An eveng of mic and poetry for, by, and about Third World gay people. Hosted by Gerald (?) of KPFA's F Punch Collective. Performers clu Chrystos,...
Contents:
- GAY THE THIRD WORLD
- A GREAT BIG WORLD'S NEW VIO CAPTUR GAY MAN'S RELATNSHIP WH DYG FATHER
- THIRD WORLD GAY CULTURAL EVENG / SPONSORED BY THE THIRD WORLD GAY CC OF SAN FRANCIS
GAY THE THIRD WORLD
Dangero Livg is the movg new documentary about the joys and sorrows of life as a gay man or lbian the Third World. The sweep of the Dangero Livg is vast, as explor universal them the homosexual experience. The film’s unterpot is the explosive growth of an open gay culture and inty the Wt durg the last century.
A GREAT BIG WORLD'S NEW VIO CAPTUR GAY MAN'S RELATNSHIP WH DYG FATHER
Sgltti ntrast this wh the relative visibily of gay culture the untri of the velopg world, at least judged by wtern standards, up until the 1990s. Foreign films and above all the ter brought gay culture to the velopg world. In the 1990s, this talyzed an explosn of public gay culture ci like Cairo, manifted f, diss, theatril productns and digeno films.
Gays and lbians had pri march such untri as Honduras and Namibia, all ptured by the mera’s eye. But the explosn of gay culture triggered a backlash om preachers and policians. A major theme of the film is the persecutn that gays and lbians have suffered for their sexualy.
The film is amed by the saga of the Cairo 52, thrown prison for two years for the crime of attendg a gay dance party. It ptur the lorful qualy of gay culture—dancg drag queens, rabow flags, a transsexual Thai kickboxer. Bee vers so much ground geographilly, the film leav trigug threads unwoven—pecially, the welg of homosexualy certa tradnal cultur.
THIRD WORLD GAY CULTURAL EVENG / SPONSORED BY THE THIRD WORLD GAY CC OF SAN FRANCIS
Prt / View Fdg Aid as Sgle PageGui to the Richard Marshall Collectn of Gay Eroti and Pornography MSS. Directed by Se Oh, the clip morn dance to nvey a story about a young gay man (alternately played by Ayd Eyikan and Travis Wall) and his actured relatnship wh a homophobic father (Col Cunliffe).
“I’ve spent many years therapy reflectg on my childhood trmas, ” said Kg, who is gay. An eveng of mic and poetry for, by, and about Third World gay people. Pat Parker reads another poem: "For the straight folks who don't md gays but wish they weren't so blatant.