This film was made by a lover of mine at the time, Eli. It “stars” Eli, myself, and a friend of ours, Seeley. Eli and I met in the fall of 2001, soon after I had moved to San Francisco, at Queeruption 3: a 5-day anticapitalist gathering that included workshops, panels, performances, parties, screenings, and actions. And lots of sex. born queer, dear doctors reflects the Bay Area that I came up in as a young queer, which has lost much of its vitality and population due to gentrification caused by the tech boom. This five-minute film, preserved on VHS, was shot in 2002 or 2003, in Oakland, when I was twenty-two years old. I’ve been wanting to digitize it for a while, but hesitated to do so at the Graduate Center library due to the graphic nature of the content. Recently, I just threw a jacket over the screen and prayed for the best. And so, here we have it.

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