Anything Goes : Need a bit of footage from a gay wedding video by Judy Klass

Judy Klass

Need a bit of footage from a gay wedding video

A film-maker and I are making a video for an ironic song of mine which makes fun of bigotry the way that Randy Newman's song "Short People" did back in the 1970s. The song is called "Left-Handed People" and I play a paranoid woman hiding in her basement who has a terror of left-handed people, they just ain't right, she sings ... and we are inter-cutting various kinds of emblems of bigotry against various persecuted groups, but also pictures of groups fighting back against bigotry ... and one of the things the song is a metaphor for is homophobia. The bridge of the song goes "They got no right to be carefree and gay/They're unnatural, it's impossible God made them that way." We wanted to use footage from two gay weddings that my co-director/cinematographer shot: two women getting married and two men getting married. The women gave permission. The men have not. So, what we would like in order to complete the video is footage of two guys getting married, maybe cutting the cake and feeding cake to each other (that was the footage we wanted to use from the one we didn't get permission on) and we would edit it in to that part of the video. It is a progressive, left-leaning, civil rights-endorsing video being made in an age of Trump when the right to marry could be on the line (with a Trump/Pence ticket and the kinds of Supreme Court justices they would choose), so if someone is willing to share footage from their beautiful wedding for a good cause -- please let me know!

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