Unseen | May 27, 2006 | Comment on this video (4)

Otros Amores / Other Loves

JoeWilson
Take to the streets of Oaxaca, Mexico for an earful about other forms of love. VC2 producer, Joe Wilson won the Videomaker Challenge with this pod. The prize: a Sony HDR-FX1. Congrats Joe!
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  • kinolina
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      kinolina  
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    • Hi Joe, I'm a bit confused by your pod. I think you're sharing a sample of perspectives about homosexuality and sexual differences in Mexico, specifically in Oaxaca. However, I'm lacking context. What led you to make this pod? What makes this subject of interest? Why is the pod edited to pair the polarity of young gay men and their open perspectives against Oaxacan residents who express their homophobias? Is this part of a larger work you're producing?

      I find the subject of sexuality in Mexico interesting as it has evolved and changed in the past few decades. Sexual expression, and especially homosexuality trace a different trajectory than in other cultures and contexts.

      While this forum offers the possibility to dialogue on this subject, I think viewers -- and readers of this post -- can look forward to exploring this topic in detail in a few books of note:

      "The Night is Young: Sexuality in Mexico in the Time of AIDS" by Hector Carrillo (University of Chicago Press, 2001) offers insight to social changes and attitudes towards gender, sexuality (including homosexuality), and identity in contemporary Guadalajara
      (http://www.amazon.com/Night-Young-Sexuality-Chicago-Culture/dp/0226093034)

      "De Los Otros" by Joseph Carrier (Columbia University Press, 1995) -- a ground-breaking work of Carrier's field studies in Guadalajara with men who self-identify as gay or explore homosexual contact, same-sex studies in the Pacific region of Mexico in and around Guadalajara in the 1970s-80s. This chapter of male sexuality also reveals how this fits in traditional Mexican society on the cusp of change before the advent of AIDS, which is explored further in Carrillo's book. Carrier's book is also in paperback and available in Spanish.
      (http://www.amazon.com/Los-Otros-Joseph-Carrier/dp/0231096925/ref=sr_oe_1_1?ie=UT...)

      "Mema's House, Mexico City: On Transvestites, Queens, and Machos" by Annick Prieur (University of Chicago Press, 1998) offers an intimate portrait of the Norwegian sociologist's research within a working class community in Mexico City and the young men who negotiate identity, sexuality and gender in the larger class, cultural and national context.
      (http://www.amazon.com/Memas-House-Mexico-City-Transvestites/dp/0226682579/ref=sr...)

    • 3 years ago
  • TooPolitical
  • NOTOTHEWALL
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      NOTOTHEWALL  

    • Homosexuality is okay why ask ignorant people about it? It is unfortunate that currents mistake a set of video interviews (of five to six people) as a whole city or a whole country opinion. Why even make a point where is no point? In the other hand there is more to the subject that this very superficial level does not even talks about it. Oaxaca is the second most poor Mexican State where the educational levels are perhaps the lowest in the country! If you ask this and others questions raw in the street you will get the answers you need to make a broadcast point! Why do that and not something interesting then?

    • 4 years ago
  • adavis
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      adavis  

    • I guess because I live in SF, or I'm 26, I really forget that people still discriminate against homosexuals. I mean, everyone has AT LEAST a gay uncle, right?

    • 4 years ago
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