The Question of Equality: Culture Wars

Overview

In Culture Wars the civil war for cultural values being fought by right-wing conservatives and gay activists is chillingly depicted: after activists convince authorities to acknowledge the 1990 murder of Julio Rivera in Queens as a hate crime, the murderers are convicted;Jesse Helms uses the public television broadcast of Marlon Rigg’s Tongues Untied to attack the National Endowment for the Arts; and local activists successfully campaign against Oregon’s Religious-Right-sponsored Ballot Measure 9, the first of many initiatives nationwide seeking to curtail civil rights.

Details

Status

Released

Release date

November 10, 1995

Original language

English

Director

Jane C. Wagner,Tina Di Feliciantonio

Budget

Not recorded

Revenue

Not recorded

IMDb

tt13399180