When police were sent to stop its screening at MUFF I wanted to leave the country, when Megan Spencer stood up at ACMI before a full house and vehemently protested the OFLC’s screening ban I felt very choked up, when C A C advertised the screening of A and K with the byline “Bring Tissues” I had a sense of how people were responding to the beauty and quiet triumph in this film, when Lisa Daniel told me she loved it and it was the sweetest, sexiest film she’d seen (and she’s seen a bunch) I thought “Hooray for Ashley and Kisha”, when I watch it (and I’ve seen it plenty of times) I still laugh and cry and get turned on. “Defiant beauty, radiant joy, and abundant love ” - indeed! For a middle aged white guy I don’t think you’ve done too badly.