Welcome to Spencer Indiana — the smallest town in the USA with a dedicated Pride Community Center.
The story.
This is a documentary about Spencer Pride, and the four people who first met in secret nearly two decades ago desperate to create an inviting space not just for themselves, but for so many others that craved community. Today Spencer Pride is a significant annual festival, thriving organization, and essential rural outreach programs comprised of volunteers from all walks of life operating out of a historic building on the town square, just across from the county seat.
This film resonates.
America is a divided nation that doesn’t always understand itself. Our rural spaces feel miss-represented & Americans of all walks of life are struggling to make ends meet.
So how did a community of just 2,000 come together for diversity, equity, and inclusion?
This film charts those humble beginnings of a few members of the community gathering at secret meetings for fear of their safety, the first small festival on a riverbank in the town park to creating an event that generates more local sales than Black Friday, and a safe-space community center that is one of the largest in the nation.
Along the way we explore the community resilience, drive for economic revitalizations, and the terrifying realities of violent and bureaucratic push-backs.
This isn’t a story of what happens when everything is easy. This is an authentic and relatable story about grit, determination, and not taking no for an answer. It’s a story of a community standing up to weaponized government, and a story of founders facing domestic terrorism on their front lawn.
And still they persisted.
