DIRECTED BY
Annie Sprinkle,
Beth Stephens
WRITTEN BY
Beth Stephens
STARRING
Larry Gibson,
Grumble,
Vivian Stockman,
The Earth
Goodbye Gauley Mountain: An Ecosexual Love Story is the true tale of ecosexual lovers, Beth Stephens and Annie Sprinkle's journey from San Francisco to West Virginia to visit Beth's family and join the fight against a devastating coal mining technique, mountain top removal. This film exposes its social and environmental injustices in one of the most poverty-stricken regions of the United States. It also explores the devastating global consequences to us all, even those living far beyond the destruction of the endangered, bio-diverse Appalachian Mountains. By juxtaposing sadness and humor, love and greed, beauty and devastation, it braids Beth's West Virginia coalfield hillbilly past, with the promise of ecosexuality in order to deploy new strategies of resistance and make the fight against environmental destruction more sexy, fun, hopeful and diverse. It asks, what would happen if we changed our relationship from Earth as mother, to Earth as lover? It's a compelling story of small communities facing annihilation for short-term corporate gain, but it's also a story about hope, love-and how, finding strength together, we can resist, and fight for justice in our own queer loving ways.
