Documentary on gay bar incident to premier Thursday in Fort Worth
FORT WORTH -- Robert L. Camina wasn't at the Rainbow Lounge in the early morning hours of June 28, 2009, when police and state agents converged on the Fort Worth gay bar but, like many others, read about it hours later on Facebook.
"I had to read the posts a number of times just to make sure I really understood what was going on. It just seemed so absurd. ... These stories of just shock and trauma were being posted online," said Camina, a Dallas filmmaker.
"An instinct told me, I don't know what's going on, but I need to capture this on camera."
Camina began shooting footage that day, first at a Million Gay March rally being held in Dallas in honor of the 40th anniversary of New York's Stonewall Riots, considered a touchstone in the gay-rights movement, and later at the bar and protests outside the Tarrant County courthouse.
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"I really wanted to showcase Sara and everything she did to help us get beyond what was a negative incident and move all of us forward -- both the critics, the supporters, police officers, people that were going to volunteer for training," Halstead said. "I'm glad Robert asked us to sit down and talked to us because there was a lot of miscommunication early on -- some intentional by people who didn't care for us and some that wasn't intentional that was totally innocent. I'm glad we had a time where I could clear the air over what was said and what really wasn't."
Police Chief Jeff Halstead is one reason things have changed.
