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  • Groundspark, creator of a number of educational films on preventing school bias and celebrating family diversity, will soon premier "Straightlaced," a new film encouraging teens to question their assumptions about gender roles and homophobia.

    Isobel White: Prop. 8 and our schools -- time to tell it like it is. 2009

  • Gender queries: "Straightlaced," Bay Area filmmaker Debra Chasnoff's new doc on high schoolers, world premieres at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts Jan. 14.

    SF360 2009

  • Chasnoff, who won an Academy Award for her short documentary "Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment" in 1991, spent two years interviewing hundreds of teenagers for "Straightlaced," many in Northern California high schools.

    PageOneQ.com Latest 2009

  • "Straightlaced" A film with unscripted high school youth from around the country speaking candidly about harmful pressures caused by rigid gender roles and homophobia at 7 p.m. at Grand Lake Theater, 3200 Grand Ave. Oakland.

    The Berkeley Daily Planet, The East Bay's Independent Newspaper 2009

  • Debra Chasnoff goes back to school with "Straightlaced"

    SF360 2009

  • Straightlaced and geeky little museum curators would get into fistfights over that painting.

    Fatal Circle Linda Robertson 2010

  • Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up (2009) lets teens talk about whether or not they agree with the gender roles assumed by previous generations.

    George Heymont: You've Got Homework! (VIDEOS) 2010

  • Straightlaced: How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up (2009) lets teens talk about whether or not they agree with the gender roles assumed by previous generations.

    George Heymont: You've Got Homework! (VIDEOS) 2010

  • Whether the topic is bullying in middle school (Let's Get Real), family diversity in elementary school (That's A Family!), or how high school students navigate the barrage of gender-based pressures (Straightlaced -- How Gender's Got Us All Tied Up, our current new release), student after student has jumped at the opportunity to tell me about their experiences with anti-gay harassment.

    Debra Chasnoff: 'Getting Real' About Bullying-Related Suicides 2009

  • We began screening Straightlaced in classrooms with profound results.

    Debra Chasnoff: Break the Silence on Bullying 2009

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