Dangerous Living: Coming Out in the Developing World
Dangerous Living is part of The Human Rights Watch Collection.
62 mins
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.
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
Shayla Sellars
Director of Photography
T. Jayashree
Director of Photography
Dan Hunt
Producer
Richard Davis
Editor
Michael Hanish
Editor
Scott Lehrer
Sound Designer
João Ferreira
Producer
Richard Davis
Associate Producer
John Scagliotti
Executive Producer
Dan Hunt
Project Manager
Reid Williams
Executive Producer
Don DiNicola
Original Music Composer
Abigail Moncrieff
Producer
Reid Williams
Producer
John Scagliotti
Writer
Erin Greenwell
Editor
Samora
Vocals
Darren Holden
Vocals
Don DiNicola
Music
Anat Salomon
Editor
John Parthum
Music
Isabelle de Rezende
Archival Footage Research
John Scagliotti
Director