Trailer: 'Making Sweet Tea' -- a Feature Length Documentary about the Lives and Loves of Southern Gay Black Men

 'Making Sweet Tea is a documentary film that chronicles the journey of southern-born, Black gay researcher and performer, E. Patrick Johnson, as he travels home to North Carolina to come to terms with his past, and to Georgia, New Orleans, and Washington, D.C. to reconnect with six black gay men he interviewed for the book, Sweet Tea: Black Gay Men of the South—An Oral History. Johnson transformed that book into several staged plays over the course of a decade. The film combines documentary moments from the men’s lives a decade after the publication of the book and from Johnson’s life, depicting both how the men have changed and been changed by the book and play. The film also covers the complexities of Johnson’s relationships with the men, with his family, and with his hometown in western North Carolina, and is done in collaboration with anthropologist and documentary filmmaker, John L. Jackson, Jr.'
Making Sweet Tea (Trailer) from Sweet Tea on Vimeo.