AaronHarcourt

Today, in a culture that has made great progression to forming an inclusive society with equal rights for all, homosexuality is still suppressed and a highly debated topic within Christianity. This documentary explores the lives of a few gay Christian’s, all of who live in London. Each of their stories is very different from the next but what they all share in common is the prejudice they faced both inside and outside the church body, ignorance and the difficult journey they have taken to finding acceptance and inner peace and at the same time a deeper relationship with Christ.

Over the past year and a half I have been documenting my family as an on-going project. My sister, Chaya, is a single mother who has two children, her three year old daughter Lily and her 16 month old son, Hayden. Chaya is twenty two and has suffered from depression since the age of sixteen as well as the disease of addiction, making it much more challenging as a mother. Because of on going mental health issues Chaya had her children put in the care of the Children's Aid Society (CAS) in the fall of 2011. Lily was put in the care of Chaya's mother Terry and Hayden was put into a foster home. Chaya's visitation rights are greatly limited and supervised at a visitation centre with Hayden and at her mother's home with Lily. In Chaya's journey to get custody of her children and to see her well-being, she went through a strict 24 day program at 'Hope Place', with other women who struggle with what is termed as the 'disease of addiction'. There has been great growth and change in Chaya's life since the program. Lily still remains in the care of Terry and Hayden is currently in...

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