Scout's Honor

This extremely high quality and deservedly award-winning documentary gets to the human heart of what it means to be honest and moral - whether you are gay or heterosexual. We see the real damage done by persistent closed-minded community attitudes, but we also see the huge amount of good that can be done by those with the guts to stand up and be counted as demanding equity for all. The Boy Scouts is shown in a very good light for its potential to bring out the best in youth and to instill a life long interest in enjoying nature and helping others.

It's the compassion and sincerity of the contributors which makes Scout's Honor so emotive and empowering. Young Steve Cozza also gives us many matter of fact insights to the OK-ness of being gay (all the more relevant because they're spoken by a self-confident heterosexual).

Luckily the Boy Scouts of Australia do not share the USA branch's fear of homosexuality - we hope that enough Americans are inspired and empowered by Scout's Honor to demand speedy inclusive reform at home.

With all the bad news in the world and all the horror stories you see and hear about this generation being mostly a lost cause, getting the full story on a young man like Steven Cozza does the heart good...I feel, after seeing this, that there might be hope for us yet as a species...Even with all the horrible things that happened to James Dale and the people that came before Steven, not to mention those who supported him - some good still came of all the negative things that happened, and the best things are (hopefully) yet to come. It will take a little more time, but we WILL get there.

A must-see if there ever was one!

I have much gratitude for the film and the people that are chronicled in it for inspiring me to stand up for what I believe in. My life changed while seeing this film, through most of which I was brought to tears.