Beyond Gay: The Politics of Pride
Over the course of a year, film follows Vancouver Pride Society president Ken Coolen to various international Pride events, including Poland, Hungary, Russia, Sri Lanka and others where there is great opposition to pride parades. In North America, Pride is complicated by commercialization and a sense that the festivals are turning away from their political roots toward tourism, party promotion and entertainment. Christie documents the ways larger, more mainstream Pride events have supported the global Pride movement and how human rights components are being added to more established events. In the New York sequence, leaders organize an alternative Pride parade, the Drag March, set up to protest the corporatization of New York Pride. A parade in São Paulo, the world's largest Pride festival, itself includes a completely empty float, meant to symbolize all those lost to HIV and to anti-gay violence.
Year: 2010
Genre: Documentary, History
Studio:
Director: Bob Christie
Cast: Ken Coolen, Gilbert Baker
Crew: Bob Christie (Director), Morris Chapdelaine (Producer), Charlie David (Executive Producer), Bob Christie (Writer), Aerlyn Weissman (Writer)
Runtime: 87 minutes
Release: Mar 26, 2010
IMDb: 4.40/10 by 6 users
Popularity: 1
Country: Canada
Language: English
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
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