Films
WHEN THE BEAT DROPS
WHEN THE BEAT DROPS
Australian Premiere
7.00pm Friday 22nd February, 2019
Event Cinemas, Sydney City
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Co-presented by Groovescooter, Antenna and AGL for
Queer Screen’s Mardi Gras Film Festival
In the 1990s, black gay men in the South began mimicking the routines of J-setting female majorettes that they saw at college football games. As they took these thrusting, high energy moves onto the dance floors of gay clubs, they built a dynamic queer community that bucked society’s narrow definition of masculinity.
Central to the development of “bucking” was Anthony ‘Big Tony’ Davis, who is the beating heart of this documentary. When he and his legendary dance crew, Phi Phi find their bucking crown has slipped, there’s only one way to get it back – a jaw-dropping, seat-shaking battle for bucking supremacy!
