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The Sakia Gunn Film Project
Director Chaz Brack documents the life, legacy and untimely murder of Sakia Gunn, a 15-year-old lesbian woman of color from Newark, New Jersey.
Sakia held promise as a basketball player and was looking forward to becoming an upperclassman at Newark’s West Side High. She and her friends were returning from socializing at NYC’s Greenwich Village piers, a popular spot for lesbian, gay, and transgendered youth. On the night Sakia was murdered, two men propositioned members of their group. The girls rebuffed the sexual advances of the much older assailants. Words were exchanged, a fight ensued, and Sakia was stabbed. She died in the arms of her best friend.
Learn more about the film and Brack’s fight against homophobic violence by visiting its website here.
Posted by RBMF on March 2, 2005 10:47 AM | Permalink
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