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“There are so many people who say to me ‘You should wear a skirt and put on makeup because you’re a girl’”.

“When I play with gender roles, it confuses people and makes them uncomfortable”.

Director Debra Chasnoff talks with a student before interviewing her for Straightlaced.

In Straightlaced, diverse students talk about the pressures they face to conform to gender roles and how that limits who they really want to be.

“It was kind of shocking when the students at our school voted for a lesbian to be the student council president. But now it’s cool.”

“Really there are more than two genders - people like me who don’t really feel male or female.”

“Someone asked me ‘Why are you wearing that scarf, dude, are you gay?’ I said ‘No, man, my neck is cold. You got a problem with that?’”

“A guy I liked wouldn’t date me because he said I’m too big, aggressive and loud for a girl. That hurts, because that means I can’t be who I really am.”

On set with a student from the newest RFAP film Straightlaced about gender roles and homophobia.

“If you don’t have a girlfriend or you don’t talk about how much sex you’re having, other guys think you’re gay.”

“If you wore that shirt, you’d get shot. That’s a pretty boy shirt.”