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Linda Simpson and The Drag Explosion | CUNY TV Digital Series: Merlin’s People Like Me!
CUNY TV and Merlin’s People Like Me! celebrate Pride 2022, with our special guest, Linda Simpson, a chronicler of the 1980s and 90s Downtown Night Life Scene centered around the famed Pyramid Club. We met up for the interview at the Bureau of General Services--Queer Division, where we found our copy of The Drag Explosion, located in The Gay, Lesbian, Bisexual and Transgender Community Center on West 13th Street, in New York City.
The Drag Explosion was originally imagined as a slide show and has turned into a Coffee Table Book must have, with page after page of photos from a legendary time in the New York City Drag Scene.
It all began when Linda Simpson purchased an inexpensive drug store camera and began taking photos of friends who inhabited her world - Lady Bunny, Sweetie Nyc, Mona Foot, Tabboo, RuPaul and many others jump off the pages of The Drag Explosion, becoming a portal to another time while introducing us to the Night Life personalities that helped create the drag scene we see today.
Please join us as Linda Simpson describes life during The Drag Explosion.
Tape date: 03/29/2022 First air date: 06/01/2022
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Message for Merlin - Paul | CUNY TV Digital Series: Merlin’s People Like Me!
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Merlin’s People Like Me! called on friends and allies to send Velfies (Video Selfies) describing their lives, their hopes and dreams during the Pandemic. In this episode Paul Causey takes the moment to honor his mother, as he recalls his early work with HIV/AIDS awareness programs in San Francisco and his more recent work with the LGBTQI community in Asia-Pacific. (Taped: 04/14/2021) DSMP03004
Message for Merlin-Ole & Jessie & Bejay & Michele | CUNY TV Digital Series: Merlin’s People Like Me!
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Merlin’s People Like Me! called on friends and allies to send Velfies (Video Selfies) describing their lives, their hopes and dreams during the Pandemic. In this episode documentary filmmaker, Ole Erle, discovers where he is going on his next vacation; while Jessie Rodriguez from the band The Loneliers talks music; Bejay Rose surprises us with his new album - ‘Liebe Ihn;’ and artist illustrator...
Message for Merlin: Gerardo & Daniel & Jed | CUNY TV Digital Series: Merlin’s People Like Me!
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Merlin’s People Like Me! called on friends and allies to send Velfies (Video Selfies) describing their lives, their hopes and dreams during the Pandemic. In this episode, Gerardo Cotto lists things he missed and some he didn’t in lockdown, while Daniel J. Cartier encourages us to celebrate together, and Jed Schwartz shares his thoughts of life on hold. (Taped: 04/05/2021) DSMP03002
Message for Merlin: Michael & Bobby & AL | CUNY TV Digital Series: Merlin’s People Like Me!
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Merlin’s People Like Me! called on friends and allies to send Velfies (Video Selfies) describing their lives, their hopes and dreams during the Pandemic. In this episode, The Man of 1001 Faces, Michael McQuary, demonstrates #YourEssenceInSeconds; as poet/photographer Bobby Miller announces his next show: Fabulous! photographs from Studio 54 Redux; while Brooklyn TransCore Veteran Al Rosenberg m...
Merlin's "Protect Your Face Test" | Merlin’s People Like Me
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CUNY TV’s Merlin’s People Like Me! attempts to answer the question, "How do we demonstrate the importance of wearing a mask during a Pandemic?" in Merlin’s "Protect Your Face Test," a short three and a half minute informative video. (Taped: 11/23/2020) DSMP02001 V1
Interview with Alan Nero | Short Docs
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Sitting in the middle of an empty movie theater, Alan Nero describes how his father was able to transform an old building into a community landmark located in the small mountain town of Wilmet, Connecticut. The Gilson Cafe and Cinema, currently closed because of the pandemic, is the subject of Alan’s short film COVIDEO, a story about a father and a son, and their efforts to lift a town’s spirit...
COVIDEO - Short Film | Short Docs
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Amid the Covid-19 pandemic, a father and son find a new way to make a town smile. Directed by Alan Nero. Alan Nero is a Brooklyn College Senior of the Television Radio and Emerging Media Department and a New York author. As a student, he's served as a co-writer for the Unproductive and All In Favor web series. In multimedia, he has created and produced the short films Dead and Covideo. As well ...
Interview with Girard Tecson | Short Docs
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Filipino filmmaker Girard Tecson’s relentless passion for storytelling took his short film, “This Moment,” to the Cannes Film Festival. The story recreates the hurdles of a young man living the same day over and over again until he makes the right choice. In his intimate short documentary, “The Gift of Life,” Girard describes the challenges of his Nepalese friend, Prasha Tuladar, who suffered f...
The Gift of Life - Short Film | Short Docs
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Girard Tecson's short film "The Gift of Life" describes the challenges and triumphs of Prasha Tuladar, a Nepalese woman who suffered from a rare disease that forced her to live with an oxygen tank and was told that she would only survive after a lung transplant. In the middle of her health crisis, bound by tanks and tubes, Prasha gave birth to a baby, relying on her family's care and support to...
Interview with Tian Leng | Short Docs
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Chinese filmmaker Tian Leng shares his journey from Changzhou to New York City through photography and film. His video "Yuan Lin," about the New York Chinese Scholar's Garden, gives an intimate look at a fascinating traditional Chinese building located at the Staten Island Botanical Garden. Tian's short documentary "Dear Friend Chinatown" explores the casual encounters between the filmmaker and...
Dear Friend Chinatown - Short film | Short Docs
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Tian Leng's short documentary "Dear Friend Chinatown" is an intimate visual essay in the form of a video postcard written to a friend. The film explores the casual encounters between the Chinese filmmaker and everyday life in New York's Chinatown. Shopkeepers, old neighbors, and monks mingle with worldwide visitors in a vivid microcosm of culture, food, and religion. "Dear Friend Chinatown" has...
Interview with Astrid Perez | Short Docs
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After arriving in NYC from the Dominican Republic, Astrid Perez's career as a fashion model took off at the time when she was pursuing a degree in film production at the Brooklyn College Film Department. Saving her income as a model helped her finance her thesis film "Agua' panty," a comedy about love potions shot in Santo Domingo. The effort paid off and the film went on to win the Best Direct...
Agua 'e Panty - Short film - Directed by Astrid Perez | Short Docs
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“Agua ‘e Panty,” Panty Water, is an award-winning short comedy from Brooklyn College Film Department graduate Astrid Perez. It tells the story of Yudelkis, a gold digger from the Dominican Republic. When Yudelkis loses her sugar daddy, she wants to get him back by any means. So she visits a Santera priest, who sells her a magic spell, but ‘easy solutions’ come with their own complications. The ...
Short Docs | Quest for Energy - Short Film
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Vinit Parmar’s short film “Quest for Energy” inspires the viewer to think about energy consumption and live a way of life that decreases environmental impact. While 1.3 Billion people in the world still live without electricity, Indian communities residing in the Sundarbans, the largest mangrove wetland forest in the world, have found sustainable ways to produce energy without a carbon footprin...
Interview with Eugene Marlow | Short Docs
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Interview with Eugene Marlow | Short Docs
Short Docs | Zikkaron/Kristallnacht: A Family Story - Short Film
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Short Docs | Zikkaron/Kristallnacht: A Family Story - Short Film
Short Docs | Interview with Ali Reza Khoshkjan
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Short Docs | Interview with Ali Reza Khoshkjan
Short Docs | “The Banned” - Short Film
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Short Docs | “The Banned” - Short Film
Interview with Julienne Verdi | Short Docs
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Interview with Julienne Verdi | Short Docs
Short Docs | Staten Island's Huddled Masses - Short Film
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Short Docs | Staten Island's Huddled Masses - Short Film
From My Point Of View | CUNY TV Digital Series Special
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From My Point Of View | CUNY TV Digital Series Special
Interview with Vivian Rivas | Short Docs
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Interview with Vivian Rivas | Short Docs
Before Stonewall & A Salute to the Pride Parade | Stonewall @ 50
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Before Stonewall & A Salute to the Pride Parade | Stonewall @ 50
Short Docs | Ebb Tide - Short film
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Short Docs | Ebb Tide - Short film
‘The Unstoppable’ - Interviews | Short Docs
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‘The Unstoppable’ - Interviews | Short Docs
‘The Unstoppable’ - Short film | Short Docs
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‘The Unstoppable’ - Short film | Short Docs
American Theater After Stonewall & Intergenerational Storytelling | Stonewall @ 50
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American Theater After Stonewall & Intergenerational Storytelling | Stonewall @ 50
Interview Patrick G. Lee | Short Docs
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Interview Patrick G. Lee | Short Docs
Unspoken: LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander Stories - Short Film | Short Docs
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Unspoken: LGBTQ Asian Pacific Islander Stories - Short Film | Short Docs

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24
    @bobbyrayofthefamilysmith24 12 днів тому

    Cap a tan birdseye 9000

  • @user-bm6cv4of3k
    @user-bm6cv4of3k 24 дні тому

    This family is not the only one that's gone through stuff due to these drugs that the government allows in and brings in we don't grow heroin here we don't have cocaine plants here most of these people don't have money to even get this stuff until it is brought here people need to wake the f****** and see what's going on then they make money off US housing us continually keeping us in the cycle it's sick and meanwhile families and children suffer there are places and rehabilitation that would help him number one find your higher power God in the name of Jesus I pray for this family and all and mine as well I'm a recovered addict alcoholic and I've done time myself working on stuff everyday without the hard drugs without the booze it's not easy and I give the Lord everyday and tell them I love them and some days I just don't want to even be hereI'm divorced after 25 years my wife committed adultery I didn't get f***** up this time I didn't go beat her up or go beat up the other dude I gave it to God and went to church got a second job and I just got out of surgery disabilities behind and I lost my partial so some of my teeth are missing I don't feel like I'm on top of the world but I'm pushing everyday to survive for my children so they see we can make change the name of Jesus bless us all amen

  • @richarddouglas1712
    @richarddouglas1712 2 місяці тому

    Awesome video! Thank you 👍

  • @dietmarborchert6664
    @dietmarborchert6664 3 місяці тому

    What a beautiful, sad video, clear photography plus an almost poetic commentary. Fascinating Arthur Kill! Besides those bigger wrecks there are lots of lifeboats, discarded equally long ago, each with their own story. What ships may they have come from, and where did they all end? Thank you for this wonderful video!

  • @slikkrikk9487
    @slikkrikk9487 4 місяці тому

    Shout out to my old Cambodian neighbors from 193 and Decatur 💪🏽💪🏽. Most of them are gone now. I wonder where they went.

  • @stephanieg4950
    @stephanieg4950 4 місяці тому

    Anneke u are so inspiring. It s relieving to see a hurt person who heals can become sane again, and heal others. Beautiful. Marshall Burtcher talks about how to heal from codependency in a non popular approach id say...he discerns between using self esteem and self worth. He teaches pple how to find their inteinsic self worth and sense of self. I just thought to mention that for me, i never knew what esteem meant. I still struggle with it. He explains why he doesnt use that word. Without a sense of self it s like we have holes and we seek external validation to fill them to find self and safety (usually from lack of being able to mimic caregiver coz of neglect). Intrinsic value and self identity (which is of course fragmented and complex), and connection to these is maybe what others call esteem. Anyway just found it interesting.

  • @Earth_to_Kensho...ComeInKensho
    @Earth_to_Kensho...ComeInKensho 4 місяці тому

    This is strength

  • @tonyguida4484
    @tonyguida4484 5 місяців тому

    Wonderful a real joy to view !

  • @robertogutierrezr7532
    @robertogutierrezr7532 5 місяців тому

    It is high time to make a film on the rapid transformation of the Yucatan Peninsula, Cristina

  • @kitsunegiblaze8022
    @kitsunegiblaze8022 6 місяців тому

    Bro listened to ICP but apparently didn't catch any of the messages about not being a bigot.....

  • @mana_beast_beats1114
    @mana_beast_beats1114 6 місяців тому

    If you listen to ICP's music and you come away from it thinking "I should become a racist, I should become a homophobe" you missed the point and you obviously didn't listen very hard to the lyrics, cuz J and Shaggs aren't down with any of that... ICP don't want you as their fan anymore than Kurt from Nirvana would want homophobes and bigots as his fans....

  • @hemanag1020
    @hemanag1020 6 місяців тому

    Sick how she casually talks about robbing natives as long as 20% went back to the slave masters. For a so called expert she speaks in quite shallow terms. Im a New Zealand maori with an interest in Atlantis and the refugees who moved to south central north america, and i did not learn one new thing from this flake. I had a book once that showed what was happening during colonial era, in one day, a spanish priest had the right hands cut off 12000 natives to discourage theft. Funny how their sick barbaric practices are never mentioned, but this half intelligent person spent more time talkin about the conquistadores. I have zero faith in mainstream academia, they simply lie, lie and lie some more, to assert a narrative, that the natives needed civilising, whilst in this same period, the so called civilised english would throw their buckets of shit out their windows, bathing was frowned upon, children were randomly sold by Parents just for money, children in england filled many jobs. Our Maori leaders went to uk in mid 1800s to have our indigenous rights asserted after colonisers came to nz and lied lied lied, upon returning home to nz, our leaders said that the english were uncivilised barbarians who did not practice cleanliness, cared not for their children, and revered royalty who never stood and fought with their people. The only mistake our ancestors made in dealing with brit burocrasy was they trusted those in authority to speak the truth as dishonesty and lieing would never be considered by men of integrity and bravery. Forked tongue is an insult to snakes, one of the revered creatures in the pantheon of ancient advanced civilisations.

  • @---io7us
    @---io7us 7 місяців тому

    Thank you Anneke for your deep, beautiful,... heart. I am very sorry but same time very grateful for your indescribable suffering. I feel that through your suffering I am always liberate from my life's ignorance and arrogance into deep humility and awareness of True unconditional love. Thank you forever

  • @user-qm8bc4bu1t
    @user-qm8bc4bu1t 7 місяців тому

    Big bang was lemaitre's. His work was a lot more accurate than lemaitre's.

  • @rhgamecock1
    @rhgamecock1 8 місяців тому

    Great story.

  • @Handy-Chanda1970
    @Handy-Chanda1970 8 місяців тому

    wonderful young lady

  • @lesduffey6032
    @lesduffey6032 9 місяців тому

    Only that wasn't your Dad in that photo. Thats Curtis Price.

  • @eshikaudayanawanigasekara
    @eshikaudayanawanigasekara 9 місяців тому

    ❤ from Sri Lanka

  • @Jimtom933
    @Jimtom933 9 місяців тому

    That mother is a strong woman. What an awesome testimony.

  • @mr.v2689
    @mr.v2689 9 місяців тому

    What’s the name of the music playing in the background?

  • @WePlinkHigh
    @WePlinkHigh 10 місяців тому

    Alphabet Club

  • @palmarosa-y5p
    @palmarosa-y5p 10 місяців тому

    A t’elle des cicatrices des preuves sur le corps ?

  • @BERSERKER-1313
    @BERSERKER-1313 Рік тому

    I really love this, I come from similar background, this a beautiful story.🤙🏼

  • @canuck21
    @canuck21 Рік тому

    Not all Asians are the same. The model minority is real. The problem with this stupid report it that it puts all Asians in the same basket. No, the model minority are the East Asians, not the South East Asians.

  • @fo978
    @fo978 Рік тому

    I love seeing this. We need more stories of our brothers making it home to their families. This goes for all races in CDC and in prisons across the country.

  • @booytoyy69
    @booytoyy69 Рік тому

    What about his past as a racist he definitely was a member. I don't like that he could just lie about his life like that they don't just take pictures with just anyone It's okay to denounce everything but it's not okay to lie. Too many people died behind the game that you were in the numbers that you were a part of I would never feel safe around someone like that

  • @j.freeman2513
    @j.freeman2513 Рік тому

    Use condoms. Worst people breed for numbers, knowing their young will be culled by the same system that institutionalized them. Quit it

  • @dontXtheGunLine
    @dontXtheGunLine Рік тому

    Another group of individuals divided and conquered by yhe government

  • @patriciamartin6756
    @patriciamartin6756 Рік тому

    Oh those immigration people back then. What they succeeded in doing was producing a present day generation of mediocre people, spoiled, entitled Karen's with no special abilities or talents. No artistic ability, no opera, a nation of people whose idea of fine dining is cheeseburgers and pizza

  • @patriciamartin6756
    @patriciamartin6756 Рік тому

    Ah yes, America land of mediocrity--eating cheeseburgers,fries, pizza, hooking up online,STD'S ,,weirdos who are not sure if they are men or women, special pronouns, no culture, America where people need Oprah Winfrey to think for them. Americans cannot even protest when the government strip away their rights by changing the laws because Americans don't care. I want to live in Europe not here. Thanks Grandma for being stupid enough to leave the beautiful country you were born into come here. You are q BIG LOSER!

  • @jesusalvarez5663
    @jesusalvarez5663 Рік тому

    Many gems and art are being returned back to their own countries. It’s time for Mexico to get what’s theirs.

  • @GaiusPompay
    @GaiusPompay Рік тому

    Back in his time.... Nazi lowriders AB MEXICAN MAFIA Was the real deal. All three of those prison gangs were in their PRIME. This dude WAS somebody or at least well connected.

  • @teovu5557
    @teovu5557 Рік тому

    cambodians arent south asians lmao

    • @Eggheadedbabymom
      @Eggheadedbabymom 5 місяців тому

      They're South East Asians. I see you all over making ignorant comments lol. Must be a wannabe Khmer.

  • @Albert-the-Astro
    @Albert-the-Astro Рік тому

    Killer Biker Jacket!

  • @giovannimarino7449
    @giovannimarino7449 Рік тому

    This was great glad you got better i to used herion ,coke devils drug for sure never rhought id go down path i did years just fly by iys scary and then you look back and you feel dizzy.

  • @genecps
    @genecps Рік тому

    Wish your family the best

  • @kdchhy2252
    @kdchhy2252 Рік тому

    I'm so sorry they had to live in those ghetto apartments. They seemed worser than ours in the bay area. Infested with rats and roaches most likely. Those can cause diseases

  • @delanoferrer3181
    @delanoferrer3181 Рік тому

    Good video

  • @jacobmyrick2961
    @jacobmyrick2961 Рік тому

    It ain't about hang em high. It's about hold em higher. You understand the difference?

  • @jacobmyrick2961
    @jacobmyrick2961 Рік тому

    Stay invalidated. I self mitigate to express myself

  • @leevancleef358
    @leevancleef358 Рік тому

    Famous Picture at 7:51...Dad was right behind Michael Thompson! I always wondered who some of the other dudes are in that pic..2 shirtless dudes on left look like Badasses - anyone know who they are? Also - is that TD Bingham in bottom left? Dad must have got on the roids in jail too because in some of his pics in here he looks jacked! Glad he turned his life around! This was very well done and I wish your family peace!

  • @acommonground5325
    @acommonground5325 Рік тому

    How do I contact you to share my story?

  • @TruRaidersG
    @TruRaidersG Рік тому

    The bronx was crazy in the 80s and 90s. Cambodians been through some ruff ghettos in New York, and New York state. Queen, Bronx, Flatbush, Syracuse, and Utica. Some tuff as ghetto in NewYork

  • @unovisioncreate1349
    @unovisioncreate1349 Рік тому

    his girlfriend definitely would kill with him

  • @unovisioncreate1349
    @unovisioncreate1349 Рік тому

    I’m glad he is in hell now

  • @lieulieubear1407
    @lieulieubear1407 Рік тому

    I’ve notice that Khmer always gets the back hand if things it ducks that’s why it was hard for us to strive because the hatred and discriminative society smh but now we are strivingyesssss amen we need Khmer pride🇰🇭

  • @montgomeryvandenburg
    @montgomeryvandenburg Рік тому

    Awesome james !

  • @kml223
    @kml223 Рік тому

    Linda Simpson is so beautiful

  • @Clearview718
    @Clearview718 Рік тому

    She basically looks like a Dominican with Asian features but sound Puerto Rican 😂

    • @Eggheadedbabymom
      @Eggheadedbabymom 5 місяців тому

      Um no she just looks Cambodian lol.

    • @Clearview718
      @Clearview718 5 місяців тому

      @@Eggheadedbabymomu clearly don’t know wtf I’m talking about lol

    • @Eggheadedbabymom
      @Eggheadedbabymom 5 місяців тому

      @@Clearview718 Stu pid

  • @184876ela
    @184876ela Рік тому

    THE MOM DESERVES A MEDAL WITH ALL THE CRAP SHE ENDURED