# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, circa 2003, Cuba, photo albums, Mario's house\]

Synopsis A home movie by Mario Perez with footage of his brother Aniceto severely drunk in Cuba. The purpose of this video was to show it to Aniceto the next day so he could see how bad it was. The video also includes footage of Mario's family photo albums and of his and David's apartment in New York City. Collection description This film (Perez_0022) 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 were children. It was a place that gay men could be themselves and assert their own particular brand of masculinity. 3. Funerals – the…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2003
- By: Mario Perez
- Genres: Children's
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0022)
- 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_0022?play=1)