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The trailer for a new grassroots-funded documentary about the history of discrimination, including against LGBT Americans, is circulating around the Internet and nearing a million hits on YouTube. Called Second Class Citizens, the documentary maker is raising funding for the film through funding site Kickstarter. Check out the powerful trailer here:

The project's creator, Ryan James Yezak, set out to raise at least $50,000 to fund the film; as of Wednesday, donors had pledged more than $80,000. Yezak says he decided to make the documentary to highlight the injustices and discriminatory actions facing LGBT Americans on a daily basis.

He writes: "I am not a second class citizen. You are not a second class citizen. Right now, the laws in place (and lack thereof) say that we are. Let's change that."

Brian Stewart is the journalism and online communications manager at Campus Progress.

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