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Mississippi Queen
Documentary film with a runtime of 63 minutes, released in 2009. Presented in English.
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Synopsis
Paige Williams was raised in a Baptist household in Mississippi where her parents believed loyalty to God was more important than loyalty to family. Williams found out just what that meant when she was a senior in high school; she fell in love with another girl and came out as a lesbian, and from then on her relationship with her parents was never the same. Years later, Williams lives with her partner in Montana and is looking forward to becoming a mother; she is also interested in mending fences with her parents, but that's difficult now that they lead a ministry for gays and lesbians who have renounced their sexual preference in order to be better Christians. Williams explores her troubled relationship with her mother and father was well as the rise of the "ex-gay" movement in Southern Baptist communities in her documentary Mississippi Queen, which includes profiles of clergymen who claim to have been cured of their homosexuality, gays and lesbians who have embraced celibacy in order to conform to church teachings on homosexuality, and folks who discuss the role of the LGBT community in the Deep South. Mississippi Queen was an official selection at the 2010 San Francisco International LGBT Film Festival.
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