Sundance 2009 Boycott: Park City to Suffer?
Jay Hamburger reports in The Park Record:
"Mayor Dana Williams acknowledges he is ‘certainly concerned’ with the prospects of a boycott of Utah by gays and their allies, saying Park City could suffer even though the city had little to do with the gay-marriage ballot measure in California.
"Park City has a tradition of acceptance of gays, he says, but the city could be swept up in a movement by gays against Utah based on Proposition 8. Williams says gays are welcome in Park City."
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"’It’s too bad that we could potentially take the brunt of an issue we didn’t participate in,’ Williams says, adding he is worried about the effects on the ski season and the Sundance Film Festival."
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"A festival official recently told The Park Record Sundance has received phone calls and emails from people wanting the festival to abandon the Holiday Village screening rooms. The people tie Cinemark Theaters to the ballot measure. Sundance plans to continue showing films at Holiday Village."
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Hamburger adds that "the Mormon influence in Park City through the city’s history has been limited compared to the role the church has played in other Utah communities" because Park City was founded by silver miners, and the region’s mines attracted workers from various parts of the world. More recently, Californians, New Yorkers, and others have been moving into the area.
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I wrote a blog post 12 days ago titled “Boycotting the Sundance Film Festival is Stupid and Lazy” and sure haven’t changed my mind since then!
There are so many more effective actions we can take to enlighten Americans about the civil rights denied to LGBTQ people.
JoinTheImpact.com – the folks who got a hundred thousand people marching for equality on November 15th already have three events planned before the end of the year.
Of course, getting involved at that grassroots level requires more time and energy than posting ignorant diatribes about Sundance on the ‘Net.
All the best,
Mark
Misguided is another word…