we two boys together clinging

Film Maker
McKinney, Glendon
Year
2006
Country
Canada
Language
Format
Super 8
Length
3
Genre
experimental, queer
Category
LGBTQ, Politics + Policy

“we two boys together clinging” juxtaposes Elsie Wayne’s tirade in Parliament against gay marriage, with her repetitious, assumptive use of “we,” to Walt Whitman’s poem in which the personal is the political: “no law less than ourselves owning”, to question the interface of the law, personal freedom and moral judgement.

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