The Gay Club - LGBTQ Short Film - Best of Fest At Mason 2018 

1:30 excuse me! Did he just try and suggest to her that the Christian club will change her sexuality???

At school the person who sat next to me said “Why are you gay” I responded “ why are you straight

As an older gay activist since 1970, I honour the beautiful young queer souls who continue to make this world a better place. It doesn't get better unless everyone stands up for themselves and each other........ and then it gets FABULOUS!

My school has a equality club but it’s really just a secret LGBT+ (plus allies )hangout that the health teacher has set up,joining this year!!!!

My school has GSA and gender-neutral bathrooms too! We're getting places, people!

At my school we have a "gay" club But now it's just a club for everyone and we talk about actual issues that are important, they call it "stand united" so homophobic family's don't know what it started as. The club is amazing and I'm happy to be part of it.

yo im gay and bored, i just wish there was one of these short films that wasn't so awkward and uncomfortable i just want love story, not a coming of age or coming out story idk just a love story

“ Thank you *J e S u S* ”

I've always wanted a GSA at my school but 1. I don't have any friends :') 2. I have no idea how to start a club and 3. I don't know a single person who would join tbh It's so sad :'))

This is rather different than all the LGBT films out there 👍👍😭 Oh wait....this is a true story?!?!? Wow!!

THIS IS AT MY SCHOOL BECAUSE OF WHAT THOSE PEOPLE DID. HELL YEAH! 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

Last Week I put my head on my girlfriends shoulder in school (which is a normal thing that also normal friends do) and I heard a lot of my school mates that I'm kinda friends with, say really mean and homophobic things just because they know we're together. I mean, if we made out right in front of them I would understand why it bothered them but?????

Instead of something like this, Netflix made 'Tall Girl' - a film about the oh-so-terrible prejudice against a wealthy, white girl whose only real problem is that she's over six feet tall.

I’m going to petition for a gay club I’ll let everyone knows how it goes!! Okay it’s going good so far!

Watching this made me feel so grateful that I go to a diverse safe multicultural school that treats everyone equally. We don't have a GSA but we have something called Acceptance and Alliance which allows anyone to come whenever and just hangout, whether your straight, gay, black, white, Asian etc. Our school has a lot of diversity and I'm forever thankful.

The is strongly emotional and powerful. ❤️ Loving it! Never understood how there can be so little empathy and compassion and so much hate. Among many people who mistakingly call themselves christians...

who gave you the right to make me tear up

This is the most touching and remarkable queer short film I have ever seen. So moved and proud to be in this incredible community. Thank you for the video.❤🌈

This film is so more impactful knowing its a true story. It hurts to see this, but it's so important.

As a young trans masculine student, I struggle to go to school because of Judgement. I wish all schools would start to teach and have supportive LGBT+ groups... it saddens me that I have to be afraid of being myself.

OMG I'M IN TEARS! THIS WAS SO INSPIRING! I'm going to show this to the gay straight alliance at my school to inspire them! We are one of the few clubs who don't show up on the day you meet all your teachers, sign up for clubs, and most importantly meet a few of the others who will be in the club. Our table is always empty. I'm tired of seeing it empty. We need to show that we belong! We are NOT outcasts! We. Are. Human. We sometimes make mistakes. Like everyone who people call "normal"! Well let me tell you this. There is no such thing as "normal"! We are all strange in some way! Let your inner self SHINE THROUGH!

This deserves waaaaayyyyy more views and likes. I freaking loved it that much

me, crying: superb you funky little lesbians

This made me cry so much... So so much. I am a part of the LGBT+ community myself and I can’t describe how this made me feel. I love this short film so much! And I hope that one day that we all can be respected no matter what sexuality we are!

My school has a gay club, I’m in it lol update guys i got a girlfriend (i’m a girl)

I still do not understand why in 2018/19 these films are still being because Americans cannot deal with homosexuality. But then again why are we surprised, the U.S. has still not accepted black people and the civil rights movement. The white people of the USA forget they are not the true American they are not native. Yet the native population are treated as second class citizens. It's time the white American was taught a lesson and the native Americans given back there land an authority to govern there nation let the white people know they are not in control. Move them by force into reservations. The native American are not like but they have every right to be. These ancient people accepted homosexual in there culture thousands of years ago. This goes to show how culturally backward and inept the white men are. The white right-wing fundamental American fear Islam but culturally they are almost identical in the teaching and beliefs systems. They both fear and hate anything different. They both want total control over there people and the live the people live there no room for difference.

I am so goddamn lucky for having gay friends

This was an amazing film, I'm gay and transgender. I sent it to my boyfriend to watch, also my best friends who are lesbian. I'm gonna pass it on, because we need hope. This gives us hope.

So we're just going to ignore the flag on the car

My school has a 'rainbow flag award' for equality and an lgbtq+ club but they are not at all supportive of me- and others- being trans, don't allow us to use the bathrooms we are comfortable in and PE groups are organised by gender where I am listed as a girl (I'm FTM) despite me having countless meetings with them. Hopefully they will become more accepting of trans people in the future :/

My friend in high school started an lgbt club with the friend group we were in at the time, we got pretty far together! We actually managed to become the biggest club in school (in members) so that was fun! It even helped some of us come out, me included! All tho, I haven’t been there in over a year now, so I don’t know how the students now are managing the club... I hope that it’s as big as we left it, or even bigger

My school has a GSA club, a gender neutral bathroom in the front office, and most of the LGBTQ community at our school is open and we rarely get bothered for it. I wore my rainbows throughout the whole school day on the first day of GSA and nobody cared (except the trans teacher aid who wanted to know if there was a special event or something. She ended up coming to GSA, it was great) I wish every school could be like this, and with a little boost from the students and staff, we can make that happen! I will be going to a much larger school next year, and hopefully I can protect my good friends and any other LGBTQ students next year. Love you all!!! Don't let them haters get you down!

Why do they only announce clubs once a month?

❤💛💚💙💜love for all the LGBTQIA+ community!!!!!! Hope your all doing good and I wish you luck on your journey!!!❤💛💚💙💜

I'm surprised this was only in 2016. I really thought this would have been in the 90's or late 80's.

1. I love this so much 2. I SEE THE CLIKKIE

I've always have had GSAs in high school and now college. I never needed or felt like I needed to go there, I always felt comfortable expressing who I am in my public school environment. I always forget that there's toxic communities that hate on LGBT+ for no reason, and I'm lucky to be living where I am where I don't have to be scared to be me. For all the people who live in places like this where you get discriminated all the time, I know you can fight through the hate and show the community there can be love. Keep fighting guys!

Im using a name generator for anonymity purposes I had a friend named Lucy. Lucy had a crush on one of my other friends Sasha. Sasha also loved Lucy. One day Sasha came out to Lucy, and Lucy said she was straight because her parents were homophobic, and she was afraid they would find out, even though she loved Sasha back. Sasha went home. and she almost committed suicide. The next day I convinced Lucy to tell Sasha how she really felt. She did.

Well thanks a lot. I thought i was going to watch a cute little short film about a gay club but, instead, you made me cry

Her: they’re burning rainbow flags Me: why do they have rainbow flags???

Last year my schools GSA and all the GSAs in the area banded together and raised money for a little LGBT+ prom where we could all feel safe and welcomed. It was such a wonderful experience and I'm glad we were able to do something like that and I hope we can do it again next year

Thank you. I wish more high schools had clubs like this, and hopefully, more do than when I went to high school. It would have helped my mental health so much

It's odd how I'm seeing this while awaiting approval from my vice principle for PRISM (an LGBTQ+ related club/support group). We've been waiting for two days, and things move really fast at my school, so I'm concerned that she ignored the e-mail. I've put so much heart and soul into this program, and I want what they have.

I tried to start a GSA but it never happened despite the fact I new tons of kids who would have loved to have that in school

I legit thought that the setting was a hospital I'm so blind.

Those young people are inspiring in standing up for their rights and equality. Good luck to them and may gay clubs in educational institutions thrive everywhere.

hey hey this was published on my birthday and ill take it as the best birthday gift this year. Didnt realize until now. and to the person that stumbled on this comment i want you to have a good day/night.

...this made me cry recently at my school this year, they announced that we had a LGBTQ+ club I'm surprised, and happy at the same time And for everyone who gets hated on for being part of the LGBTQ+ community, stay strong. Someday, all of us will be accepted. also, I love that this only has 45 dislikes, but it should have 0 :/

10:18 ASDJFSK SHE HAD A FPE THING ON HER WALL 😭😭😭 ||-//

What a great short film! My high school didn't have a gsa until the year after I graduated (shoutout to my friend for starting the gsa at my former high school, i was so proud of them). I hope the gsa there is still in existence (since my friend who founded it graduated like 3 or 4 years ago), it's important for people to feel like they have a safe place to be themselves at school. Maybe I wouldn't have waited until after graduating to come out to more than just my closest friends if my school had had a gsa or something.

This is beautiful. I set up and ran the first official GSA at my school for two years. No matter where you go, some people won’t like you and it’s important to have safe spaces like this and a positive outlook.

keep fighting for the safety of all kids gay and straight. being gay is nothing to be ashamed of, hating people simply because they are different is to be ashamed of.

This is what being gay for n Texas is like

Wow I can’t believe this was 1.5 years ago. Powerful story. Congrats, Logan! :D

This deserves more attention! I love this so much! 🏳️‍🌈❤️

Makes me realize how lucky my school is, i’m not personally LGBT but my school has a GSA, gender neutral bathrooms + pe locker room, and a whole lot of pride flags all over (gay, trans, bi mostly). The teachers are really supportive, some students use slurs but in the end, basically all of them don’t actually care and just use it because it’s such common slang now, plus most students are pretty understanding of it. Kids can go around with pride flags in their bags and no one says anything. Sad it’s not like that for every school, but we’re getting somewhere in some places.

I'm a simple girl! I see lgbtq+, i click lqbtq+🌈❤

Wow. Good for all of you for being so brave. It's disgusting to think you and were and are treated that way. You will slowly pave the way tho for change and know you are not alone. ❤🧡💛💚💙💜🤎🖤

I recently moved to a small city in the panhandle of Florida. Most kids here are military kids since there is no other reason to possibly move here. The amount of gay jokes I here is scary, especially since right now there is less than 500 kids in my middle school. When I go to high school I am afraid it is going to get worse. The jokes are going to turn into assault and I am going to snap one day and finally yell at someone for their "funny joke". Luckily, the high school I am going to has a GSA so I may finally have as safe place to be after the hell ride the rest of this year is going to be. I really just want to shove all of the kids who have made a gay joke back to Orlando where I am from and show them how inappropriate it is to say these things. Sadly that is not possible to do. This has given me fear and also strength knowing that there will be people like me who will accept me.

Good film and message.

What a beautiful story and great production too 😊❤ also it is just me or this actress looks like Naomi from Skins? (a little bit)

Well done to all involved

Our school has a GSA (Gender Sexuality Alliance). It is such an amazing thing to have. Every school should have one. This short film was amazing!

Ngl I saw the fpe in the background of her room and teared up

good job to everyone that worked on this!

Yaaay!!!! Amazing video! Step by step we’ll get further. And together will conquer. Is sad, that in 21 century still people who doesn’t RESPECT others. But in GOD WE TRUS🙏🏼 🙏🏼❤️🌈🙏🏼❤️🌈🙏🏼❤️🌈🙏🏼❤️🌈

We have GSA at our school and there's another meeting next week, excited

lmao I'm sorry guys I understand the importance of this but the teacher's hair at 2:28 had me cackling *insert "not to be racist or anything" wheeze*

My school has an alliance club and it’s the reason I learned that being non-binary exists and I was able to come out to my friends and family about it

I cried. Thanks for this.💜

I go to a conservative private Christian school in the south. One of the rules in the student handbook is that if the school finds out that you or a member of your family is part of the lgbtq+ community, then you can legally be kicked out. None of my parents know that I’m pansexual so I can’t tell them that I want to leave. Even if I did find out a way to convince my parents to let me leave, I still live in a conservative community in the Bible Belt and won’t be able to come out until I leave. That’s why only my sister and my best friend know that I’m pan, that my sister is pan and genderqueer, and that my best friend is pan and trans. It hurts me more than words can express that the people that I’m around every day would hate me if they knew who I really was or who my friend and my sister were because I have to listen to the people around me complain about gay people who have never done anything to them and I can’t say anything about it. The world is sick and twisted. I know that my school would never allow it but I think that clubs like this, that expose straight people to our community and support lgbt people, are one way to make this world less horrific, even in the most minuscule way

Hi guys i know I'm gay but I know how u guys felt coz I use to be in school as well but do a course now it gives me and other the comfortableness to be who I am...thanks for the video all that I can say is that the world is a algd place but there will be earthquakes if u guys know what I mean and that when I walk around in public I can feel ok and now worry bout anything and just keep my hope up that this is gonna be alright... Btw we all love ourselves and what bout the straight ppl do they love themselves do they maybe this could help in the future... Note:kinda worried bout this comment but yeah.....

OMG that's so powerful and amazing! Really good job!

this really made my day and i’ve been wanting to feel like myself but i feel like people would judge me, and call me names, but the truth is that i don’t know the real me that much anymore, but i’m gonna try to find me because of this video ❤️❤️

no im not crying-

My school gives us the great opportunity of having a lgbtq+ club but I’m too afraid to attend it as a closeted and still questioning teen... too scared other people outside the club will find out :(

its not only about love,,its life,,where we belong,,where we come from,,,understing,,,belief,,togetherness..trust,,,comfort,,i could go on but the thing is,,,we are here we are loved,,,,enjoy life,,,its short,,and time is clicking,,,thank you logan,,sorry for ranting,,,;)

5:37 "40 shades of hate speech"

I love my gsa so this was really interesting

i was a leader of my school's gsa last year and they barely let us do anything. anytime we put up posters kids/parents ripped them down. and i went to school about 15 minutes outside of downtown atlanta...

I was thinking I should try and start a gay club at my university but then I realized I'm studying art and the art department itself is kinda like a gay club already :')

Be gay. Be proud.

I’m not gay but I’d support anyone who is and their club, especially for my uncle Brian

Have a story no one asked for... The public school I went to before homeschool, was swarming with LGBT ppl and allies. It was great and I was called my true name and never heard my dead name at school (unless the person didn't know). Now that I'm homeschooled, I am surrounded my homophobic and transphobic family and bow I hear my dead name all the time. I created a group chat on discord an messenger for the LGBTQ+ comm. Called "Queer Crew" there, no deadnames are used, no slurs, no harassment (obviously) and it's amazing :>

I almost threw my computer when that dude mentioned Pulse

Beautiful and brilliant done ❤❤❤❤

I read: Since 2016...wtf since 2016🧐 that means since 5 years there is the first gay club in a School and they get backlash from the administration... Keep up the GOOD work, stay strong! There is still a long way to go but keep fighting 💪🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍🌈

And now I'm crying

as a 13 year old lesbian I cried for them cause me and the rest of out community face this kind of prejudice and its not fair

My middle school got a new gas that over 30 kids are attending, best part about it is that it doesn’t need parent signatures

We have a Gay club at my school, we have madea few changes to the school system as a community and we are lucky. We have unisex bathrooms, anyone can wear any uniform items (I live in a place where uniform is normal for all high schools) we have an annual in school pride parade (I think we mightve been the first school to hold an in school parade but I'm not sure) and the teachers respect us and use correct pronouns and names if you tell them to.

In my PE class, we played a certain game, and two guys who were just friends hugged each other and a couple of people screamed “GAY!!!” at the top of their lungs and the substitute didn’t do anything about it. We love homophobia in public schools! 🤮

Also, love the Few, the Proud, and the Emotional poster at the end

This makes me so sad. Our district canceled clubs this year because a club that got banned for being homophobic is suing the district:(

I’m joining the GSA at the high school next year.

7:46 STAR labs!

My school has also a GSA club, but i love my principal because he purposely says the word gay everyday in the announcements :)

Im only 2 minutes (specifically 2:28 ) and i already love John

this is powerful

"I didn't see anything, except for someone talking *SHIT*"