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A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY PORN OM "BOYS THE SAND" TO BEL AMI

Longtime theater producer Kyle Renick discs the lurid, strange and often sensatnal history of gay pornography om 1971 to prent day. Wns the change * the history of gay porn *

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A BRIEF POLIL—AND PERSONAL—HISTORY OF GAY BATHHO

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Today's showse episo trac the evolutn of obsceny laws and the stggl of a muny to obta the kd of sex-posive, inty-affirmg erotic material that most of today of all orientatns pretty much take for granted. Well, wasn’t always that way, pecially for gays. In fac… * the history of gay porn *

Though that’s ls the story of Nick Iana than is the one of every small-town, closeted, lower-middle-class gay youth Pennsylvania.

’”Close iend and former Adult Vio News gay-ntent edor Mickey Skee says Stefano was poor wh planng his reer and budgetg his money, easily swept away by the gay-porn dtry’s off-set dg culture.

As the first episo a seri, we discs the origs of gay porn begng after world war II. Explorg the world of Bob Mizer, we ver the grandfather of beefke magaz and photography that flourished the 1950s and laid the foundatn for gay porn. However, there were double standards… * the history of gay porn *

“Major nam, om Monroe to Janis Jopl to Amy Wehoe—all of the people were a ms, ” says Michael Lus, a gay-porn actor sce 1996 and today one of the most succsful producers of gay adult films around.

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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.

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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. 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...

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?

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As the mera pans around, viewers tch a glimpse of half-naked men, gay porn stars of s past, ty stacks of ck rgs, and miscellaneo sex toys still their Mason and her hband, Barry, -owners of the store, mmage through materials as their dghter Rachel films.

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