Screening: Outrage
From Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Kirby Dick (This Film Is Not Yet Rated) comes OUTRAGE, featuring journalist/blogger Michael Rogers and Sirus/XM radio host Michelangelo Signorile. The film is an indictment of closeted politicians who campaign against the LGBT community and reveals the hidden lives of some of the nation's most powerful policymakers. OUTRAGE looks at the harm they inflict and profiles those who seek to expose their hypocrisy. The film probes the psychology of these double lives, the ethics of outing, and the double standards that the media upholds in its coverage of the sex lives of gay public figures. A Q&A with Rogers and Signorile will follow the screening.
Michael Rogers is the director of the National Blogger Initiative and a media fellow at the New Organizing Institute where he develops blogger and citizen journalism programs. Rogers blogs at BlogActive and is the lead subject of OUTRAGE, a documentary inspired by his work. Rogers is the executive editor of PageOneQ and director of business development for RawStory. He is a former development director of the Harvey Milk School, The National Gay and Lesbian Task Force, and was major gifts director at Greenpeace. Rogers has appeared MSNBC and CNN and has been profiled by the New York Times, GQ, and Washington Post.
Sirius XM Radio host Michelangelo Signorile co-founded Outweek, a New York based weekly in which he became known for reporting the truth on closeted public figures, including publishing tycoon Malcolm Forbes. He has served as a columnist and editor for The Advocate and, in 1993, wrote the groundbreaking book, Queer in America: Sex, the Media, and the Closets of Power. Signorile has written for The New York Times, the Village Voice and Newsweek. He has appeared on Good Morning America, Today, Larry King Live, AC 360 and other shows. He blogs daily and posts clips from his radio show on Signorile.com.
