Homosexual sex screened on 'Kids Day'

World Net Daily ^ | 12/7/2004 | Ron Strom

[Taggart_D]

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."

[Taggart_D]

I think Modernman may have been sitting in the theatre that the "questionable" material was being displayed....don't waste your time.

[HostileTerritory]

Was it the same theater, or was it different theaters under the same roof? It sounds like a multiplex situation to me, but perhaps I'm wrong, and they were screening "Bear Cub" to a room that had kids in it.

[HostileTerritory]

I understand that "Saving Private Ryan" aired at the same multiplex as several children's movies when it was in cinematic release. We can't have that. The kids may not have been in the same theater, but they were in the same theater, so they may have absorbed the cussing by osmosis.

Or something.

[Question_Assumptions]

If you've ever been to a multiplex, you should know how easy it is to wander from theater to theater or walk into the wrong one. There was also some concern about having children share the same bathroom as adults who were watching sexual explicit movies. If you don't know why that's a concern, I'll see if I can get you a copy of the notice that they have posted on the bathrooms at our local college libraries.

[Modernman]

How many kids are left to watch what they want etc.

That is, at the end of the day, the fault of parents.

[Modernman]

I'll take that as an admission that you've never been to Rehobeth and don't know what you're talking about.

[Question_Assumptions]

I think it's important to remind people that people used to expect public places to be "family friendly" and, for the most part, they were for many years in this country. That includes everything from beaches and the movies shown in public theathers to radio and television. At some point, the burden of decency shifted onto parents, who are now expected to lock their children in their houses and to burn their televisions and radios if they don't want their children exposed to adult material. At some point, the United States became a very hostile place for children.

[Phocion]

Who said anything about a gay film festival? It was an independent film festival showing all kinds of movies, some of which (but not all or even a majority) had gay themes or characters. The differences between these films and any other is the budget and distribution. Reading the site, there were films with nudity and sex scenes like any other R movie intended for adults, but generally it was arthouse-type films. None were hardcore pornography. The kids weren't even on the same floor of the building, and were with their parents.

These types of festivals happen in just about every city in the country. Not just big cities either.

I'm all for protecting children, but I don't think any children were harmed by this.

[Modernman]

I think Modernman may have been sitting in the theatre that the "questionable" material was being displayed....don't waste your time.

Quite a lot of attitude, for a newbie.

[F16Fighter]

"Ocean City is a little trashy, kind of like the Jersey shore."

Hey pal -- New Jersey has 127 miles of beach.

What makes you think it's "trashy" besides Seaside Heights and Asbury Park?

[HostileTerritory]

If you've ever been to a multiplex, you should know how easy it is to wander from theater to theater or walk into the wrong one.

I never went to the movies alone before I was a teenager, and then I would probably have said "eww" if I walked into trash like "Bear Cub" and walked away. The "Polar Express" crowd is not unattended, and could just as easily walk into an R-rated sexually-explicit movie in the same multiplex. Which is where this discussion leads--kicking R-rated movies (which include female nudity and adult language) out of the multiplex because some lazy parent might let her six-year-old wander the mall by herself. No thanks.

R-rated movies play next to G-rated movies about 1,000 times as often as this kind of stuff happens. What do you think should be done about that? Pitchforks and torches?

[tiamat]

I'm biased.

I grew up just outside of Detroit, about a block off of Woodward.

I wandered some, but I always had a parent at home, and was never out late. It was simply too dangerous.

This was in the 60's and 70's.

Things AREN'T and never have been "nice". We just never used to talk about it.

If you had the grand-father who was raping his little grand-daughters, it didn't get talked about.

If you had a mother who enjoyed getting drunk and beating the living he%% out of her kids just because she could, you didn't dare mention it.

If Daddy drank the paycheck, you kept it a secret for as long as you could.

And it wasn't just "poor" families. That sort of stuff happens in "nice" families, too. always has, always will.

And it has never been safe to let a kid wander after dark.

That Roman law you cite depends on the period, the Emperor ( if it's Post-Republic) and where in the Empire you were.

The Romans got a lot of things right.

[Delphinium]

Yes it is the fault of the parents, and many of them are Christians who would be shocked to know.

They are too busy making money to keep up with neighbors, etc.

It does not change the fact that all of these thousands of children who will be soon voting, and leading our county are being brainwashed by tv, and public schools.

[Modernman]

Hey pal -- New Jersey has 127 miles of beach.

Fair enough. I should have said the "Stereotypical New Jersey Shore."

[ladyjane]

None were hardcore pornography.

Sorry - but a 20 foot high penis - even if flaccid - is hard core to me.

[Question_Assumptions]

The way many multiplexes are designed, it also wouldn't be that difficult to firewall the two types of movies into different wings. Of course many parents also have cable movie channels and don't lock out the adult movies, either, which is why all movies were family friendly for a few decades there. While that might be too far in the other direction, I think it was closer to what would be healthiest for the country and it's children.

And this still doesn't address the bathroom issue.

[F16Fighter]

How much more evidence is needed that Gay Radicals -- who have indeed infested positions of power and influence in schools, politics and business -- are currently engaging in a cultural war and "scorched earth" policy?

Under the cover of "hate crimes" legislation, these same Gay Radicals will stop at nothing to subvert all that is decent and good.

It's gonna get messier, folks.

[F16Fighter]

Thank you. (yep, some of us are a bit sensitive about this ;-)

[doberville]

We have a home in Fenwick Island and have been in the area for 40 years. The homosexual stuff started in the Seventies.

Everything north of Bethany Beach starts getting pretty obvious. And yes, the 'Gays' have taken over. Where you go determines just what you'll see. There are openly sexual beaches around. It's not going to get better; in fact, it has become much worse.

Too bad, really. It's really a nice area. Sigh.

[Modernman]

I lived in Jersey City for a while. I'm actually quite fond of the Garden State.