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GAY TALE STAYS TOO LONG AT 'THE VOYR'S MOTEL'
* gay voyuerism *
Women, gay and bisexual men, and lbians have been the most probable to work on improvg their physil characteristics. 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.
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.
Gay Tale nflat the journalist and the voyr his new book about a motel owner who spied on his guts. And he mak the rears voyrs as well: We watch him watchg the unwary motel guts. * gay voyuerism *
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...