Movie Details
Original Language:English
Gay Boy We Do Not Go Extinct
DirectorAaron Pollard
8 minDocumentary
Plot
A video dealing with the experience of a despised body focusing specifically on the queer male subject grappling with societal attitudes towards the homosexual in the context of the AIDS crisis The phrase We do not go instinct is lifted from a Lynda Barry cartoon and is indicative of the way the video shifts between humour rage despair and resistance In its appropriation and critique of popularized AIDS images the video points to the lack of oppositional queer subject positions within the mainstream media AIDS discourse
