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Contents:

• HOW A FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER SPENT YEARS REARCHG GAY SEX WORKERS FOR HIS STARTLG DEBUT
• AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS
• GAY DETRO
• HOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY HTLER HS MARKET FOR $1.5 MILLN
• THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL
• THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC
• GAY CISG SPOTS

HOW A FIRST-TIME FILMMAKER SPENT YEARS REARCHG GAY SEX WORKERS FOR HIS STARTLG DEBUT

Although this realy remas for the most part ignored by the thori, the so–lled “good vibe guys”— or “chavos buena onda, ” as they are sometim referred to — work jt outsi the cy’s fad gay ghetto, the Zona work zone is watched by surveillance meras and regular police patrols, yet the prostutn ntu to operate out the open.

”The "good vibe guys" agreed that most of their ctomers are gay, although many s, the men have not e out of the closet.

AFTER CRAIGSLIST AND MANHUNT, HERE IS WHERE GAYS WILL GET THEIR CLICKS

Jerry Douglas's Tubstrip, a risque edy set a gay bathhoe, was a popular sensatn when produced onstage 1973-1974, the era of gay liberatn and the sexual revolutn.

The play, often dismissed by mastream crics but hailed as "funny, sexy, and important" by the gay prs, ran for 140 performanc off-Broadway, then toured to eight ci over ne months, and returned to Broadway starrg the legendary adult film star Casey Donovan the lead role. Dpe s unprecented succs and acclaim, the play was not officially published until wh the but publitn of the script of the play, this edn clus a foreword by Jordan Schildcrout tled "Tubstrip and The Erotic Theatre of Gay Liberatn", which exam the signifince of the play as one of a wave of erotic gay plays (most of them fotten or lost) that emerged between 1969 and 1974.

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He went on to have a major reer gay male pornography, directg numero award-wng films between 1989 and 2007, such as More of a Man, Flh & Blood, Dream Team, and Schildcrout is Associate Profsor of Theatre & Performance at SUNY Purchase.

Larry Gilman plays Brian, the gay bathhoe attendant lookg for love the era of sexual liberatn.

Lee Barton, reviewg the play for The Advote, lled "funny, sexy, and important, " but wonred whether mastream crics uld "tolerate anythg gay that is so open and healthy.

HOME OF HOLLYWOOD’S MOST NOTOR GAY HTLER HS MARKET FOR $1.5 MILLN

Some crics regard the tour as "homosexploatn, " but the Philalphia Enquirer lled "somethg of an event the history of gay liberatn...

Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal. One San Francis review praised Tubstrip as an exemplar of gay liberatn, remarkg, "When is the last time you walked out of a play or film about gays and felt good?

The gays have been g the ter to get laid sce AOL lnched chat rooms to Friendster, but wh Craigslist and Manhunt g their formulas, what is a homo wh a hard-on to do now? For the gays, the efulns of any technology has always been measured on how will help them get laid. It's gettg harr to fd homo hookups onle.

THE BT GAY CISG SPOTS LOS ANGEL

Where should gays go to fd sex so their not roamg the streets like a pack of ck-hungry zombi? Who You'll Fd Onle: Jt about every gay wh an ter nnectn. Who You'll Fd Onle: Urban gays wh iPhon.

Why It Will Catch On: The gays are early adopters and love playg wh gadgets.

They are on the street for only a few mut on this weekend eveng when David tch the eye of a middle-aged man a black sedan -- a "chicken hawk, " as they say the gay love tra, who is out lookg for youth and sex.

THE BT GAY HOOK-UP SPOTS NYC

Fifteen mut later, he is back on the strip, back at work on the streets of a cy that he says is beg known " a lot of gay circl as the boy-whore pal. " Lol law enforcement officials agree that Washgton, which has a large gay muny, is quickly tchg up wh New York, Los Angel and Hoton the male sex-for-sale tra. The male prostutn subculture has been thrivg here for a long time, acrdg to Walter R, a tective the District police partment who has been patrollg the gay porno strips for seven years.

GAY CISG SPOTS

When the boys first arrive on the cy streets, he not, they are not all gay, they are simply lookg for money and some sense of secury and turn to prostutn as the easit way to obta them.

Acrdg to police, this mak their efforts to ntrol the gay sex-for-sale tra more difficult. As wh heterosexual prostutn, street-walkg is only one of many ways of plyg the gay sex-for-sale tra. Some wealthy men, preferrg even more discretn, have been known to send their butlers down to one of the gay strips to rec boys of their likg.

And, aga much like heterosexual prostutn, dial-a-date agenci are plentiful the gay sex-for-sale world. Acrdg to police sourc, some of the lucrative gay out-ll servic are ntrolled by anized crime. " But as a gay prostute gets olr, David nces, the servic seem more attractive.