Documentary About Fred Karger, First Gay Presidential Candidate, Hits YouTube
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- On Top Magazine Staff
- | June 07, 2016
A one-hour documentary about Fred Karger's historic 2012 run for the White House was released Tuesday on YouTube.
The film, titled FRED, premiere on July 14, 2014 at the Sundance Sunset 5 Theater in Hollywood.
Karger is an openly gay activist who was best known before his presidential campaign as the founder of Californians Against Hate, which led boycotts against major backers of Proposition 8, California's now-defunct constitutional amendment which excluded gay and lesbian couples from marriage.
He also targeted the National Organization for Marriage (NOM), which works to undermine the Supreme Court's June 2015 finding that gay couples have a constitutional right to marry, and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (the Mormons), filing formal complaints with state election officials in California and Maine against both groups.
Filmmaker John Fitzgerald Keitel traveled with Karger for over two years as he campaigned for the White House as an Independent Republican to produce FRED.