Dan Goldes

A San Francisco activist puts her body on the line for causes she believes in.

Shot and edited on June 26, 2015, following the U.S. Supreme Court’s historic ruling on marriage equality, this documentary combines portions of President Barack Obama’s speech about the ruling with video of the reaction on Castro Street in San Francisco.

A short documentary about the impact of pejorative language on HIV-positive gay men. Listings on gay dating sites increasingly specify that the poster is 'clean' or 'disease-free' and requests of his potential matches, 'u b 2'. Of course, people are free to specify anything that's important to them, but how does the choice of these words impact the positive men who read them? What image does it give of our community? Do words matter?