Gerry Rogers is a Canadian

Canada

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 documentary

Documentary film

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 filmmaker and politician. She began her career with the National Film Board

National Film Board of Canada

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, and left in 1992 to form her own production company, Augusta Productions. Her best-known film, My Left Breast

My Left Breast

My Left Breast is a 2002 Canadian documentary film, produced by Pope Productions and directed and filmed by filmmaker Gerry Rogers and her partner Peg Norman...

, documented her battle with breast cancer

Breast cancer

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 and was released in 2000.

Openly

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 lesbian

Lesbian

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, Rogers is the partner of social worker and politician Peg Norman

Peg Norman

Peg Norman is a Canadian documentary filmmaker, best known for her role in the film My Left Breast, which documented her partner Gerry Rogers' battle with breast cancer.-Background:...

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Rogers was elected to the Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

Newfoundland and Labrador House of Assembly

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 in the 2011 provincial election

Newfoundland and Labrador general election, 2011

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, representing the district of St. John’s Centre as a member of the Newfoundland and Labrador New Democratic Party. She is the first openly gay politician ever elected to the provincial legislature.

Films

• After the Montreal Massacre (1990)
• The Vienna Tribunal (1994)
• Kathleen Shannon: On Film, Feminism and Other Dreams (1997)
• My Left Breast
  My Left Breast
  My Left Breast is a 2002 Canadian documentary film, produced by Pope Productions and directed and filmed by filmmaker Gerry Rogers and her partner Peg Norman...
  
  (2000)
• Ferron: Girl on a Road (2009)

External links

• Augusta Productions