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  schema location: http://www.loc.gov/mods/v3 http://www.loc.gov/standards/mods/v3/mods-3-2.xsd
  title info:
    title: Woubi Cheri
  name:
    name part: Bocahut, Laurent
    name part: 1964-
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Brooks, Philip
    name part: 1953-2003
    role:
      role term: film director.
  name:
    name part: Kanopy (Firm)
  type of resource: moving image
  genre: videorecording
  genre: Internet videos.
  genre: Nonfiction films.
  genre: Documentary films.
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: cau
    date issued: 2015
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: fre
  physical description:
    form: remote
    extent: 1 online resource (1 video file, approximately 63 min.) : digital, .flv file, sound
  abstract: A cross-section of gender-bending pioneers describe in their own words their lives as homosexual Africans in Abijan. Woubi Chéri is the first film to give African homosexuals a chance to describe their world in their own words. Often funny, sometimes ribald, but always real, this documentary introduces us to gender pioneers demanding their right to construct a distinct African homosexuality. One needs a new language to create a new world; therefore this film begins with a vocabulary lesson. The main characters explain for us that a woubi is a male who chooses to play the role of "wife" in a relationship with another man. A yossi, is a bisexual man, perhaps married, who accepts the role of a woubi's husband. A toussou bakari is a lesbian. Controus are homophobes who oppose the woubia lifestyle. The film introduces us to a cross-section of Abidjan's woubi community. Vincent, an immigrant from Burkina Faso, is a traditional griot and sage. Laurent defied his father's wishes that he become an auto mechanic to open a patisserie in Abidjan. Bibiche and Tatiana are cross-dressing prostitutes. Barbara, a glamorous more mature transvestite, is the leader of the tight-knit group and President of the Ivory Coast Transvestites Association. Laurent recalls this community was like a new family. "Your real family was the one you created. Nobody had to hide anything." The transvestites once called themselves "bats" because they hide together during the day and came out only at night. Even now, Tatiana says, "It's not easy for us to go out in the daytime. They throw stones at us. It's not easy for us here in Africa...But it's our right to be different. Without the right to be different, Africa is going nowhere." With the support of their emerging community, Abidjan's woubis are beginning to claim their place in a changing Africa. Barbara explains "I do battle each time I'm out and about. I spread my magic powder to turn controus into yossis. It's like cleaning a house that is consta…
  note: Title from title frames.
  note: Originally produced by California Newsreel in 1998.
  note: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
  subject:
    geographic code: e-fr---
  subject:
    topic: Gays
    topic: Gay men
    topic: Social life and customs
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Abidjan
  subject:
    topic: Cross-dressers
    geographic: Africa
    geographic: Abidjan
  identifier: 1139791 Kanopy
  identifier: http://proxy.library.tamu.edu/login
  record info:
    record content source: UtOrBLW
    record creation date: 150429
    record change date: 20260324162703.1
    record identifier: in00003586409
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng