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Contents:

• GAY SNOWBOARR MAK VIO, 'GERMAN SSAGE,' THE NU SHOWG HIS SKILLS
• ‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945
• ‘SSAGE PARTY’: ORGY OF UPSET FROM FRENCH CATHOLIC, ANTI-GAY GROUPS OVER PG RATG
• TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

GAY SNOWBOARR MAK VIO, 'GERMAN SSAGE,' THE NU SHOWG HIS SKILLS

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.

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.

‘COULDN’T BELIEVE I WAS SEEG ’: HOME MOVI OFFER RARE GLIMPSE OF GAY LIFE ST. LOUIS 1945

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?

(As an advote for gay rights, Mike also stalled a butthole Flhlight to a mural of a naked man, but someone stole that toy. And although Gay Aaron revealed ltle to me about his personal life, he regularly viss the Ssage Castle to tox om dgs, so I prume he's gog through his own sh, jt like all the other tenants and Kace the bedroom Mike lls "the treehoe"Although the first Ssage Castle served as a bro pad, today's rnatn revolv around the needs of women, gay men, and veterans. Daniel Rajcsanyi, who go by "Dani, " is a 20-year-old openly gay German snowboarr om Munich and a ee spir.

‘SSAGE PARTY’: ORGY OF UPSET FROM FRENCH CATHOLIC, ANTI-GAY GROUPS OVER PG RATG

" He said he do not know of any other openly gay snowboarrs and hop that wh the vio he "ma a ltle step forward.

Dozens of gay men gather for a pool party a seclud spot Hillsboro, Missouri.

Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weavg the films to a documentary, “Gay Home Movie. ” It offers a rare glimpse to a largely visible world, a time when same-sex relatnships were not only looked at as immoral — they were a gay man, Story is fascated by the brtle, flickerg scen that clu a uniformed World War II soldier kissg another man.

TELL: AN INTIMATE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE MILARY

Louis’ ‘hairdrser to the stars’Watch a clip om the 1945 home movi of gay men at a pool stumbled upon the films the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an tate sale.

”‘I kept my inty separate’Richard Eaton talks about beg a gay man mid-century St.

Several people who aren’t the home movi n ttify to what was like to be gay mid-century St. In the '60s, Eaton remembers lookg over his shoulr as he ventured to gay bars like Mart’s, near Unn Statn.