Moisés Kfman, 52, grew up gay nservative Venezuela. He's now one of the most acclaimed, eloquent voic Amerin theater.
Contents:
- WATCH THE TRAILER FOR GAY, LATO, PRISON DRAMA ‘LUZ’
- HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO
- FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT
WATCH THE TRAILER FOR GAY, LATO, PRISON DRAMA ‘LUZ’
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NEW YORK — Growg up gay Venezuela, Moisés Kfman knew what was like to feel like an outsir.
“But I remember very vividly the first time I found the word ‘homosexual’ the dictnary and beg lighted, bee I thought there mt be one other person the world who is homosexual bee there is a word for .
Kfman won a Lambda Lerary Award, an award given for works that explore LGBT them, for "Gross Incency" same year, jt three months after the btal murr of gay stunt Matthew Shepard, Kfman took his theater group to Laramie, Wyomg to terview people the town where the killg had taken place. It has been performed worldwi, and is often ed to te people about homophobia and anti-LGBT vlence.
HERE'S THE TTH ABOUT BEG A GAY LATO
Are you a gay wrer? When "The Laramie Project" was first beg produced at lleg, there were protts om people who claimed was beg ed to rec stunts to homosexualy. Last year, Rsia cut off fundg for a productn of "Gross Incency" at the Mosw New Drama Theater bee of s gay them.
“If I am any good at what I do, then I’m a Lato wrer and I am a Jewish wrer and I’m a gay wrer, and I’m a New York wrer. Every year, June is celebrated as LGBT Pri Month to honor the 1969 Stonewall Rts New York Cy that set off the gay rights movement the Uned Stat. A jubilant portra of young gay love, this assured but feature tenrly pars the terra of growg up different more ways than one.
Outft and the Lbian and Gay Film Ftivals New York, San Francis, Seattle and Toronto.
FROM GAY CONVERSN THERAPY TO LEATHER COMPETNS: 11 MT-SEE LATO MOVI PLAYG OUTFT
Standard crime thriller terrory, you might thk, but for the fact that Angel and Nene are gay lovers known as the ‘tws” and Cuervo brgs his own sexual tensy along wh his hottie girliend Vivi, and BTW all of this is based on a te story. Coach Stt, A forty-five year old whe male has spent thoands of hours wh gay chat rooms, msage boards and datg web s. The trailer’s out for a gay prison drama celebratg Lat men fallg love.
Then, Dark Star Pictur will release the gay prison drama through vio-on-mand on April 13. In a new vio om Flama/Univisn, ntributor Gabe Gonzalez nstcts the nuanc of intifyg as both gay and Lato and the way this shap his life Amerin vio is cidly satiril, and tackl a number of issu about exotifitn among queer men, as well as sexual health the Lato muny. Acrdg to Gonzalez, the are issu that Lato gay men Ameri are nonted wh que equently.
Growg up, most of my iends knew I was gay, but I faced the lguistic and cultural barriers ftg at school. At home I spoke Spanish fortably, but worried about 'butchg up' and actg like a 'boy' so my parents wouldn’t thk I was gay.