Murder Shown In Film


The film tells of a young man named Scotty (I believe), who was murdered by three teenagers, one of them a girl, in a place called Bay Minette (Is that correct?). His mother and some others who knew him were interviewed. Whatever was the outcome of all that? The film never reveals if the killers were sentenced to prison, though we do have a shot of the killers being led to trial. Is there anyone who can tell me how all of that concluded. And where is Bay Minette? The only Bay Minette I could locate is in Alabama, but I don't think that's the place mentioned in this film.

I found this film tremendously educational. America needs to know that there are still places in this country where life for gays and lesbians is diffcult and dangerous. Yet this film shows the courage these people have to create a place for themselves, a community, a sense of family.

When I was out and about as a young gay guy in the 60s and 70s in the Stroudsburg and Wilkes-Barre, PA areas, I went to a rural gay bar, the first in the Stroudsburg area. And we gay guys always had to travel to get to gay bars. After it opened in the mid-1960's, a local Interstate 80 rest stop between Tannersville and Bartonsville, PA actually served as a sort of community center that allowed gay men in Monroe Couty to meet each other for the first time. This led to the formation of the area's first gay bar. The situation for gays and lesbians in Monroe and Luzerne County PA is much different and better now, but my experience 30-40 ago allowed me to empathize with the situation shown here.

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The two males have been sentenced to life and the female, who didn't participate in the actual killing, was sentenced to 20 years.

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BTW, it was the Bay Minette in Alabama. The filmmakers never made that clear, I think for the purpose of making MS look even worse. I have lived in Southern Mississippi all my life, except for a few months spent in the Mississippi Delta, and there has never been a case like that here, as far as media attention goes. It saddens me that the filmmaker used sketchy editing to put together two unrelated stories.

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