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• THE MOVG REVELATNS OF GAY HOME MOVI
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• RARE HOME MOVI OF GAY POOL PARTY IN 1945 INSPIRE NEW DOCUMENTARY“I KD OF ULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG .”{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 20, 2018/9:07 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1398PX;WIDTH:2174PX;}GAY HOME MOVIE/GEOFF STORYBY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 20, 2018 / 9:07 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"RARE HOME MOVI OF GAY POOL PARTY IN 1945 INSPIRE NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-01-20T14:07:32.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-01-20T14:07:32.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FET FIRE ISLAND THE '70S! THE REAL HOT SPOT WAS MISSOURI THE '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BACK THE MID-'90S, ST. LOUIS FILMMAKER GEOFF STORY PURCHASED TWO OLD FILM NISTERS AT AN TATE SALE HELD AT THE HOME OF THE LATE BUDDY WALTON, ST. LOUIS’ “HAIRDRSER TO THE STARS,” ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RAD REPORTS. THE FILMS TURNED OUT TO BE HOME MOVI OF A WILD GAY POOL PARTY SHOT {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}ACRDG TO SURVIVG RELATIV OF THE ATTEN, WALTON AND HIS PARTNER, SAM MITTO, WERE KNOWN FOR HOSTG EQUENT POOLSI SHDIGS THE TY TOWN OF HILLSBORO, SPE THE FACT THAT HOMOSEXUALY WAS {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}“THE MEN ARE STILL THEIR 20S THE SUN, SWIMMG, LIKE THEY ALWAYS WILL,” STORY SAYS. “THERE’S A REAL SWEET PA, AND WHEN YOU WATCH , THERE’S A HAPPS BUT YOU N’T BELIEVE ’S SO LONG AGO AND YOU N’T TOUCH —’S GONE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE HOME MOVI ALSO SHOW A UNIFORMED WORLD WAR II SOLDIER KISSG ANOTHER MAN. “THERE WAS SUCH A BETY THAT MOMENT,” ADDS THE GAY FILMMAKER. “I KD OF ULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG .”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}IT WASN'T UNTIL LAST YEAR THAT STORY FALLY HAD THE FILMS DIGIZED. JOED BY BETH PSACZYK, HE IS NOW RPORATG THE RARE FOOTAGE TO A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, GAY HOME MOVIE, ABOUT GAY LIFE THE '40S AND '50S.GAY HOME MOVIE/GEOFF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STORY AND PSACZYK ARE CURRENTLY TERVIEWG THE FAI AND IENDS OF THE MEN SEEN THE FILMS, BUT SO FAR THEY HAVE NOT LOTED ANY LIVG PARTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DOC HAS ALREADY ATTRACTED THE TERT OF OUT HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE BRIAN GRAN, FORMER HEAD OF PROGRAMMG AT LOGO. “WHAT ARE THE CHANC SOMEONE WOULD GO TO AN TATE SALE AND PICK UP THE NISTERS OF OLD FOOTAGE?" GRAN SAYS. "IT’S ALMOST LIKE THE MEN ARE TRYG TO TALK TO OM BEYOND THE GRAVE.”{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;POSN:RELATIVE;PADDG-BOTTOM:56.25%;} .TWTER-TWEET-RENRED, {M-WIDTH:65%;WIDTH:TO !IMPORTANT;} {WIDTH:100%;} {MARG-LEFT:TO !IMPORTANT;MARG-RIGHT:TO !IMPORTANT;} IMG{MAX-WIDTH:100%;WIDTH:100%;} > IAME{BORR:NONE;MAX-WIDTH:100%;} > *{MAX-WIDTH:NONE !IMPORTANT;POSN:ABSOLUTE;HEIGHT:100% !IMPORTANT;WIDTH:100% !IMPORTANT;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;CLEAR:BOTH;}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;MARG:0 TO;WIDTH:90%;M-WIDTH:288PX;MAX-WIDTH:1440PX;M-HEIGHT:194PX;}LATT NEWS
• ‘GAY HOME MOVIE’ DOCUMENTARY OPENS DISCSNS ABOUT RACE, GENR AND PRIVILEGE

THE MOVG REVELATNS OF GAY HOME MOVI

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‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

Funny and erotic, Benjam tells a memorable story on a mimal budget—one which will feel very te to life to many gay viewers. We want to give a special shout-out to The Capote Tap, director Ebs Burnough’s documentary about Tman Capote’s lost fal novel; The Obuary of Tun Johnson, the story of an Ain-Amerin gay man relivg his own ath over and over; Breakg Fast, the Haaz Sleiman-led queer romantic edy (which jt picked up the prtig Audience Award at aGLIFF, no ls), and Cured, a fascatg new documentary about the queer activists who lobbied the APA to classify homosexualy as an illns. Like many gay men and women of the time, he kept his sexualy closely guard.

But over the years O’Neal ma dozens of home movi—of hoe parti, drag performanc, skny-dips, travels wh his partner—many of which ptured the rhythms and timaci of gay social life long before was allowed to flourish the open. Only a few mut of his footage, showg parti, San Francis street scen, and O’Neal standg atop Co Tower, end up the film, but Ste realized that O’Neal’s rerdgs were valuable artifacts of San Francis gay history. Clips om several of the films also appear “Reel the Closet, ” a new documentary about gay home movi by the Bay Area pennt filmmaker Stu Maddux.

RARE HOME MOVI OF GAY POOL PARTY IN 1945 INSPIRE NEW DOCUMENTARY“I KD OF ULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG .”{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}{FONT:NORMAL 800 1.2REM/1.2 "D BOLD",SANS-SERIF;TEXT-TRANSFORM:NORMAL;LOR:HER;DISPLAY:LE-BLOCK;PADDG-BOTTOM:6PX;POSN:RELATIVE;TEXT-TRANSFORM:UPPERSE;}{BACKGROUND:#89308A;BOTTOM:0;NTENT:'';DISPLAY:BLOCK;HEIGHT:2PX;LEFT:0;POSN:ABSOLUTE;RIGHT:0;-WEBK-TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;TRANSN:ALL 0.2S EASE;WIDTH:100%;}{LEFT:51%;RIGHT:51%;WIDTH:0;}MOVIBY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 20, 2018/9:07 {HEIGHT:HER;DISPLAY:-WEBK-BOX;DISPLAY:-WEBK-FLEX;DISPLAY:-MS-FLEXBOX;DISPLAY:FLEX;POSN:RELATIVE;-WEBK-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-MS-FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;FLEX-WRAP:WRAP;-WEBK-ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-ALIGN:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-ALIGN:CENTER;ALIGN-EMS:CENTER;-WEBK-BOX-PACK:CENTER;-WEBK-JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-MS-FLEX-PACK:CENTER;JTIFY-NTENT:CENTER;-WEBK-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;-MS-TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;TRANSFORM-ORIG:CENTER;} IMG{HEIGHT:100%;WIDTH:100%;OBJECT-F:VER;}{HEIGHT:1398PX;WIDTH:2174PX;}GAY HOME MOVIE/GEOFF STORYBY BRANDON VOSSJANUARY 20, 2018 / 9:07 AM{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"NEWSARTICLE","HEADLE":"RARE HOME MOVI OF GAY POOL PARTY IN 1945 INSPIRE NEW DOCUMENTARY","THUMBNAILURL":","DATEPUBLISHED":"2018-01-20T14:07:32.000+0000","DATEMODIFIED":"2018-01-20T14:07:32.000+0000","IMAGE":{"@NTEXT":","@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT","URL":","WIDTH":1920,"HEIGHT":1080},"URL":","THOR":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","NAME":"LOGO TV"},"MAENTYOFPAGE":{"@TYPE":"WEBPAGE","@ID":"},"PUBLISHER":{"@TYPE":"ORGANIZATN","@ID":","NAME":"LOGO TV","URL":","LOGO":{"@TYPE":"IMAGEOBJECT"}},"CREATOR":"BRANDON VOSS","ARTICLESECTN":"MOVI"}{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}FET FIRE ISLAND THE '70S! THE REAL HOT SPOT WAS MISSOURI THE '{BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}BACK THE MID-'90S, ST. LOUIS FILMMAKER GEOFF STORY PURCHASED TWO OLD FILM NISTERS AT AN TATE SALE HELD AT THE HOME OF THE LATE BUDDY WALTON, ST. LOUIS’ “HAIRDRSER TO THE STARS,” ST. LOUIS PUBLIC RAD REPORTS. 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JOED BY BETH PSACZYK, HE IS NOW RPORATG THE RARE FOOTAGE TO A DOCUMENTARY FEATURE, GAY HOME MOVIE, ABOUT GAY LIFE THE '40S AND '50S.GAY HOME MOVIE/GEOFF {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}STORY AND PSACZYK ARE CURRENTLY TERVIEWG THE FAI AND IENDS OF THE MEN SEEN THE FILMS, BUT SO FAR THEY HAVE NOT LOTED ANY LIVG PARTY {BOX-SIZG:BORR-BOX;PADDG:24PX 0;} A{LOR:#354A4E;-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;TEXT-RATN:UNRLE;} A:HOVER, A:FOC{-WEBK-TEXT-RATN:NONE;TEXT-RATN:NONE;} B, STRONG{FONT-WEIGHT:700;}THE DOC HAS ALREADY ATTRACTED THE TERT OF OUT HOLLYWOOD EXECUTIVE BRIAN GRAN, FORMER HEAD OF PROGRAMMG AT LOGO. “WHAT ARE THE CHANC SOMEONE WOULD GO TO AN TATE SALE AND PICK UP THE NISTERS OF OLD FOOTAGE?" GRAN SAYS. 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In the se of gay home movi, the viewg experience is plited, and enriched, by the knowledge of what’s to e, for good and for bad—the liberatn of Stonewall, the vastatn of the AIDS crisis, the undog of the Defense of Marriage Act, which upl like O’Neal and Terson, who both died the mid-ghts, never got to March, I vised John Ra, a volunteer wh the GLBT Historil Society, at his quiet apartment a suburban part of Oakland to watch him digize a few of the home movi that the anizatn had acquired. A pacific man of fifty-five, he was workg on tap om the llectn of Allan Bébé, the thor of a well-regard history of gays the ary, who died 2007. ”), he sets out for Castro Street, where he se a man a tight tank top n past and quips, “This is the start of the gay Olympic marathon.

That afternoon, checkg the archiv of the Bay Area Reporter, a lol gay paper, I found an obuary for Garrisson von Habsburg, who died 1993, at the age of twenty-ne. Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri. Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie.

” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man. Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale.

‘GAY HOME MOVIE’ DOCUMENTARY OPENS DISCSNS ABOUT RACE, GENR AND PRIVILEGE

”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St. Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St.