What the hell is “The Trouble With Ray” and why do we keep crowing about it?Help us

What the hell is “The Trouble With Ray” and why do we keep crowing about it?

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Houston has a remarkable and proud LGBT history. The trouble is, hardly anyone knows it. “The Trouble with Ray,” a documentary film by Travis Johns & Jarrod Gullett of Proud Pony International, seeks to change all that. “The Trouble with Ray” has wowed audiences, winning accolades at film festivals in London, Amsterdam, Chicago, Houston, Dallas, and Austin. But the story’s not over! Proud Pony has reams of additional material and is working to expand the project to a feature length film with the backing of the American Documentary Film Festival. 

 ABOUT THE FILM

“The Trouble With Ray” documents the life, times, and crimes of Ray Hill, one of Houston’s first, loudest, and most enduring LGBT-rights activitsts. This short film follows Ray through his tireless fight for equality. We watch Ray’s journey from an out-of-the-closet Texas High School Football Quarterback (in 1958!) to a “Citizen Provacatuer” giving a voice to the voiceless, to his present role as a still-determined 74 year old completely unafraid to speak truth to power.

For nearly 50 years, Ray Hill has been the brash face of his movement, with a style of activism that continues to shock and inspire today. Equally hilarious, warm-hearted, and acerbic, with his unique Southern charm and nothing-to-lose attitude, Ray Hill can still convince just about anybody that where there’s life, there’s hope.

Beautifully shot and edited, “The Trouble With Ray” chronicles a one-of-a-kind figure, living an only-in-America life, and in the process tells one of the Civil Rights era’s most fascinating and least-retold stories: how  a thriving LGBT community was born deep in the heart of Texas and proudly marched their concerns to the national stage.