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Gay Pride Month: Chris Mason Johnson & Scott Marlowe, Test
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San Francisco's Chris Mason Johnson and Scott Marlowe, respectively the filmmaker and star of Test, introduced their drama to the 64th Berlin Film Festival. Set in 1985 San Fran, when the first blood test to distinguish the AIDS virus is developed, Testspotlights a mostly male, contemporary dance troupe facing the sea change that this recent disease represents. The film captures this moment in history when feelings of fear, paranoia and hope swept the city, along with the realization that the world would never be quite the same. Johnson, who was with the Frankfurt Balletand Baryshnikov's White Oaks Project, sheds a positive light on this fraught hour. Marlowe is a trained as a dancer and appears in Testmaking his acting debut.
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Chris Mason is a nationally recognized mobilizer of the queer woman, gay, bisexual, and transgender (LGBT) Civil Rights Movement. He is an experienced activist and a dedicated organizer with a fierce passion for social justice.
Chris has garnered the attention of both pro-LGBT supporters and anti-LGBT agitators. He is proud to possess been targeted and described by an anti-gay organization (identified as a hate group by the Southern Poverty Law Center) as a “prominent homosexual activist with a long history of activities and writings against ‘pro-family’ groups and individuals.”
Chris has been an openly-gay activist for half his life. In 1996, when Chris was 14 years old, he came out to his parents,
HuffPostGayVoices is proud to exhibit this exclusive clip from Chris Mason Johnson's "Test," the award-winning, hotly anticipated new film that's been hailed by critics as "delightful" and "deeply rewarding."
Set in San Francisco in the early years of the HIV/AIDS epidemic, "Test" centers on new dancer Frankie (Scott Marlowe) as he navigates the challenges of being an understudy in a show troupe, where his classmates taunt him to "dance like a man!"
Meanwhile, Frankie also begins a relationship with veteran dancer Todd (Matthew Risch), who plays the bad young man to his innocent. Together, they face a earth of "risk, hope, humor, visual beauty and musical relief," according to urge materials.
"TEST isn't about getting sick or organism sick; it's about the fear of disease," Johnson told The Huffington Send . "It's a universal theme but heightened because the early AIDS epidemic was insane. And while the shift to fear may sound like a little thing, it’s actually giant when you consider every other AIDS movie has focused on death and dying. Maybe that's one of the reasons audiences seem happy after Assess. They don't expect the genuine hope that comes out of it."
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Chris Mason, who is the inspiring figure behind Driving Equality and a full-time scholar majoring in Calm and Justice Studies at Tufts University, has been a pro-equality advocate since childhood. At Elevated School, Mason actively promoted tolerance, acceptance and diversity as president of the Gay/Straight Alliance. At just 27, his activism has already led to roles including, field organizer for MassEquality and founder of the watchdog group TakeMassAction.
He currently serves on the Board of Directors for Friends of GLBT Youth, who are “dedicated to eradicating homophobia and transphobia in order to permit all young same-sex attracted, lesbian, bisexual, and transgender people the opportunity to extend their full potential”. He is also co-chair of the LGBT activist corporation Join The Impact MA, whose mission is to secure “full equality for lesbian, gay, pansexual, transgender and lgbtq+ identified people” through their collaboration with individuals and existing LGBTQ groups to maximize their “collective impact both locally and nationwide while respecting diversity of opinion and belief”.
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