ENDING DISEASE FILM
REVIEWS
“A tremendously important film”
-Lael Lowenstein KPCC FILMWEEK
“Gantz expertly balances the importance of science with the emotions and humanity of family members facing life-threatening illnesses in a way that few other narratives or documentaries have.”
-Georgi Presecky, Patch Chicago
“Joe Gantz’s engaging, powerful, educational, inspirational, insightful, moving documentary examines the passage of Proposition 71 in 2004 in California.”
-Wendy Schadewald
“Gantz followed patients and their doctors through first generation, FDA-approved clinical trials using stem cells and CAR T-cells to treat conditions previously considered incurable.”
-Tom Archdeacon, Dayton Daily News
"The new documentary Ending Disease takes viewers through a roller coaster journey of emotions that does not only reveal the stories of the patients and the doctors who are working together, but it also showcases the moments that the families have together, during both the tragedies and the triumphs."
-Michael Cook, Instinct Magazine
"Ending Disease, directed by Emmy winner Joe Gantz (Taxicab Confessions), tells the stories of doctors and patients in order to illustrate both medical breakthroughs and personal struggles with illness."
-Daniel Reynolds, The Advocate.
“Ending Disease calls for an end to the stigma and misinformation surrounding this research by dispelling myths about the science and highlighting actual patients whose lives have been saved by CAR T-cell and stem cell therapies.”
-Melissa Myers Mountain Express
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
FOX11 In Depth
Spectrum News 1
KNX In Depth
THE RACE TO SAVE THE WORLD
REVIEWS
“Courageous people who have been willing to put their bodies on the line for issues they cared about have moved our country forward in so many ways, over so many years. As The Race to Save the World shows us, that passion and commitment is alive and well, with diverse people - from teens to grandmas - engaging in the time honored tradition of protest and civil disobedience to combat the climate crisis. I hope everyone will watch this film and be inspired to join these everyday heroes in the struggle of our lifetime.”
-Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace US
“These are important stories, told in engaging fashion--and I can testify that there are similar scenes from every corner of the planet. The fight to halt the destruction of the planet's climate system may be the biggest movement in earth history, and these brave people help tell a tale everyone needs to hear!”
-Bill McKibben, founder 350.org
“Successful social movements always have a small number of deeply-committed people willing to take extraordinary risks. The Race To Save The World offers a frank look at some Americans who have chosen to place their bodies at the "tip of the spear" in the fight for climate justice. Their courage, and their resolute optimism, is inspiring.”
-Denis Hayes, coordinator of the first Earth Day and Founder of the Earth Day Network.
“The huge personal risks people are taking everyday to save our planet from toxic fossil fuel interests pulsates throughout The Race To Save The World. The courage of the climate activists featured - young and old - gives goosebumps. Story-telling, litigation and civil disobedience are essential to creating a greener, healthier and fairer future for all.”
-Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.
“There is still time to prevent catastrophic climate change. This powerful film shows how each of us can use our voice and our actions to save this planet from destruction. Watch it and be inspired to make a difference.”
-Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War
“The film realistically captures characters who take real risks and the impacts on their loved ones and on themselves. Implicitly it raises questions about the best way to achieve environmental goals... Gantz' film spurs us to think about how to be more effective.”
-Dr. James Hansen, whose 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change helped raise broad awareness of global warming.
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
THE GUARDIAN
INTO FILM
EARTH.ORG
REVIEWS
“Courageous people who have been willing to put their bodies on the line for issues they cared about have moved our country forward in so many ways, over so many years. As The Race to Save the World shows us, that passion and commitment is alive and well, with diverse people - from teens to grandmas - engaging in the time honored tradition of protest and civil disobedience to combat the climate crisis. I hope everyone will watch this film and be inspired to join these everyday heroes in the struggle of our lifetime.”
-Annie Leonard, Executive Director, Greenpeace US
“These are important stories, told in engaging fashion--and I can testify that there are similar scenes from every corner of the planet. The fight to halt the destruction of the planet's climate system may be the biggest movement in earth history, and these brave people help tell a tale everyone needs to hear!”
-Bill McKibben, founder 350.org
“Successful social movements always have a small number of deeply-committed people willing to take extraordinary risks. The Race To Save The World offers a frank look at some Americans who have chosen to place their bodies at the "tip of the spear" in the fight for climate justice. Their courage, and their resolute optimism, is inspiring.”
-Denis Hayes, coordinator of the first Earth Day and Founder of the Earth Day Network.
“The huge personal risks people are taking everyday to save our planet from toxic fossil fuel interests pulsates throughout The Race To Save The World. The courage of the climate activists featured - young and old - gives goosebumps. Story-telling, litigation and civil disobedience are essential to creating a greener, healthier and fairer future for all.”
-Jennifer Morgan, Executive Director of Greenpeace International.
“There is still time to prevent catastrophic climate change. This powerful film shows how each of us can use our voice and our actions to save this planet from destruction. Watch it and be inspired to make a difference.”
-Michael Mann, author of The New Climate War
“The film realistically captures characters who take real risks and the impacts on their loved ones and on themselves. Implicitly it raises questions about the best way to achieve environmental goals... Gantz' film spurs us to think about how to be more effective.”
-Dr. James Hansen, whose 1988 Congressional testimony on climate change helped raise broad awareness of global warming.
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
THE GUARDIAN
INTO FILM
EARTH.ORG
A SECRET I CAN'T TELL
REVIEWS
"A moving testimony to the courage, determination and inventiveness of same-sex parents who battled against all odds to create loving happy families. A Secret I Can't Tell shows how the families Joe Gantz first met four decades ago have gone from being rare and frowned upon to becoming an increasingly common, accepted and successful facet of family diversity in modern America. Bravo!”
-Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner and gay-rights activist
"As the song says, "Sons of the thief, sons of the saint, who is the child with no complaint" -- and it turns out that four decades ago, as now, the kids of pioneering gay parents had their share of complaints, too, alongside joys, triumphs, and love. All are skillfully rendered in the family vignettes that make up the bulk of A Secret I Can't Tell. Joe Gantz's original interviews and later updates confirm what the evidence, expertise, and experience of the intervening years have shown: despite discrimination, gay parents are doing a great job, their kids are okay, and families are, well, families. All deserve love, respect, and support."
-Evan Wolfson, internationally recognized civil rights lawyer and strategist. He was the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the pioneering campaign which drove the successful strategy that won same-sex couples the right to marry throughout the United States.
"It is fascinating to read these testimonies of historical pioneers who paved the way for the extraordinary changes which have taken place in my lifetime. Like many in the LGBTQ+ community, I am deeply grateful for those who took the risk for us all. A Secret I Can’t Tell recounts the starting point for our journey toward being an open and unashamed secret! Thank you, Joe Gantz for reminding us of whence we came."
-Vaughan Jones, is the minister of Union Chapel in London, and was the founding CEO of Praxis, a voluntary organization supporting refugees and migrants. He has been active in human rights, homelessness and migrant rights throughout his long career.
"Although our planet continues to progress each year towards a state of greater sexual toleration and respect, we must remember that, back in the 1970s and 1980s, lesbian and gay mothers and fathers suffered tremendous shame for having challenged the traditional model of heterosexual parenting. In this gripping book, Joe Gantz has chronicled his pioneering research work, providing us with a detailed portrait of the lives and minds of those who challenged the unquestioned standards of yesteryear. As both a psychotherapist and a sexologist, I hold this iconic book in very high regard indeed.”
-Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London, and author of Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.
"When you open "A Secret I Can't Tell" you step into an American time machine, nervously set the dial for the year 1983, hit go and whoosh, you're suddenly at the kitchen tables, in the dens or riding along in cars with a brave collection of parents with their teenagers who all have something in common, but, because it's 1983, they barely have the vocabulary or the confidence to tell you what it is. With his remarkable 40-year long, three-generation portrait of gay families, Joe Gantz has found a profoundly moving way of moving back and forth between 1983 and today and showing us that, despite momentary setbacks in human and civil rights, we do live in a culture that can evolve for the better."
-John Hoffman, six-time Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes FAUCI for National Geographic, OUT OF MANY ONE for Netflix, RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN for Discovery and THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION for HBO.
INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES
"A moving testimony to the courage, determination and inventiveness of same-sex parents who battled against all odds to create loving happy families. A Secret I Can't Tell shows how the families Joe Gantz first met four decades ago have gone from being rare and frowned upon to becoming an increasingly common, accepted and successful facet of family diversity in modern America. Bravo!”
-Peter Tatchell, human rights campaigner and gay-rights activist
"As the song says, "Sons of the thief, sons of the saint, who is the child with no complaint" -- and it turns out that four decades ago, as now, the kids of pioneering gay parents had their share of complaints, too, alongside joys, triumphs, and love. All are skillfully rendered in the family vignettes that make up the bulk of A Secret I Can't Tell. Joe Gantz's original interviews and later updates confirm what the evidence, expertise, and experience of the intervening years have shown: despite discrimination, gay parents are doing a great job, their kids are okay, and families are, well, families. All deserve love, respect, and support."
-Evan Wolfson, internationally recognized civil rights lawyer and strategist. He was the founder and president of Freedom to Marry, the pioneering campaign which drove the successful strategy that won same-sex couples the right to marry throughout the United States.
"It is fascinating to read these testimonies of historical pioneers who paved the way for the extraordinary changes which have taken place in my lifetime. Like many in the LGBTQ+ community, I am deeply grateful for those who took the risk for us all. A Secret I Can’t Tell recounts the starting point for our journey toward being an open and unashamed secret! Thank you, Joe Gantz for reminding us of whence we came."
-Vaughan Jones, is the minister of Union Chapel in London, and was the founding CEO of Praxis, a voluntary organization supporting refugees and migrants. He has been active in human rights, homelessness and migrant rights throughout his long career.
"Although our planet continues to progress each year towards a state of greater sexual toleration and respect, we must remember that, back in the 1970s and 1980s, lesbian and gay mothers and fathers suffered tremendous shame for having challenged the traditional model of heterosexual parenting. In this gripping book, Joe Gantz has chronicled his pioneering research work, providing us with a detailed portrait of the lives and minds of those who challenged the unquestioned standards of yesteryear. As both a psychotherapist and a sexologist, I hold this iconic book in very high regard indeed.”
-Professor Brett Kahr, Senior Fellow at the Tavistock Institute of Medical Psychology in London, and Visiting Professor of Psychoanalysis and Mental Health at Regent’s University London, and author of Who’s Been Sleeping in Your Head?: The Secret World of Sexual Fantasies.
"When you open "A Secret I Can't Tell" you step into an American time machine, nervously set the dial for the year 1983, hit go and whoosh, you're suddenly at the kitchen tables, in the dens or riding along in cars with a brave collection of parents with their teenagers who all have something in common, but, because it's 1983, they barely have the vocabulary or the confidence to tell you what it is. With his remarkable 40-year long, three-generation portrait of gay families, Joe Gantz has found a profoundly moving way of moving back and forth between 1983 and today and showing us that, despite momentary setbacks in human and civil rights, we do live in a culture that can evolve for the better."
-John Hoffman, six-time Emmy Award winning documentary filmmaker whose work includes FAUCI for National Geographic, OUT OF MANY ONE for Netflix, RANCHER, FARMER, FISHERMAN for Discovery and THE WEIGHT OF THE NATION for HBO.
INTERVIEWS AND ARTICLES
Advocate Today
As Tennessee becomes the first state to restrict Drag performances, Tracy E. Gilchrist of Advocate Today speaks to Joe Gantz about his book "A Secret I Can't Tell." The book interviews LGBTQ+ families and their children as they fend off hate and ostracization from their communities.
As Tennessee becomes the first state to restrict Drag performances, Tracy E. Gilchrist of Advocate Today speaks to Joe Gantz about his book "A Secret I Can't Tell." The book interviews LGBTQ+ families and their children as they fend off hate and ostracization from their communities.
19th News
As the anti-gay activist Anita Bryant launched her “Save the Children” campaign, Gantz grew curious about the lives of queer parents and their kids, forced to keep their families secret… Now, four decades later, the book is hitting shelves again, this time with fresh interviews with the kids (now middle-aged adults) and a new title. “A Secret I Can’t Tell” is not just a rare history about youth raised by queer parents in the 1980s; it is an eerily timely arrival as anti-LGBTQ+ laws are sending many queer families back into the closet.
As the anti-gay activist Anita Bryant launched her “Save the Children” campaign, Gantz grew curious about the lives of queer parents and their kids, forced to keep their families secret… Now, four decades later, the book is hitting shelves again, this time with fresh interviews with the kids (now middle-aged adults) and a new title. “A Secret I Can’t Tell” is not just a rare history about youth raised by queer parents in the 1980s; it is an eerily timely arrival as anti-LGBTQ+ laws are sending many queer families back into the closet.
Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES
In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with writer-filmmaker and fierce LGBTQ ally Joe Gantz about his new book “A Secret I Can’t Tell” available on Carpenter Hill Publishing. Originally published in 1983 the nonfiction book was the only record of American gay and lesbian headed household family life during the heyday of the homophobic Moral Majority. In republishing the book Gantz revisits the families 40 years later with new interviews and a new unparalleled look at how far we’ve come and underscores how close we are to returning to a dark past.
In this exclusive audio interview Emmy Winner Charlotte Robinson host of OUTTAKE VOICES™ talks with writer-filmmaker and fierce LGBTQ ally Joe Gantz about his new book “A Secret I Can’t Tell” available on Carpenter Hill Publishing. Originally published in 1983 the nonfiction book was the only record of American gay and lesbian headed household family life during the heyday of the homophobic Moral Majority. In republishing the book Gantz revisits the families 40 years later with new interviews and a new unparalleled look at how far we’ve come and underscores how close we are to returning to a dark past.
Dumb Gay Politics with Julie & Brandy
On the last episode of 2022, Julie and Brandy talk to acclaimed director & writer Joe Gantz about his book, “A Secret I Can’t Tell.” Published in 1983 (and updated in 2022), the book tells the groundbreaking story of five brave families who raised their children in openly gay homes, during one of the most volatile and transformative periods in history.
OPINION PIECE by JOE GANTZ
About the "Don't Say Gay" bill
Tampa Bay Times
