Movie screening examines violence and LGBTQs
by Yasmin Nair
2008-05-28
http://www.windycitymediagroup.com/gay/lesbian/news/ARTICLE.php?AID=18457The Center on Halsted's Anti-Violence Project and the National Coalition of Anti-Violence Programs recently hosted a roundtable and regional training sessions. These included a public screening of the documentary, Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World, May 22. It was one of three events at the Center that week that examined violence and the LGBTQ community.
The film centers around the Cairo 52 case of 2001, where a number of men were arrested after a trip on an Egyptian floating houseboat. Dangerous Living argues that the case created a global gay consciousness about "a planetary minority." It includes interviews with queer activists in countries as disparate as Pakistan, Malaysia, and the Honduras.
