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The salt mines / film by Carlos Aparicio & Susana Aikin.
- Format:
- Video
- Series:
- Academic Video Online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Drug addicts--New York Metropolitan Area--Interviews.
- Drug addicts.
- Hispanic American gay people--New York Metropolitan Area--Interviews.
- Hispanic American gay people.
- Homeless persons--New York Metropolitan Area--Interviews.
- Homeless persons.
- Male prostitutes--New York Metropolitan Area--Interviews.
- Male prostitutes.
- Cross-dressers--New York Metropolitan Area--Interviews.
- Cross-dressers.
- Genre:
- Nonfiction films.
- Documentary films.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (45 min.).
- Place of Publication:
- San Francisco, CA : Frameline, 1997.
- Language Note:
- This edition in English and Spanish with English subtitles.
- Summary:
- The Salt Mines documents the lives of Sara, Gigi and Giovanna, three Latino transvestites who for years lived on the streets of Manhattan and supported their drug addictions through prostitution. They formed temporary homes inside broken garbage trucks kept next to the salt deposits used in the winter to melt the snow. The three friends share their makeshift home, "The Salt Mines," with a varied community of homeless people. Candid interviews raise issues of sexual identity, personal history and dreams. We follow their lives day and night until their community is closed and sealed by the city, forcing everyone to disperse into uncertain futures.
- Notes:
- Title from resource description page (viewed May 16, 2013).
- OCLC:
- 849672548
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