The ACLU of Wisconsin is a Community Co-Presenter in this LGBT Film Festival Entry.
One night in August 2006, a group of young African American lesbian friends are harassed in a gay friendly neighborhood of New York City. They defend themselves; a fight ensues. Charged with gang assault and sensationalized as a “Lesbian Wolfpack” in the mainstream media, four of the women begin an emotional and psychological battle as they claim self-defense. This powerful documentary about the “New Jersey Four” is an impressively thorough bulletin of advocacy, laying bare the blindly preju-dicial reflexes of the structures of power and making clear the struggles for agency – the struggles of just walking down the street – that continue to challenge women and people of color. Angela Davis testifies here. “You either assent to the homophobia of everyday culture or you figure out a way to speak out, to resist.”
