# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 1995-2003, Christopher Street Pier, gay bar Sneakers, Damian and Peggy, Havana (Cuba)\]

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez with a compilation of different scenes from 1995 to 2003. It shows footage of him and his friends at the piers and at the gay bar Sneakers in Christopher Street, New York, circa 1995. There is brief footage of Mario and John's apartment and their dogs, Damian and Peggy, circa 2000. The majority of the footage documents one of his trips to Havana, Cuba in 2003. On that trip, Mario and his husband David stayed with family members as they celebrated the New Year and explored the municipalities of Marianao and La lisa. Collection description This film (Perez_0003) is part of the Mario Perez Video Collection . The Mario Perez Video Collection consists of 20 8mm videotapes and 28 mini-DV tapes. The tapes capture Mario and his friends in the gay community from about 1996 to about 2009. They are very personal and show Mario and his friends hanging out on Christopher Street, on the piers, at the Chelsea Gym and in the gay bar called Sneakers, which was on West Street at the corner of Christopher Street. The collection includes video on the following subject matter: Christopher Street and environs – gay bars, bookstores, and street life in the late 1990s including footage of bars with an ethnically and gender diverse clientele that no longer exist. These provide a view of gay life that has disappeared from Greenwich Village. 2. The Closing of the Chelsea Gym – the Chelsea Gym was an important part of New York City Gay Culture. Gym culture was a…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2003
- By: Mario Perez
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0003)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Teens profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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