# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 2006, Chely's house\]

Synopsis A home movie from 2006 by Mario Perez about a hang out in Chely's house. Chely is the partner of Martica, Mario's cousin. Present at the house was Esteban, Mario's brother who is also gay, a young man named Omar and two other women. Martica puts on a show by making a funny character of an old lady telling stories. Then, they all dance for a while while drinking and smoking. The video is a domestic documentation of a queer group in Cuba. The original version of this home movie included sexually explicit content of Mario. This version has been edited to protect the privacy of the people involved. For inquiries about the original content, please contact Al Larvick Conservation Fund at: info@allarvickfund.org Collection description This film (Perez_0030) 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…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2006
- By: Mario Perez
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0030)
- 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_0030?play=1)