# \[Home movie: Mario Perez Video Collection, 2008, Cuba\]

Synopsis A home movie from 2008 by Mario Perez about his trip to Cuba. It starts with the day before his trip at this house in New York showing his and David's bedroom. There is footage of him with some family members in the United States. He records them with the purpose of showing the video the next day to the family in Cuba. After he arrives in Cuba, he spends time with his family and explores La Lisa, Marianao and La Habana with his cousin Martica, her partner Chely and his brother Esteban, who is also gay. This video documents how Cuba has changed in terms of sexual freedom and acceptance of the LGTBQ+ Community. Collection description This film (Perez_0041) 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…

- Kind: Home movie
- Year: 2008
- By: Mario Perez
- Genres: Religion
- Archive: [Internet Archive](https://archive.org/details/ALCF_Perez_0041)
- Licence or status: [CC BY-SA 4.0](https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) (as the archive states it)
- Who can watch: Adult profiles and older (the archive gives no rating; placed by Invisible Network from its collection and subjects)

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