What does it mean to be a sissy or considered a “f*ggot” of your own gay community? Marc & Fausto are featured as part of the Season One cast in the ethnographic documentary series, “50 F*ggots.” Come join them for the Chicago launch of the series, with a full cast party at Hydrate Nightclub on Thursday May 13th, and the premiere of the first episode & cast Q&A at The Center on Halsted on Friday, May 14th. Visit the site to view the trailer, cast information, and more details about upcoming events!
Overview:
“We all know the stereotypes…But how gay do you want to be today?”
Welcome to 50 F*ggots – the groundbreaking, new, online documentary series educating, exploring and celebrating how individual effeminate gay men survive and thrive in today’s American queer communities!
50 F*ggots educates audiences with the unprecedented access to the lives and experiences of effeminate male activists, artists, professionals and educators – perspectives rarely discussed within most cultures. The series addresses the dearth of self-acceptance among effeminate men, young and old, with humorous anecdotes, important wisdom, and inspiring models of resilience. By offering individual alternatives to dominant constructions of American masculinity and heteronormative gay lifestyles, this film illuminates the on-going issues relevant to queer communities.
The first season, located in the urban neighborhoods of Chicago, Washington D.C., and New York City, dedicates two years to documenting the stories of ten effeminate gay men. These men discuss their professional and personal lives, often in contradiction to communities that demand a rigid and binary definition of gender, particularly valuing patriarchy and an “appropriate” presentation of “straight-acting” masculinity. Regardless of each man’s assertion of their own authentic self, specific dominant ideologies construct the societal assumptions of these men’s presumed personalities, sexualities and behaviors.
This documentary series celebrates the differences among urban and rural environments, along racial, religious, and intergenerational lines. While the series allows each man to discuss the ways their personal effeminate expressions are negotiated in career, relationships, and communities, this documentary project creates national dialogue around the diversity of ways to truly “be” a man.
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Great stuff, thanks so much! This is an area which society — homo and het — has forever danced around — what is a man? Thank you so much for taking this on and doing the docs. The more we as a society face our unease about just what is a man, just how diverse are the private and public layers of manhood, the mre we c`an explore and appreciate the myriad ways of manhood.
On a personal level, it is especially important to me as an effeminate guy. Not because I “act out” or “emote” or play the “flaming queen”, etc. I am effeminate because that is who and what I am.
I never even realized I was effeminate until people started mocking me for how I gestured with my hands or how I pressed a package across my chest with my arms (egad, like a girl!) or how I settled my legs and hips in a feminine stance, etc. Even then, it was nothing I was in a position to change or tone down because I was simply moving and gesturing as my natural self.
Here in NYC, nobody seems to really care how I walk or how I toss my hand and wrist when responding to a question or comment, yet inevitably a store clerk or waiter or passer-by will give me an arched eyebrow or faint smirk.
The fact that I am gay and effeminate in no way lessens my manhood.
I am gay, I am effeminate, I am a man.
Great good fortune, Randall!!!