Jim in Bold

The film, titled after a poem by Wheeler, details the abuse he received at the hands of his classmates because of his homosexuality.

It also presents interviews and a cross-nation road-trip with members of Young Gay America, an online teen organization for gays, and compares the teasing and physical abuse Jim suffered to the increasingly open attitudes towards homosexuality six years later when the film was first shown.

The film premiered at the Equality Forum 2003 on May 1 at The Kimmel Center in Philadelphia.

A later showing, held September 28, 2003, at the Pennsylvania State Museum in Harrisburg as a fundraiser for Common Roads, a local gay youth support group, was protested by 10 members of the Westboro Baptist Church, a religious institution well known for their extreme anti-gay views.

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