USU Alum to screen Documentary on Same-sex Marriage

A Utah State University alumnus returns to campus Oct. 21 for a screening and discussion of his award-winning 2010 Sundance documentary, 8: The Mormon Proposition, which examines California’s Proposition 8 outlawing same-sex marriage, the involvement of the LDS Church in that campaign and larger issues of being gay in Utah.

 

Utah native Reed Cowan, a 1997 USU journalism graduate and veteran TV newsman, started out to make a movie about homeless gay teens in Utah, but the 2008 Prop 8 campaign expanded the scope of his project.

 

8: The Mormon Proposition examines the challenges of being gay and lesbian in Utah, and the role of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in passage of California’s vote to rescind a state law permitting gay marriage.

 

The film will be shown Thursday, Oct. 21, at 7 p.m. in the Eccles Conference Center Auditorium at USU, followed by a Q&A discussion. The event is free and the public is invited.

 

Next in the Morris Media & Society Lecture Series is Anne Garrells, National Public Radio’s war correspondent who brings her eye-witness accounts of Iraq, Afghanistan, Kosovo and more to USU with “Bearing Witness — One journalist’s take on covering the world,” Nov. 4, USU Performance Hall, 2-3:30 p.m.

 

For more information, contact the USU Department of Journalism and Communication, 435-797-3293, or email Pease at ted.pease@usu.edu.

 

 

Source: Department of Journalism and Communication