# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, circa 1999, Greenwich Village, Jose with Peggy, summer of 1999\]

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez circa 1999 exploring different locations in Manhattan. There is footage of the New York City coast, the docks, the Statue of Liberty and the ferry. Then, he documents Greenwich Village, with footage of different gay bars on Christopher Street. At the end, there is footage of some of his friends hanging out at his apartment with the dog Peggy. Collection description This film (Perez_0006) is part of the Mario Perez Video Collection . The Mario Perez Videotape 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 crucial corrective to the abuse and bullying that many gay men received in Phys. Ed. at school when they were children. It was a place that gay men could be themselves and…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 1999
- By: Mario Perez
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0006)
- 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)

[Watch now](https://invisiblenetwork.ai/watch/archive/ia/ALCF_Perez_0006?play=1)