Jerry Yung-Chg Chang, The Pornoethnography of "Boys the Sand": Fetishisms of Race and Class the 1970s Gay Fire Island P, Women's Studi Quarterly, Vol. 43, No. 3/4, THE 1970s (FALL/WINTER 2015), pp. 101-115
Contents:
- BOYS THE SAND: THE GREATT MOMENT OF GAY VISIBILY EVER
- WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
- A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY PORN OM "BOYS THE SAND" TO BEL AMI
- GAY SEX SCENE RTORED TO 1972 FILM
BOYS THE SAND: THE GREATT MOMENT OF GAY VISIBILY EVER
Wakefield Poole's "Boys the Sand" proved to be an epochal enavor for gay filmmakg. When was released at the end of 1971, would prove to be one of the most succsful pennt hardre productns to have a theatril n. It was also reviewed the mastream prs, a rary for... * boys in the sand gay *
Wakefield Poole's "Boys the Sand" proved to be an epochal enavor for gay filmmakg. It was also reviewed the mastream prs, a rary for an explicly homoerotic film.
WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
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The romantic nocence of this film n be seen as tend 25 years ago, as a theatril experience of the then-burgeong gay sexualy.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY PORN OM "BOYS THE SAND" TO BEL AMI
He gave up a dance reer to create a crossover, and now classic, h film 1971 that had both gay and straight dienc, and celebri, lg up to see . * boys in the sand gay *
Shown at New York Lbian & Gay Film Ftival June 6-16, 1996. Shown at Philalphia Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival July 11-21, 1996.
GAY SEX SCENE RTORED TO 1972 FILM
Longtime theater producer Kyle Renick discs the lurid, strange and often sensatnal history of gay pornography om 1971 to prent day. Wns the change * boys in the sand gay *
Released Uned Stat June 1996 (Shown at New York Lbian & Gay Film Ftival June 6-16, 1996. Released Uned Stat July 1996 (Shown at Philalphia Internatnal Gay and Lbian Film Ftival July 11-21, 1996. The Stonewall rts and subsequent Pri events gave gay men a new sense of unashamed sexual exprsn, and Wakefield Poole -- way ahead of the pack -- saw gay sex as somethg worth portrayg art and film.
As we see I Always Said Y: The Many Liv of Wakefield Poole, Poole opened up a new market for gay porn: straight men and women.
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Donovan, who also worked unr the name Cal Culver, was the Marilyn Monroe of gay porn. He was two important aspects of gay life were now there for the world to see: real, balls-ep gay sex and the ease wh which happened.
And that the En-like glori of Fire Island were revealed jt add to the glamour of the prevly-unknown-to-straight-folks world of cisg and gay sex. Poole's film broke ground not jt for the gay sexual world but for the sexual world at large.