Back in March, Q-Notes featured a piece about a new film project in Wilmington, N.C., documenting an 18-year-old murder many have said is a hate crime.
The film project got some mainstream press cred over the holiday break.
From The Wilmington Star News:
A brutal 18-year-old murder drew new attention in 2008.
In February, St. Jude’s Metropolitan Community Church held a memorial service for Talana Quay Kreeger, who had been raped, beaten, disemboweled and left to bleed to death in a scrubby field early in the morning of Feb. 22, 1990, near the intersection of Carolina Beach Road and Shipyard Boulevard. A centerpiece of the program was a preview of “Park View,” a documentary-in-progress by Thomas A. “Tab” Ballis.
Ballis, a licensed clinical social worker in Wilmington, argued that Kreeger’s killing was a hate crime, motivated in part because Kreeger was a lesbian. He and other supporters maintain her death was one of a number of homicides of gays and lesbians during the 1980s in Southeastern North Carolina, targeted for their sexuality.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:44 am
Mr. Comer, We at Trends In Hate applaud Mr. Ballis’ film project, hoping it will increase awareness to sexual orientation-based hate crimes and their brutality. At our This Date In Hate calendar (the February 22 page) we document this horrific crime. Thank your for bringing Mr. Ballis’ film project the attention it deserves.
August 31st, 2009 at 5:45 am
Mr. Comer, We at Trends In Hate applaud Mr. Ballis’ film project, hoping it will increase awareness to sexual orientation-based hate crimes and their brutality. At our This Date In Hate calendar (the February 22 page) we document this horrific crime. Thank you for bringing Mr. Ballis’ film project the attention it deserves.