The Gay Word documentary premiere screening + Q&A with producer
<p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Doors open 17.00, film starts at 17.30 (run time 50 minutes)</span></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The documentary will be followed by a Q&A with the producer, <a href="https://twitter.com/AmyAshenden">Amy Ashenden</a>, and Stonewall's <a href="https://twitter.com/matthewhorwood">Matthew Horwood</a>. There will also be a bar open til 22.00 with drinks and refreshments. Arrive early for the best seats!</span></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Nearest tube: Seven Sisters</span></span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, 5 min walk (take the High Road exit and continue towards Tesco, just past Haringey college bear left onto Town Hall Approach Road and the Bernie Grant Arts Centre is on your left).</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-weight: bold;"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Gay Word trailer: https://youtu.be/cItd4S0L4ug</span></span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Gay Word</span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> is a documentary about the recent trend of saying the word ‘gay’ negatively to mean rubbish, uncool, or embarrassing. Amy Ashenden travels around the South East of England to find out why some people have started to say 'eurgh that's gay'. Is it homophobic or has language evolved?</span></p> <p style="line-height: 1.38; margin: 0pt 0px 10pt; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;" dir="ltr"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Amy Ashenden asks gay and straight people, young and old, why it makes certain people deeply offended and others less phased. At Stonewall’s HQ in the city centre of London, Amy speaks to the largest gay rights organisation in Europe, which is campaigning against the word ‘gay’ being used negatively, and travels to meet the university academic who claims it’s harmless. She also speaks to teachers, parents, a LGBT+ activist, a transgender male, and young people still in school to find out where the trend of saying “that’s so gay” negatively comes from, and if it should be stopped.</span></p> <p style="line-height: normal; margin: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 8px; color: #666666; font-size: 13.1999998092651px; letter-spacing: 0.5px;"><span id="docs-internal-guid-63f39656-36d8-26bc-92bf-2d8d3648f5c3"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Amy Ashenden is a BA French and Spanish graduate from the University of Southampton. She freelances for the </span><a style="color: #0f90ba; text-decoration: none;" href="http://www.theguardian.com/profile/amy-ashenden" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #999999; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Guardian</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, is the former editor of the Guardian Student Website of the Year 2013, </span><a style="color: #0f90ba; text-decoration: none;" href="http://studentjournals.co.uk/" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #999999; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">The Student Journals</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">, and has previously produced </span><a style="color: #0f90ba; text-decoration: none;" href="https://youtu.be/eRSVbNcHjJc" rel="nofollow"><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #999999; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">Working for Nothing</span></a><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; font-style: italic; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;"> - </span><span style="font-size: 14.6666666666667px; font-family: Arial; color: #333333; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: pre-wrap; background-color: transparent;">a documentary about unpaid internships in the UK, which featured an interview with the leader of the Green Party, Natalie Bennett.</span></span></p>