In honor of the documentary Esther Newton Ma Me Gay screeng at the LGBT Communy Center on Friday October 21, please enjoy this 2019 terview.
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- ESTHER NEWTON MA ME GAY
- GET BEHD NEW FILM ‘ESTHER NEWTON MA ME GAY’
- ESTHER NEWTON MA ME GAY
- HOW ESTHER NEWTON MA EVERYONE GAY
- NEWFT PRI: ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY
ESTHER NEWTON MA ME GAY
Esther Newton Ma Me Gay: Directed by Jean Carlomto. Cultural anthropologist and proud lbian Esther Newton was years ahead of her time when she studied Midwtern drag shows the 1960s, back when amia turned s back on her." data-id="ma * esther newton made me gay *
Esther Newton Ma Me Gay celebrat the life, lov, and fluence of this pneerg figure queer studi. Kramer, Gay Cy News. “Through the ank rellectns of Newton, now her early 80s, Carlomto tak the dawn of gay liberatn, fightg wh the femist movement, AIDS activism, and the history of the formatn of the idyllic queer muny of Fire Island’s Cherry Grove.
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ABOUT THE FILMESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY explor the life and tim of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton.
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ESTHER NEWTON MA ME GAY
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Her work spired generatns of scholars to pursue rearch what would eventually bee the field of LGBTQ+ and Genr film tells her story of awakeng to gay life the 1950’s, the women’s liberatn movement and lbian-femism, drag culture, and fg a butch inty which for her is now nversatn wh attuned to the cultural and societal forc that shaped her life, Esther guis through an anthropology of herself, a study fluenced by her love for a sport—petive dog agily—that pairs her agg butch body wh her beloved dog teammate on an obstacle urse that is nstantly her persistent efforts to tra her body back to shape after numero health setbacks, we see the tense drive that has helped Esther navigate a lifetime of obstacl she faced her qut to bee who she wanted to be: a butch lbian, scholar, and athlete.
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Featurg Esther Newton, Holly Hugh, Louise Fishman, Amber Holibgh, Shaka McGlotten, Tom “Panzi” Hansen, Jack Halberstam, Mart Manalansan, Gayle Rub.
Esther Newton Ma Me GayABOUT THE PROJECTLOGLINEAgily, persistence and passnate quiry have driven Esther Newton’s survival as a butch lbian, octogenarian athlete, and groundbreakg scholar whose life’s work has fluenced generatns of LGBTQ activists and scholars.
NEWFT PRI: ESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY
SYNOPSISESTHER NEWTON MADE ME GAY explor the life and tim of cultural anthropologist Esther Newton. The film tells her story of awakeng to gay life the 1950’s, the women’s liberatn movement and lbian-femism, drag culture and fg a butch inty which for her is now nversatn wh trans-masculy. Dpe her groundbreakg work, Esther stggled to ga acceptance an amic world that siled women and shunned homosexuals.
Wh dogged persistence and the growg voice of the femist and LGBTQ movements, Newton would go on to wre important works such as Margaret Mead Ma Me Gay; Cherry Grove, Fire Island; and “My Bt Informant’s Drs” that laid the foundatn for a new generatn of Queer scholars and activists.