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Contents:

• WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE
• 'GAY VOYRS' ARRTED AFTER FILMG NAKED MEN AT GYM - AND POSTG FOOTAGE ONLE
• GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'

WHAT TO KNOW ABOUT A SEEMGLY FAKE DOCUMENT A GAY RIGHTS CASE

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'GAY VOYRS' ARRTED AFTER FILMG NAKED MEN AT GYM - AND POSTG FOOTAGE ONLE

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Available to stream on PlutoTVVoyr (2017)This documentary starts as journalist Gay Tale probg Colorado motel owner Gerald Foos who claims to have spent s peepg to his guts’ rooms thanks to ctomized attic ceilg vents — stalled by Foos and his wife — as both a soclogil experiment and a means of, well, you get the ia. Two 'gay voyrs' held 'after filmg men gettg changed leisure centre and postg footage onle' Two men have been arrted over claims they secretly rerd men gettg changed at a leisure centre and then put the footage on a gay to 28 men are believed to have been filmed var stat of undrs at the FX Leisure Centre Gathead.

GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'

Existence of the footage only me to light when one of the men said to have been taped as he changed at the gym saw pictur of himself on a gay webse. The footage is then said to have been posted on a gay webse The bsman ntacted the club's management and police after seeg footage of himsself, acrdg to the Daily Mirror, and two men were then arrted. 'Some of the members are not too happy about their manhood makg an unwanted gut appearance on a gay webse.

But here’s what me first: Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d...

Back April, when the New Yorker published “The Voyr’s Motel, ” Gay Tale’s article tailg how Gerald Foos had spied on guts havg sex his East Colfax Avenue motel for s through special ventilatn screens he’d stalled the ceilgs of the now-funct Manor Hoe motel, I was as amed, horrified and fascated by the tale as were most people who read .

[Below: a YouTube vio which Foos scrib his llectn, also featurg Gay Tale. 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. 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? "Gerald Foos says he started Manor Hoe Motel Aurora, Colo., for the sole purpose of spyg on his guts om fake celg now-octogenarian cid three years ago that he was ready to have his story told by Gay Tale, the renowned journalist wh whom he first began rrpondg , 36 years later, Tale published "The Voyr's Motel" this week's New Yorker, reuntg all he learned om meetg Foos person and readg his journals sent to him over the peepg proprietor said he bought his hotel 1966 and ma sure there was space above the rooms, so he and his wife uld see what those below were up to — and sometim even have sex above them.

"Gerald Foos first began rrpondg wh wrer Gay Tale (pictured) 1980, and the journalist once joed the motelier his voyrism. “You n’t make this stuff up, ” Gay Tale says the begng of Voyr, the new documentary chroniclg the velopment of his book The Voyr’s Motel, which was excerpted as a ntroversial New Yorker article, and, as of Friday, is available on Netflix. In hdsight, some errors are glargly obv: There are some obv and damng genr dynamics at work here, between Gay and Nan and between Foos and his wife, Ana, but Kane and Koury do ltle to lve to the sexual polics that make Foos’s motel an enavor of masculy, and an credibly vlatg and disturbg one at that.