BAI Community Action Alliance is fully invested in training and educating LGBT and non-LGBT community members to purposefully address the ideological issues which especially threaten the young people of the Gulf Coast on a daily basis.

Among other things, for us, this means providing the InView series as an educational forum. This forum focuses on issues of discrimination of all sorts, and especially discrimination and hate based on sex, sexuality, and gender diversity—especially as these prejudices manifest themselves in violence and identity-determined discrimination. The sequenced films, along with the attendant before-talk and the roundtable discussion following each screening, demonstrate how and why the LGBT population and its allies must understand this work as civil rights activism by providing information about civil rights activism in general and about homophobia in particular.

InView tells the stories and the histories of social upheaval brought on by xenophobia of all sorts, especially those based on sex, sexuality, and gender diversity. The series is explicit in recognizing that homophobia, misogyny, racism, and “sexism” of all sorts are related in important ways, and the film sequencing has been devised especially to demonstrate those connections. The InView film series aims to correct general misunderstandings about LGBTQI life within the life of the community. The objective, then, is to educate activists—perhaps most especially the local LGBT population itself, a population which remains surprisingly unaware of the history of its own movement—and all stakeholders about our ultimate vision of “eradicating homophobia and the culture of silence that allows it” in the Gulf states region.

By producing InView each month, we hope to encourage productive dialogue about sexual difference and gay, lesbian, and transgendered life as normal aspects of human sexuality. InView proposes prepare community members to intervene in the “culture of silence” which allows homophobia to go unchecked, perhaps especially in the southern states.

InView Films: July 2007 – December 2008
InView Films: January 2009 – December 2009