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New Documentary Looks at Terrors Facing LGBTQ Community

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Oscar-nominated director David France has been at the helm of some of the most noted LGBTQ-themed documentaries ever made. His “How To Survive a Plague” looked at the AIDS crisis, and his “The Death and Life of Marsha P.

Johnson” chronicled the late trans activist. France’s latest film—“Welcome to Chechnya,” which debuted at Sundance earlier this year and is now airing on HBO—is a powerful examination of the thousands of LGBTQ individuals dealing with the anti-gay leadership of the southern Russian republic of Chechnya.

France was stunned when he first heard about the area’s queer purge, even moreso when he read a 2017 The New Yorker article written by Masha Gessen. “It’s ongoing, a fundamental campaign to round up and liquidate every LGBTQ

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