested in bathrooms having sex," Carter said, wondering what a pedophile might do "after having drinks outside, coming back in, watching sexually explicit gay porn, and then going into a bathroom where little children are."
Carter has been frustrated that no one locally would address the issue. She sent a nine-page letter to several elected officials, as well as a U.S. Attorney and state Attorney General M. Jane Brady, hoping that someone might hold the festival to account.
"The local media won't touch it," she said. "This is a very wealthy group of homosexuals."
Referring to next year's festival, Carter commented: "This has got to never happen again."
a nambla festival?
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Sick bastards.
The non-breeders hate the breeders.
Sooner or later, they're going to regret coming out of the closet, much less going after our kids. Bigtime.
Nuff said.
Agree.
I don't have any way of knowing exactly what the parameters were back there, but the weekend child crowd out here is parentless at the movies. They watch one movie and move on to the next. Children as young as 7 to 9, are left to fend for themselves. Many times I have seen these children in "R" rated movies with no adults around.
At one screening, I asked to see the manager of the theater before an "R" film started. There were some very young unattended children in the theater. He refused to remove them. It made me wonder what the "R" rating was worth, if children could seem them anyway.
This lady may have a very valid point. It does concern me that kids might be there unattended, even if they are truly not going to be able to access the films. Still, is that the atmosphere you'd want your kids in the proximity of?
I guess it shouldn't surprise me that the powers that been in the city in question, won't even acknowledge or discuss the issue. Still, it is disgusting.
The counter-balancing is happening though big-time right now.
I sure hope so. Can you explain what you see that indicates this to you. I desperately want it to be so.
All of this merely cheapens and debases the gay rights movements. What in the world do they think they gain by continually flaunting ALL of their sexual activities? Looks like they are begging for laws to prevent the public viewing of all sexual depravity in any form whatsoever.
Let them be informed. We do not intend to publicly watch trash, we will not allow depravity in any form total reign over our children.
There are many people that prefer sex remain a private issue. Actions such as the above will merely make me promote laws to prevent anyone having to be exposed to grossness, sexual porn, depravity unless they themselves make a decision otherwise.
Their rights better not stomp on my rights or there will be more stomping.
Well said.
sick
"They are sick yet see themselves as healthy.
Defense mechanism
In psychoanalysis, any of a variety of unconscious personality reactions which the ego uses to protect the conscious mind from threatening feelings and perceptions. Sigmund Freud first used defense as a psychoanalytic term (1894), but he did not break the notion into categories, viewing it as a singular phenomenon of repression. His daughter, Anna Freud, expanded on his theories in the 1930s, distinguishing some of the major defense mechanisms recognized today. Primary defense mechanisms include repression and denial, which serve to prevent unacceptable ideas or impulses from entering the conscience. Secondary defense mechanisms—generally appearing as an outgrowth of the primary defense mechanisms—include projection, reaction formation, displacement, sublimation, and isolation.
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