Gay Days the movie
 

This year I am in a class where I need to go around and interview people from a race, religion, culture/sub-culture or sexuality that is different from the mainstream, the mainstream being of course white, Christian and stight. We can choose any format to conduct the interviews, on video, on paper, over the net or audio recording then we are to make a final project from what we gathered, the final can be a paper or a film or something else, I have decided to make a film.

I think that gay culture would be perfect subject for my reserch. Now I am not really sure what gay culture is, or if it even exists, but there is a public preception that it does so that will be one of the questions I will seek to answer in my film. I suspect that gay culture does exsist but it varies on the individual level as to how important it is for different people. One thing that is for sure is that gay people do look to other gay people, or open minded stight people, for support in the same way that members of any goup of people look for support when they are at odds with the mainstream. Gay Day is a perfect example of that support network in action.

I think that Gay Day would be a perfect format in which to conduct the interviews and get the fotage for my final film since it will be easy to find people to interview since they will all be wearing red!

I was thinking that a discussion here on the LOT would be a good way to start out, and we could use this thread to disscuss gay culture and gay days and what those things mean to people here. With the permission of the individual posters and the LOT administrators we could use some of this discussion in the film. I would also like to conduct extended on camera interviews with some of the people who participate in this thread and are going to gay day during the meet on gay day, the interviews would be no longer then 15 minutes, it would be kind of interesting to do the interviews on some attactions like small world or POTC ;) .

So let us start the discussion! :) Oh and feel free to PM me anything you might not want to post. I will keep this thread updated as this project progresses. Thanks everyone and I look forward to hearing your views! :snap:

Check your stats, I think white, Christian and straight might be the perfect topic and a grand bit of social commentary....

Maybe, but most straight white Christians scare the crap out of me (even though I am all those things), gays are much more fun and nice. ;)

Although getting reactions about gay day from the avarge disneyland guest that is not there for gay day would be interesting.

What a great idea for a project! :) When I have more time later I'll comment here.

You've got the blessing of this administrator to carry on! It sounds like a great project and I would be more than happy to use my "connections" in the Gay community to help you arrange interviews (I'm slightly well connected ;) ) I know some very well spoken gay men and women - and even some nice fag hags and "Lez Fez's" .

Woo Hoo!!! :D Thanks for the support, this should prove to be a very interesting experince. I am getting very excited about this film!

Boingo - right now you are at post number 69.

Toot!

Count me in as willing to talk about being subcultured.

69 dude, oh wait now its 70, damn...

I actually have a friend who's a big mucky muck over at GLAAD. I'd be happy to ask him if he'd like to ad his two cents.