Three documentari highlight a generatn of gay ins
Contents:
LAS GAGE AND ZACHARY QUTO ON THE ‘UNABASHED GAYNS’ OF THEIR RNCHY SXSW COMEDY ‘DOWN LOW’
A jazz legend, a drag queen and a heartbroken trick walk to a gay bathhoe... * gay sxsw 2013 *
PJ Raval's Before You Know It was jt one of several of the gay-themed movi that screened durg At's SXSW. John lled "the bt black, gay, one-eyed junkie piano geni New Orleans has ever produced.
It's a topic equently explored gay cema -- Weekend stands as a memorable recent example -- but not as poignantly and hontly as P Stop, Yen Tan's film about two gents tryg to figure all out and keep together a small Texas town. CONTINENTAL: In this Kickstarter-fund documentary, Mallm Ingram, director of the celebrated Small Town Gay Bar, explor the legendary Contental Baths, the bathhoe that om 1968 until 1975 served not only as a sexual playground for New York Cy's burgeong gay muni, but as an artistic epicenter for performers like Barry Manilow and Bette Midler.
As gunshots sound quick succsn, the red, whe, and blue Amerin flag is replaced wh a rabow-hued gay pri flag. This is the openg sequence of Contental, Mallm Ingram's (Bear Natn, Small Town Gay Bar) new documentary premierg this year at SXSW. The 1970s were ltered wh gay spac and ins that, the terveng years, have sce taken on a mythic stat – perhaps none more so than the Contental Baths New York Cy, the subject of Contental.
* gay sxsw 2013 *
And today, as discsns of marriage reign supreme gay polics, Ingram's documentary puts the spotlight squarely on nonmonogamo sex. Ostrow, now livg Atralia, has kept his penchant for muny anizg by foundg Mature Age Gays, one of Atralia's largt gay senr groups. They closed due to a host of otherwise banal bs cisns that might foreclose any bs – Ostrow strayed om his ial mol and put his money, time, and rourc to eveng baret shows that brought nongay crowds.
While hunky gays were dancg up a storm on the dis floors of New York, Dive was famoly eatg dog sh, hangg wh the Cockett San Francis, and eventually g to a more mastream nscns wh her trashy electronic dance mic.
PJ Raval's doc follows three gay men lookg for support as they enter old age. * gay sxsw 2013 *
Unlike Contental and I Am Dive, larger-than-life-ns is trad for the quotidian and challengg reali of senr gay men. We see him tablg, at Harlem Pri, as a rg bearer, and disursg wh ease and elegance on the host of social stggl for olr gay men and men of lor. AUSTIN — Followg three men as they handle the trials of agg, PJ Raval‘s Before You Know It suggts those challeng are even more plentiful if you happen to be gay.