Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World
Directed by John Scagliotti
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A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.Read moreLess
A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.
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A feature-length documentary that explores the immense changes that occurred for gays, lesbians and transgender people living in the Global South. In the last decade of the 20th Century, a new heightened visibility began spreading throughout the developing world and the battles between families, fundamentalist religions, and governments around sexual and gender identity had begun. But in the West, few people knew about this historic social upheaval, until 52 men on Cairo’s Queen Boat discothèque were arrested for crimes of debauchery. That explosive story focused attention to the lives and trials of gay people coming out in the developing world and the film chronicles those events.
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Janeane GarofaloNarrator (voice)Explore the crew
- Director of Photography
- Dan Hunt
- Director of Photography
- Anat Salomon
- Director of Photography
- Adnan Ali
- Director of Photography
- Wendy Wallas
- Director of Photography
- John Hanlon
- Director of Photography
- Michael Hanish
- Director of Photography
- Janet Baus
- Director of Photography
- Shayla Sellars
- Director of Photography
- T. Jayashree
- Producer
- Dan Hunt
- Editor
- Richard Davis
- Editor
- Michael Hanish
- Producer
- João Ferreira
- Producer
- Janet Baus
- Original Music Composer
- Don DiNicola
- Producer
- Abigail Moncrieff
- Producer
- Reid Williams
- Writer
- John Scagliotti
- Editor
- Erin Greenwell
- Editor
- Anat Salomon
- Director
- John Scagliotti