Pedro Lemebel, the writer and visual artist, defeated a marginal childhood to become one of the first to shake up Chile? | dG1fNkRnZzhTdkVGODA
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00:00A film by
00:12Before the artist, there is even the homosexual.
00:15We claim the coliseum.
00:17We don't like the word gay.
00:19It doesn't fit with what it is.
00:21A poor homosexual in Chile.
00:25In the year 87, 88,
00:28there was a dictatorship.
00:30That context was brutal.
00:32Homosexual murders in the streets,
00:35burnt alive, like rats.
00:41Any minority that is fighting for their rights
00:45will be categorized as violent.
00:47Because it is part of the struggle.
00:55If that homosexual has AIDS,
00:57if that homosexual is a third-worlder,
00:59if that homosexual is poor,
01:01if that homosexual is indigenous,
01:03they kill him.
01:07The performance was the leap into the void.
01:20You told me to film you.
01:24That I shouldn't stop doing it.
01:27A film by