Community Corner
French Documentary Filming in Boystown During Pride Fest
With France recently passing gay marriage, a documentary film maker is headed to Boystown during it's most pride-filled week to film what makes the neighborhood tick.
Written by Anthony Morgano
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Boystown and Chicago's Gay Pride will be broadcast to an international audience as the subject of a 52-minute documentary for France M6, also known as Metropole Television, one of the leader television channels in France.
This year's expansion of Pride to span the entire week between Pride Fest on June 22-23 and the Parade on Sunday, June 30 caught the attention of Aurore Belser, who wants to showcase the spirit of Boystown to the world.
"As you may know, the law about the same-sex marriage in France has just passed—the first gay marriage in France is today!" Belser told ChicagoPride.com on Wednesday May 29, when Vincent Austin and Bruno Boileau became the first gay couple in France to marry. "So it is interesting to show the first nationally recognized LGBT neighborhood in the United-States, tell its history, how it has become one of 'the places to be' in Chicago and how it is organized."
Belser and his team aims to explore the history Boystown—how it came to be and how it has evolved—as well as to depict the gayborhood today. Belsar wants to show Boystown both by day and by night, focusing on our famous nightlife, restaurants, entertainers and special events as well as our community organizations and programs and the everyday life of the residents of Boystown.
Read the rest of this article on ChicagoPride.com.
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