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Plot

After Stonewall director John Scagliotti approaches the issue of international gay rights in the documentary Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World. With the 2001 police raid on an Egyptian disco at its center, the film explores several global instances of mistreatment against homosexuals. Through interviews and personal accounts, Scagliotti finds human rights violations and other dire conditions in Honduras, Samoa, India, Namibia, Pakistan, and Vietnam. This film also includes a discussion of pop culture images, the Internet, and the progression of changing attitudes in some countries. Narrated by Janeane Garofalo, Dangerous Living was screened at the 2003 San Francisco Gay & Lesbian Film Festival.
MPAA Rating:
Not Yet Rated
Genre(s):
Documentary,Special Interest
Run Time:
70min.
Theatrical Release Date:
10/12/2003
DVD Release Date:
05/24/2005
Director(s):
John Scagliotti
Starring:
Janeane Garofalo
Themes:
Social Injustice
Tone:
Disturbing,Earnest,Forceful,Intimate,Poignant,Stirring
Keywords:
Central-America,Egypt,India (subcontinent),Kenya,Pakistan,Vietnam,bisexuality,coming-out,developing-nation,discrimination,gay/lesbian-rights,homophobia,homosexual,lesbianism,pop-culture,sexual-oppression,struggle,transgendered
Language:
English