The Liam Foundation and Rockford Public Li brary presents Pride Month Movies! Join us for brief discussion after the film viewing.
\nMovie Summary: \;Imagine yourself 18 years old w andering city streets without a place to go to sleep or eat or shelter fro m the cold. Imagine you&rsquo\;re homeless because your parents kicked you out when they discovered you are gay or transgender. This is the subject of A Road to Home\, which follows 6 LGBT youth through New York City as th ey learn to survive in the streets\, then struggle to find beds\, jobs\, a nd some sense of purpose and direction for their lives. Four have grown up in poverty\, two not. Five are people of color\, one not. All have been r ejected. Their lives typify the experience of the 500\,000 homeless youth on American streets every night\, 40% of them LGBT. In the course of their journeys\, four of the characters in A Road to Home get aid from the Ali Forney Center\, a program devoted solely to homeless LGBTQ youth. The stru ggle of its founder Carl Siciliano to keep its programs alive mirrors the journeys of the kids themselves. What the film reveals is not only the dan gers\, the fears\, the lonely anxiety of being homeless\, but also the res ulting wounds to the heart that must be healed. The 6 characters in this f ilm are determined that their current traumas will not define them for the rest of their lives.
\nRunning time: 1hr 33min
\nThis movie t itle was selected by Board Members from our local LGBTQ+ resource center\, The Liam Foundation. \;https://theliamfoundation.org/
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