A Kind of Family (1992)

Directed by

Andrew Koster

Genre

documentary film, LGBTQ-related film

Country

Canada

Runtime

53 min

Rating

4.0 of 10 from 3 voters

Elsewhere

IMDb

How it feels

A documentary about a Canadian politician and an HIV-positive teenager. The politician takes the teenager in as a foster parent and later adopts him.

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What happens

A Kind of Family is a Canadian documentary film, directed by Andrew Koster and released in 1992. The film centres on Glen Murray, at the time a Winnipeg City Councillor and one of Canada's first openly gay politicians, and Mike, a gay, HIV-positive street kid whom Murray took in as a foster parent and then adopted him. The film received limited theatrical distribution before being broadcast by CBC Television as an episode of the Witness documentary series. It received a Genie Award nomination for Best Short Documentary at the 13th Genie Awards. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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