Must Watch Movie 1/24/09 – Prayers for Bobby
Saturday, January 17th, 2009I don’t know about you but I’m always looking for examples of true, heart rending stories showing the real life, negative impacts of heterosexism and homophobia on families. True stories that everyone, even people who follow religious belief systems that deny the fact that gay people exist, have to sit up and take notice of.
Well, I saw a commercial the other day about a really touching movie that is coming to the Lifetime channel this month that might ‘fit the bill’. Prayers for Bobby is the tragically true story of a gay teen who commits suicide because of his mother’s rejection of who he was due to her religious beliefs, and how losing her son forces her to question and then, reconsider, her position. Sigourney Weaver plays the lead and, that fact alone should draw some of us to tune in! 
But, seriously, Prayers for Bobby looks like a ‘must see’ movie for all of us who ‘get it’ and those who don’t…(yet)
Barb Elgin, MSW, LCSW, Certified Singles Coach, is a lesbian dating and relationship expert and matchmaker.
