Alastair Gee on what mak home movi, like those of Harold O’Neal, valuable artifacts of Amerin gay history.
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
* gay home movie *
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.
THE MOVG REVELATNS OF GAY HOME MOVI
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.
‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
She said after the 40s, gay and lbian centers cltered maly around Grand Center, the Central Wt End and Lafayette Square.