Overview - Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

Date of release

Genres

  • Documentary

Runtime: 55 minutes

Homepage: Dreams Deferred: The Sakia Gunn Film Project

Budget

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Spoken Languages

  • English

Production companies

  • Name: Third World Newsreel

    Production country

Overview

In 2003, Sakia Gunn was fatally stabbed in a gay hate crime in Newark, New Jersey. She was fifteen years old and called herself an Aggressive, an homosexual woman of color who dresses in masculine attire but does not necessarily identify as either lesbian or female-to-male transgender. Dreams Deferred depicts the homophobia that caused her untimely death and questions the lack of national media coverage of the murder of a Black Gay youth.

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