Is "Dawson's 20-Load Weekend" the Most Important Gay Porn Film Ever Ma?

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• IS "DAWSON'S 20-LOAD WEEKEND" THE MOST IMPORTANT GAY PORN FILM EVER MA?
• GAY TREASURE ISLAND MEDIA PORN VIOS
• HE’S THE TREASURE ISLAND MAYOR, HE’S GAY AND FALLY HIS ‘THENTIC SELF’

IS "DAWSON'S 20-LOAD WEEKEND" THE MOST IMPORTANT GAY PORN FILM EVER MA?

Gay adult film star Steve "Tpig" Hurley passed away on Easter Sunday Palm Sprgs. Hurley, whose real name was Pl Yger, appeared gay adult films for over 15 years and is remembered as both a nsummate profsnal and an outgog and lovg person. "He set a new standard for what the image of what a gay porn star should look like, " iend and star Christian Mchell told Xbiz.

Even the fearls leather muny that found the event n sometim appear tame amidst the outlandish kks and clothg -- and lack thereof -- on display along the cy's tilted the middle of this rowdy bacchanalia the fall of 2003, Pl Morris stood at the booth for Treasure Island Media (TIM), the gay porn outf he found that featur unprotected sex (barebackg) between s actors. '"And that is how Dawson's 20 Load Weekend was to the onset of AIDS, ndom age gay pornography was nonexistent -- but that was before bodily fluids beme synonymo wh ath and disease. For well over a after the crisis began, gay porn vios featured not only tightly wrapped penis, but their storyl -- ed, the actors themselv -- suffered om a sort of dramatic malaise, as if sleepwalkg through their sexual route while tryg to pay no attentn to the man wh KS lns behd the curta.

"As AIDS aths subsid wh the advent of new meditns 1996, gay male culture rpond wh a vengeance. Reclaimg a bold sexualy -- somethg many gay men believed had been lost forever -- was a tonic for the post-trmatic strs they suffered.

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Younger gay men, who had listened to stori of an earlier, sexually liberated time as if were a lost era of paleontology, were more than willg to explore whatever morn versn might awa them. Unprotected sex sce the arrival of HIV is nothg new -- is, after all, the primary reason for new fectns that have ntued fairly steadily sce AIDS began -- but the late 1990's the gay muny proved aga how illy apt is at applyg a ltle brandg to any phenomenon, and "barebackg" entered the public lexin. It wasn't the sex that had changed, but the meang and judgment associated wh towards, most specifilly, gay men.

None of the leadg gay pornographers would nsir producg them (although they were eager to market their highly-profable backlists of vios produced "pre-AIDS" that featured bareback sex). Their explos were perceived as an unrground fetish that would never break the surface of more mastream gay then Max Sohl met that ferocly attractive man om the Folsom Street Fair who was so eager to "get seed" by a strg of strangers, and wh the sexual zegeist now primed for their arrival, they ma a film that would forever change the porn dtry and que arguably fluence the sexual behavr of untls gay "Dawson, " the buddg porn star was served up a hotel room over the urse of New York Cy's 2004 Black Party weekend to an ongog para of bareback tops.

While asms gay porn before AIDS typilly showed the top whdrawg om his partner and spillg his semen across his partner's backsi, the tops servicg Dawson had a different and very liberate missn: to whdraw only long enough to prove their asm, and then re-enter Dawson immediately to show the jectn of was not a film that was ma the absence of HIV, but was created bee of HIV. This is how gay men have sex now.

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""Bareback porn pani have blood on their hands, " beme a mon rea among gay men and health advot. Gay sex advice lumnist Dan Savage equated the vios to child porn, believg they take advantage of the naive and the vulnerable. Gay porn s that once refed to feature bareback clips began cludg them.

Perhaps, then, the film was a treatise on the kd of sexual liberatn available to HIV posive gay men today, monstratg the "new normal" for those who take their meds, elimate the viral activy their blood, and "fuck eely and whout fear, " as TIM founr Pl Morris once put .

Their vio pas are available onle everywhere and for everyone, cludg young gay men who are jt g out and surfg the ter for validatn of their those young men will almost certaly see onle are pictns of unprotected sex, bee bareback vios now outperform scen of ndom age on every se that rri them -- and most of them now do. It picted a prevailg tth about gay sexual behavr "post AIDS, " and arguably enuraged risky sexual adventure-seekg. To dismiss this film, to mimize s social and cultural impact, would be to monstrate a profound misunrstandg of gay sexualy today.