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Main Title Freeheld /
Other Authors
Author Title of a Work
Wade, Cynthia
Roth, Vanessa.
Syrett, Matthew.
Publisher Lieutenant Films,
Year Published 2007
OCLC Number 256043322
Subjects Domestic partner benefits--New Jersey--Freehold (Township) ; Lesbians--Employment--New Jersey--Freehold (Township) ; Policewomen--New Jersey--Freehold (Township) ; Cancer--Patients--New Jersey--Freehold (Township)
Additional Subjects Hester, Laurel,--1956-2006
Holdings
Library Call Number Additional Info Location Last
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Status
EJAM LGBTQ HD6285.5.U6 F73 2007 Region 3 Library/Philadelphia, PA 04/07/2022
Collation 1 videodisc (38 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Notes
Special features: Includes the entire OscarĀ® winning film, as well as 100 additional minutes of never-before-seen footage, including: Oscar Day: Behind the Scenes, The Making of Freeheld, Laurel and Stacie's Video Diary, Laurel's Childhood, Communities Respond to Freeheld.
Contents Notes
Detective Lieutenant Laurel Hester spent 25 years investigating tough cases in Ocean County, New Jersey, protecting the rights of victims and putting her life on the line. She had no reason to expect that in the last year of her life, after she was diagnosed with terminal cancer, that her final battle for justice would be for the woman she loved. The film chronicles Laurel's struggle to transfer her earned pension to her domestic partner, Stacie Andree. With less than six months to live, Laurel refuses to back down when her elected officials--the Ocean County Freeholders--deny her request to leave her pension to Stacie, an automatic option for heterosexual married couples. The film is structured chronologically, following both the escalation of Laurel's battle with the Freeholders and the decline of her health as cancer spreads to her brain.