# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, June, 2002, Memories of Cuba #1\]

Synopsis A 2002 home movie by Mario Perez about his trip to Cuba with his husband David. It shows footage of the home of a family member in a documentation of his family and domestic life in Cuba. It also has footage of Mario with David and Pepe at Havana City in front of the National Capitol. This video was recorded with the intention of showing it to Ada, a family member that no longer lived in Cuba. Ada sent pictures, a letter and some money to Yuya, a longtime friend in Cuba. Mario recorded Yuya sending her regards and opening the presents. Collection description This film (Perez_0013) 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…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2002
- By: Mario Perez
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0013)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Kids 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_0013?play=1)