Synopsis

Project Gay Latino Los Angeles is structured around the lives of three young gay Latino men from various social, economic and national backgrounds. Each is introduced through verité footage and interview clips.The stories are illustrated with photo stills and/or archival footage.

 

 

Subjects are portrayed in their current daily situations, while recounting stories that reveal the role that family, relationships, social oppression, morality and machismo play in forming their identity within the context of life in Los Angeles.  They explain how being gay and Latino has influenced their lives and what steps they have taken to overcome any negative effects that these elements have brought within their personal journeys.  Footage of their lives today shows them to be engaged as professionals, successful members of our society, and as role models for Latino youth struggling homophobia around them. Community and religious leaders, activists, politicians, educators, artists, researchers, club promoters and other key players of the gay community in the Los Angeles scene share their thoughts on the development of gay Latino identity today vs. 15-20 years ago.

 

Support footage of what the community looks like today is shown while discussing how gay Latinos are developing a very powerful and multicultural world for themselves—in the worlds largest gay Latino club in the world, Circus Disco, the fight for marriage equality with LEA (Latino Equality Alliance), the underground gay gangster scene in South Central, cruising and hanging out in special gay Latino parks and the gay Latino academic movement in major universities.