https://history.coateslibrary.com/files/original/da42b27c5274d11455f3ca6665f648e9.mp4 3d7b25f0b0cf4ad289b6080f8cc96809 Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parades Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource David Matias Papers Subject The topic of the resource David Matias Description An account of the resource This collection contains materials related to the poetry and playwriting of David Matias, an alumnus of Trinity University who died at an early age of AIDS. Much of his work deals with issues of identity, coming out, and his illness. Creator An entity primarily responsible for making the resource Matias, David, 1961-1996 Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Elizabeth Huth Coates Library Special Collections, Trinity University Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Materials in this collection are the intellectual property of Coates Library and Trinity University. Please contact the library for permission to reproduce or reuse these materials. Moving Image A series of visual representations imparting an impression of motion when shown in succession. Examples include animations, movies, television programs, videos, zoetropes, or visual output from a simulation. Transcription Any written text transcribed from a sound Parades The community of Jesus met to decide a theme for their float in the Chatham 4th of July parade. Church members stuck to self-righteousness like lint clung to the oscillating fan keeping them cool that summer evening. I bore witness to their pageant. Satan imprisons your soul. People behind bars, signs hung around their necks, name tags for sins: fornicator, thief, alcoholic, homosexual. They silenced the sidewalk spectators, who stopped waving their miniature American flags. I go somewhere else in those moments, this time to the gay games celebration. Sixty-four thousand of us in Yankee stadium, performing the wave like only gay men could: with full extension of the arms and wrists. Stonewall 25 hours we march, past the UN to central park. Suddenly movement stopped, the music went off, spectators from windows along the route became quiet. They watched another kind of wave. Tens of thousands stood in silence. Hands were held high forming ASL "I love you"s, a fist, a victory sign, or three fingers, because it was 3 p.m. and time to take pause. Manhattan froze for two minutes in the hot sun, everything draped in apparent stillness. We heard a pulse that was far away get closer and closer. Air conditioning engines, taxi motors, warehouse generators, train brakes below, boats on the Hudson. A cop standing, legs apart, at a sawhorse barrier looked around, then tilted his head down. A tide of reverence washed over the miles of mourners. We rained on ourselves, thinking, and thinking of all the friends dead from AIDS. I once heard a theologian scholar describe Jesus as the most female of men. I'm sure this parade gave him pride. Original Format The type of object, such as painting, sculpture, paper, photo, and additional data Video Duration Length of time involved (seconds, minutes, hours, days, class periods, etc.) 2 minutes 53 seconds Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Parades Description An account of the resource A clip of Matias reading “Parades,” a poem that dramatizes the disconnect between American conservative Christians who saw AIDS as punishment for sin and the thousands of gay men who suffered because of the disease. Source A related resource from which the described resource is derived David Matias Papers Publisher An entity responsible for making the resource available Elizabeth Huth Coates Library Special Collections, Trinity University Rights Information about rights held in and over the resource Materials in this collection are the intellectual property of Coates Library and Trinity University. Please contact the library for permission to reproduce or reuse these materials. Format The file format, physical medium, or dimensions of the resource video/mpeg Type The nature or genre of the resource moving image Identifier An unambiguous reference to the resource within a given context matias_fineartsworkcenter Activism AIDS Cultural Meaning Diagnosis sin