we went to the legendary gay fete bohemia, which has been going for 19 years every carnival sunday. it felt like an international black pride, with almost every caribbean nation representing among the 700 or so folks in attendance. trinidad has the most active queer scene of the english speaking islands, so folks come through from grenada, barbados, st. lucia... "dirty mas" is a traditional carnival ritual where people dance in the streets at dawn as dirty as possible - and yes, these gay bois know how to get dirty!
but wait, it wasn't only the people inside the parties getting down - just before daybreak, the whole nation pours into the street dancing up the sun. here we are jumoing up by the truck, which has music from the laventille rhythm section. apparently, a big trini rap/hipso group is made up of gay men, so every year, the truck passes by the gay party to pick up the bohemia folks... and here we are!
it's taking me a long time to get the videos online, but check out the scene at athe fete itself on my facebook video: http://www.facebook.com/home.php?ref=home#/video/video.php?v=65792401568
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