Yony Leyser, director of the documentary about William S. Burroughs, is making a feature film about Berlin’s queer community, and he needs your help to crowdfund it. Over at Indiewire, Leyser explains his desire to deglamorize the city’s dark underground scene and explore what it means to be a member of a community whose definition is constantly in flux:
I go back and forth from being firmly committed to the “queer community” to being totally and completely disillusioned with the concept and diametrically opposed to it. Is there a community of people who have the same beliefs, that are fighting the common fight against oppression or is it just a bunch of angry queens that want spaces where they can cruise one another and gossip? Maybe a little bit of both?
