# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, circa 2003, Damian, New Jersey, New York City, AHRC\]

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez with a compilation of different scenes circa 2003. It includes footage of him and David in Lambertville, New Jersey at a friend's home, and a detailed showing of Mario's apartment from when he lived with John Ramos. It also shows a lot of footage of his dog Damian and his cat Max. Finally, the video captures Madison Square Garden at night and footage of the AHRC New York City Organization, which Mario worked for. Collection description This film (Perez_0009) 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 crucial corrective to the abuse and bullying that many gay men received in Phys. Ed. at school when they…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2003
- By: Mario Perez
- Genres: Religion
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0009)
- 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_0009?play=1)