Love Exiled

Aug 21, 2010

0h 11m

★ 5.6

True Expatriate Love

Overview

On November 4th, 2008, three states - California, Florida and Arizona - voted to amend their constitutions, denying and revoking the rights of same-sex couples to marry. On May 26, 2009, with Canadian allies, gay American families rally at a Vancouver demonstration to protest these amendments that persecute the LGBTQ community. Demonstration organizer Roger Chin relays the California Supreme Court's infamous decision on Prop 8. Subsequent speakers talk about couples living in exile. Weaving elements of public protest and intimate interviews, four families share their stories of how they met, their decision to escape to freedom in Canada, their Canadian experience and their dreams of returning to their home country, family and friends. In the end, the organizer celebrates the freedoms to marry that exists in Canada.

Genres

Documentary

Production Companies

Picturesque Pictures

Love Exiled Trailers

Cast

himself - protest organizer

Roger Chin

himself - protest speaker

Carl Meadows

himself - love exile

Donald Lim

himself - love exile

Steven Rowe

himself - love exile

Michael Smith

himself - love exile

Paul Holzapfel

Self - love exile

Terry Frost

herself - love exile

Kenzie Frost

herself - love exile

Catherine Frost

himself - love exile

Richard Dalton

himself - love exile

Luis Grisales

himself - filmmaker

Jim VanDeventer

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