On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old ...
On a hot summer evening in the gay-friendly West Village neighborhood of New York City, seven young women from New Jersey were verbally threatened and physically attacked by a twenty-nine-year-old man. In a not uncommon travesty of justice, the New Jersey Seven, as they came to be called, were sent to prison for defending themselves. The Fire This Time tells the story of the seven womens trial and prison sentences, and the years-long fight by relatives and activists to get the women released. Along the way, the film reveals in devastating detail how the media, homophobia, and racism all work together in American culture to stigmatize and victimize gay people of color.
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I really wanna see this, so Imma have to find the time. What happened to them is injustice at it's worst and it's disheartening. Is this how my lesbian sisters deserve to be treated? Is this how I'm gonna be treated when I have to defend myself. I hope the hell not.
I hope the media gets their shit together too. That whole 'killer lesbians' bit was not right at all.
I took in a female friend and her female partner after they lost everything they had and had nowhere else to go. For several months, it was like living with two sisters that I never had. They took better care of me than my straight girlfriends and I was sad when they finally left. The idea that some jackass could get away with abusing them frankly makes my blood boil. As long as you do no harm, you should be allowed to live your life as you please.
I'm writing this paper now on how these young people have been condemned to premature social deaths because they to defend themselves against terroristic street violence. I am so, so glad that the producers of this video are keeping these women's perspectives and histories alive by making this film. Thank you, thank you, thank you.
this makes me so angry. these women defended themselves from a man harassing them and they end up with sentence of more than a decade while rapist and murders of children get slapped on the wrists. I am sorry but as a white man, I know that the most dangerous people are the one with power, men, people with money and white privilege. These women are no threat to anyone but sexist, racism homophobic people that want queers, women and people of color destroyed.
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I hope the media gets their shit together too. That whole 'killer lesbians' bit was not right at all.