Emily Greene & Her Cat Princess at The Pagoda

In the mid-1980s, Emily Greene began making videotapes as part of her work at the Florida School for the Deaf and Blind. “I loved filming from the first time I got my hands on a camera,” she recalls. Soon she was videotaping her close relatives and chosen families, which included the legendary Pagoda community in St. Augustine, Florida, and the Alapine community in Alabama where she lived for 22 years. She also taped lesbian and gay gatherings wherever she traveled.  Emily grew up in Massachusetts and Washington, DC. Her father was an engineer, her mother a teacher. She has one sister, a writer. In her late twenties, she put herself through nursing school, and she worked as a nurse in a variety of contexts for many years.  Since 2013 Emily has been living in Western Massachusetts. Retired from nursing, she is active in numerous social justice organizations.  Her collection comprises almost fifty films, tapes, and dvds, including a few Super 8s shot by her father.  Highlights include a tour of The Pagoda, several Pagoda concerts and parties, and the 1994 & 1998 Gay Games.