The American LGBTQ community is at a pivotal moment in history, but the focus on state and federal LGBTQ battles often overshadows an even broader picture: LGBTQ global issues.
With LGBTQ rights battles in several states including Maine & Washington presently, LGTQ legislation being voted on in congress, and activists marching on the streets of Washington it is easy to forget what our LGBTQ brothers and sisters are enduring abroad. Gay Lebanese filmmaker Marc Abi Rached urges us not to with his abrasive yet poignant film, “Help.â€
“Help†breaks down Arab & LGBTQ stereotypes through its three central young characters, one of them gay, and their honestly told journey through the rocky and dangerous Lebanese underground.
Rached’s debut feature film, “Help,†is making its Los Angeles Premiere this Friday, October 23rd, at the 13th Annual Arab Film Festival.
From the AFF website:
Lebanese filmmaker Marc Abi Rached’s debut feature film tells the tale of a teenager, Ali, whose life is turned upside down when he meets Souraya, a prostitute living with a gay man who is threatened by a mobster. A highly controversial film, Help has tested the boundaries of the Lebanese censors with its use of nudity and the raw manner in which it explores social taboos.
The film, being co-presented by the Equal Roots Coalition & GLAAD, is an opportunity for the Los Angeles LGBTQ community to take a look at LGBTQ issues beyond state lines and beyond America’s borders.
Here’s the trailer:
Or the  YouTube trailer:
AÂ review from it’s San Francisco debut:
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