It's a documentary film about Jay and Bryan leffew; two gay couple who live in California and had adopted two children; Daniel and Selena. They lived a private life until after Prop 8 has passed in California and they started making Youtube videos to show the world that they are just a family like everyone else and that prop 8 is a unconstitutional, bigoted, and harmful proposition. It shows them as a loving family that they really are, it also shows people who are homophobic who spread hateful and fearful lies, trying to make gay people out to be some evil, diabolical monsters or some claptrap. There are parts in the film that touched a topic about bullying, suicide, acceptance, understanding of LGBT community, and more. I've laughed, cried, and I felt anger towards the homophobic liars like Maggie Gallagher. This is a film that I not only strongly recommend, but I strongly want everyone to see and understand the facts and reality, not the bigoted lies like National Organization for Marriage and other homophobic groups wants us to believe. I even had a great pleasure of meeting the Leffew Family in person. They are wonderful people and they are truly a family.
2 Reviews
So glad I got to see it
SillyGayBoy29 May 2024
Warning: Spoilers
I heard of this many years ago and wasn't sure if it released. I looked for it one day when I was curious and I am glad that I did.
Have always loved that they wanted their representation on youtube to show what it looked like to have two daddies, and now if we want we can also follow their story as a family plus looking into how prop 8 changed lives in California.
I was really interested in everything with the Leffew family, not just because I know of them and their youtube channel, but also because it was just more interesting than some of the other stuff shown. We see quite a bit from Bryan's family. His dad seems to have a way to go with gay acceptance, and his brother is learning but slowly. Unfortunately he did vote against same sex marriage when he had the chance to vote for his brother to have a marriage. We get to see some of this family dynamic after Bryan says he has had a number of arguments over this issue. Makes me wish I talked to my own family about this, but I never did while we had that vote.
The second half of the movie shows some news reports, some were interesting. Some of the stuff about the suicides is troubling for those of us who were harassed for being gay. It's not too bad but some of us like a trigger warning for that stuff. It will reference suicide and bullying a bit but it could be worse. To me this wasn't really about that and it starts to deviate into sort of a weird mood by the end.
Bryan seems like such a sweet sensitive guy and I'm glad we got to see what that was like as a man. Also Jay points out that people think that it's about children getting a mommy and a daddy, but really it's more like they get two daddies or they get no mom or no dad. There are too many to adopt and not enough people adopting. It isn't as black and white an issue with equal rights as people might think that it is.
Glad the movie is available to watch. I watch their stuff and never really knew when it released.
Well done and really glad to see a new side to everything. Love David.
Have always loved that they wanted their representation on youtube to show what it looked like to have two daddies, and now if we want we can also follow their story as a family plus looking into how prop 8 changed lives in California.
I was really interested in everything with the Leffew family, not just because I know of them and their youtube channel, but also because it was just more interesting than some of the other stuff shown. We see quite a bit from Bryan's family. His dad seems to have a way to go with gay acceptance, and his brother is learning but slowly. Unfortunately he did vote against same sex marriage when he had the chance to vote for his brother to have a marriage. We get to see some of this family dynamic after Bryan says he has had a number of arguments over this issue. Makes me wish I talked to my own family about this, but I never did while we had that vote.
The second half of the movie shows some news reports, some were interesting. Some of the stuff about the suicides is troubling for those of us who were harassed for being gay. It's not too bad but some of us like a trigger warning for that stuff. It will reference suicide and bullying a bit but it could be worse. To me this wasn't really about that and it starts to deviate into sort of a weird mood by the end.
Bryan seems like such a sweet sensitive guy and I'm glad we got to see what that was like as a man. Also Jay points out that people think that it's about children getting a mommy and a daddy, but really it's more like they get two daddies or they get no mom or no dad. There are too many to adopt and not enough people adopting. It isn't as black and white an issue with equal rights as people might think that it is.
Glad the movie is available to watch. I watch their stuff and never really knew when it released.
Well done and really glad to see a new side to everything. Love David.
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