{"id":8322,"date":"2015-06-20T07:00:04","date_gmt":"2015-06-20T12:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/?p=8322"},"modified":"2015-06-20T13:59:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-20T18:59:48","slug":"brooksfunddoc","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.wnpt.org\/mediaupdate\/2015\/06\/20\/brooksfunddoc\/","title":{"rendered":"Brooks Fund History Project Documentary Airs on NPT"},"content":{"rendered":"

A Secret Only God Knows, <\/strong>a documentary produced to mark the 20th anniversary of the Brooks Fund of the Community Foundation of Middle Tennessee, premieres Thursday, June 25, at 9:30 p.m. on NPT.<\/p>\n

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The 30-minute documentary grew out of the Brooks Fund History Project, a multimedia documentation of the lives and experiences of Middle Tennessee’s LGBT community. To that end, a series of interviews were filmed between 2009 and 2012 and are now available for viewing in an archive housed in the Nashville Public Library\u2019s Special Collections department. Transcripts of those interviews and nearly 800 photographs, letters and other memorabilia donated by the participants are also found in the archive.<\/p>\n

In A Secret Only God Knows,<\/strong> interviewees discuss coming of age in an era when homosexuality and transgender issues were not discussed. \u201cWe just didn\u2019t talk about it,\u201d is a common refrain in the pieces. \u201cWe\u2019re talking about people who, at the time we started interviewing, were at least 70 years old,\u201d said local documentarian Deidre Duker, \u201cso imagine all of the changes that they have witnessed with regard to civil rights or openness around homosexuality or transgender.\u201d Duker, along with producer Phil Bell, conducted the interviews.<\/p>\n

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