Prs — Gay Home Movie Documentary

Contents:

• ‘GAY HOME MOVIE’ DOCUMENTARY OPENS DISCSNS ABOUT RACE, GENR AND PRIVILEGE
• THE MOVG REVELATNS OF GAY HOME MOVI
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

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

What Story found shocked him – dozens of gay men at a pool party a remote lotn Hillsboro, Missouri out Nancy Fowler’s story about the home movi revealg what is was like beg gay mid-century St. ’s upg documentary, “Gay Home Movie, ” will rporate the home vios as well as terviews wh the fai and iends of the men the films. Louis on the Air, host Don Marsh discsed what gay life was like durg the 1940s and 50s St.

Louis Public Rad, Steven Brawley, thor of "Gay and Lbian St. Brawley said the film is important for youth to see bee they n learn om the experienc of those who me before them – when lbian and gay upl faced arrts at bars, uld not walk together holdg hands or host pri ftivals.

Brawley said even though the men the film were gay, they still benefted om whe privilege. ”Var proment bars and social hangouts for whe gays and lbians also tend to be mixed-race neighborhoods or areas wh lower rent.

THE MOVG REVELATNS OF GAY HOME MOVI

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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.

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

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.