In this exclive excerpt, the thor of Sexplosn! From Andy Warhol to A Clockwork Orange: How a Generatn of Pop Rebels Broke All the Taboos tells how Midnight Cowboy's party sequence and a gunshot om Valerie Solanas helped make Joe Dallandro a gay in.
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MIDNIGHT COWBOY, ANDY WARHOL, GAY HTLERS, AND ONE LBIAN FEMIST
Joan Didn once wrote of Hollywood, “Much of what is wrten about pictur and about picture people approach realy only ocsnally and accintally.” So is wh Midnight Cowboy, one of the classics of the short-lived New Hollywood era and the only X-rated film ever to w an Amy Award for bt picture.The long-standg myth is that the Motn Picture Associatn of Ameri’s pdish ratgs board, repelled by Midnight Cowboy’s scen of fellat, sodomy, homosexualy, and sadomasochism, slapped an X on the film before s release May 1969.