Ballot Measure 9

Ballot Measure 9 is a 1995 documentary film directed and produced by Heather MacDonald.^[1] The film examines the cultural and political battle that took place in 1992 over Oregon Ballot Measure 9, a citizens' initiative proposition that would have declared homosexuality "abnormal, wrong, unnatural, and perverse."

Ballot Measure 9
Film poster
Directed by	Heather Lyn MacDonald
Produced by	Heather Lyn MacDonald
Cinematography	Ellen Hansen
Edited by	Heather Lyn MacDonald & BB Jorissen
Music by	Julian Dylan Russell
Distributed by	Sovereign Distribution
Release date	1995 (1995)
Running time	72 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English

Awards

• Audience Award at the Sundance Film Festival, 1995.^[2]
• Teddy Award at the Berlin International Film Festival, 1995.^[3]
• "Best of the Fest" at the Edinburgh International Film Festival, 1995.^[4]
• People's Choice Award at the Denver International Film Festival, 1995.^[4]

References

1. Maslin, Janet (21 June 1995). "FILM REVIEW; How Numbers Count, in Countering a Minority". The New York Times. p. C15. ISSN 0362-4331.
2. "1995 Sundance Film Festival". sundance.org. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
3. "Ballot Measure 9". teddyaward.tv. Retrieved 7 October 2023.
4. "Ballot Measure 9". Toots Crackin Productions. Retrieved 7 October 2023.

Further reading

• Summers, Claude, ed. (2012). The Queer Encyclopedia of Film and Television. San Francisco, Calif.: Cleis Press. pp. 96–97. ISBN 978-1-5734-4882-6.

External links

• Official website
• Ballot Measure 9 at IMDb 
• Ballot Measure 9 at Rotten Tomatoes