Rumpus Debut: Interview with ‘Right To Love’ Filmmaker

Last year, I interviewed Cassie Jaye, the twenty-something phenom who travelled around America, talking with participants of the religious ceremony Purity Balls. This ill-name-fated event culminates when girls ages six to sixteen pledge their virginity to the fathers until marriage.  Cannes Film Fest gifted Daddy I Do with the Best Documentary Award.

Well, fast forward to 2012, and Jaye and her production team (her supportive family, in fact) have a new doc out, The Right To Love: An American Family, which explores the framework of the American Dream, to include LGBT families and pink picket fences. The traditional model is being obliterated – or better yet – expanded upon. {Love is love, I’ve always liked to say!}

Please read my interview with Jaye, and watch the trailer below. This is my debut in the cutting-edge literary zine The Rumpus. (I’m freaking over the moon to be included in a publication that regularly places Jerry Stahl’s work. 1 degree of separation to my new literary hero.)

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XOX Thanks as always for the support!
your girl forever, Darrah