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. The romantic nocence of this film n be seen as tend 25 years ago, as a theatril experience of the then-burgeong gay sexualy.
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. Released Uned Stat June 1996 (Shown at New York Lbian & Gay Film Ftival June 6-16, 1996.
WAKEFIELD POOLE, PNEER GAY PORNOGRAPHY, DI AT 85
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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.
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.
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY PORN OM "BOYS THE SAND" TO BEL AMI
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Poole's film broke ground not jt for the gay sexual world but for the sexual world at large. Reelg Chigo Gay Lbian Film Ftival. So ’s bt if the thgs are swept unr the g and this nial of sex started years before the gay mastreamg movement.
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My new partner, Jamie, is a scholar of queer cult film (: 70's gay porn). We have been wantg to watch the films together for a while now - bee they are so knowledgeable on the subject, and I have a never-endg thirst for knowledge (: I also like gay porn).
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 *
Late Night Letterboxd, Entry #9Boys the Sand is my send film by Wakefield Poole, and his 1971 landmark for the gay porn dtry. " I uld probably quibble that, but as a statement on gay sexualy, 's hard to flt the podst, Liz and Tyler note that had huge crossover appeal, seen by not only gay men but straight upl and celebri. No wonr Hisayasu Satô's gay bondage pk film, "Mcle, " stck a chord wh me.
Wakefield Poole’s Boys the Sand wasn’t the first gay porn film, nor was star Casey Donovan’s screen but. It wasn’t even the first gay film to be be shot on Fire Island.
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But s naway succs and crossover appeal marked a turng pot the natn’s growg gay nscns and llective pornographic fantasy — not to mentn tablishg Wakefield Poole as one of the leadg figur of the new movement. That said, Boys the Sand holds up as a lh, heady, and y, fully versatile romp through the salt-breeze, sand-bar idyll of Fire Island, that gay oasis jt a uple of hours away om Manhattan. In an era when so many of were eply closeted and wered by the cultural and legal stigmata placed upon gay men, he embodied the realy that “Gay is Good, ” that our sexual sir are te and valid, that gay timacy is normal and natural, and that gay life n be open, joyo, and whout guilt.