Film Screening: The Abominable Crime
Date and time
Location
Rome Auditorium, Johns Hopkins SAIS,
The Benjamin T. Rome Building
1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW
Washington 20036, DC 20036
Description
The Center for Transatlantic Relations and the Pulitzer Center as part of the Geopolitics of LGBT Rights Forum Series
cordially invite you to a film screening of
The Abominable Crime
Wednesday, July 15, 2015
5:30 pm – 7:00 pm
Rome Auditorium, Johns Hopkins SAIS,
The Benjamin T. Rome Building,
1619 Massachusetts Avenue NW,
Washington, DC 20036
The screening of The Abominable Crime, a documentary, is part of the Geopolitics of LGBT Rights Forum Series being held over the course of 2015 by the Center for Transatlantic Relations at Johns Hopkins SAIS.
The Abominable Crime is a Pulitzer Center supported, award-winning documentary produced by Micah Fink that explores the culture of homophobia in Jamaica through the eyes of gay Jamaicans who are forced to choose between their homeland and their lives after their sexual orientations are exposed.
A Q&A with the filmmaker Micah Fink and an activist and film subject Maurice Tomlinson will follow the screening.
"The issues dealt with by The Abominable Crime are not just relevant to Jamaica, in which the film is set, but also internationally where laws are being enacted in many countries to inflict the most inhumane and violent penalties on same sex relationships."
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL HUMAN RIGHTS PRIZE.
For more details about LGBT issues at CTR and this event, please visit the webpage.
