Jim in Bold
- 2003 (2003)
Jim in Bold is a documentary about Jim Wheeler, a gay high school student in Lebanon, Pennsylvania, who died by suicide in 1997 because of constant harassment at school.[1] The film was created by the Equality Forum and directed by Glenn Holsten. The original music was composed by Michael Aharon.
Synopsis
The film, titled after a poem by Wheeler, details the abuse he received at the hands of his classmates because of his homosexuality. It also presents interviews and a cross-nation road-trip with members of Young Gay America, an online teen organization for gays, and compares the teasing and physical abuse Jim suffered to the increasingly open attitudes towards homosexuality six years later when the film was first shown.
Screenings and reactions
The film premiered at the Equality Forum 2003 on May 1 at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. A later showing, held September 28, 2003, at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg as a fundraiser for Common Roads, a local gay youth support group, was protested by 10 members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a religious institution well known for their extreme anti-gay views.[2] Because they announced their intention to protest in advance, they were overwhelmed by over 800 counter-protesters who declared the day "Unity Day". The counter-protest was organized by the Pride Festival of Central Pennsylvania led by community organizer Reynaldo Lacaba.
References
External links
- Jim in Bold official website
- Jim in Bold at IMDb
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- Abusive supervision
- Cyberbullying
- Disability bullying
- Displaced aggression
- Doxing
- LGBT bullying
- Hazing
- Military bullying
- Mobbing
- Parental bullying of children
- Peer victimization
- Prison bullying
- Rank
- Relational aggression
- School bullying
- Sexual bullying
- Workplace harassment
- Workplace bullying
- Toxic workplace
- Betrayal
- Blacklisting
- Bullying and emotional intelligence
- Cancel culture
- Character assassination
- Coercion
- Culture of fear
- Defamation
- Destabilisation
- Discrediting
- Embarrassment
- False accusation
- Gaslighting
- Gossip
- Harassment
- Humiliation
- Incivility
- Intimidation
- Isolation
- Kiss up kick down
- Mind games
- Moving the goalposts
- Nagging
- Name calling
- Personal attacks
- Physical abuse
- Psychological abuse
- Rudeness
- Sarcasm
- Screaming
- Shame
- Smear campaign
- Social exclusion
- Social undermining
- Swatting
- Taunting
- Workplace incivility
- Verbal abuse
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Activists |
(List)
- William Arthur Gibbs (1877)
- Kelly Yeomans (1997)
- Hamed Nastoh (2000)
- Dawn-Marie Wesley (2000)
- Nicola Ann Raphael (2001)
- Ryan Halligan (2003)
- Megan Meier (2006)
- Sladjana Vidovic (2008)
- Phoebe Prince (2010)
- Tyler Clementi (2010)
- Jamey Rodemeyer (2011)
- Jamie Hubley (2011)
- Kenneth Weishuhn (2012)
- Audrie Pott (2012)
- Amanda Todd (2012)
- Jadin Bell (2013)
- Rehtaeh Parsons (2013)
- Rebecca Sedwick (2013)
- Leelah Alcorn (2014)
- Conrad Roy (2014)
- Tyrone Unsworth (2016)
(incidents)
- Emotional blackmail
- Just-world hypothesis
- List of LGBT-related suicides
- Machiavellianism in the workplace
- Narcissism in the workplace
- Personal boundaries
- Personality disorders
- Playing the victim
- Psychopathy in the workplace
- Scapegoating
- Self-esteem
- Social dominance orientation
- Suicide among LGBT youth
- Victim blaming
- Victimisation
- Victimology
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