On this week’s show, we’ll be lookg at one of cema’s more outrageo vany projects: David L. Allen’s semi-tobgraphil 1973 epic, THE LIGHT FROM THE SECOND STORY WINDOW. Origally nng a full three hours long, the film — adapted om Allen’s own novel — tells the story of Lee Jon, a young man who arriv Hollywood seekg stardom, only to be forced to prostutn, sex films, and dg addictn on his way to the top. There’s almost too much to talk about this one, but durg our discsn, we’ll look to the cur life of David Allen, the mastream gay social club that got volved the sex film world, and the film’s targetg by the Los Angel Police Department.
Contents:
- 16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
- LES PAPILLES, PARIS - 30 E GAY LSAC, QUARTIER LAT - MENU & PRIC - TRIPADVISOR
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
- LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
16 MT-SEE CLASSIC GAY MOVI FROM BEFORE YOU WERE BORN
Dear lennials, the generatn born durg the '80s, the are the gay-themed movi — some wonrful, some wonrfully terrible — worth your time. * bijou gay classics *
Even though a movie about a gay man is up for multiple Amy Awards on Sunday, pictns of LGBT life rema rare mastream film. A few filmmakers were brave enough to feature gay characters that weren't utnary tal. Spoiler alert: Sebastian ed Cathere to lure attractive young men for him to have sex wh, and a group of them killed Sebastian an pecially barbaric the time, the release of a film pend on whether met the standards of the Productn Co (this was before the Motn Picture Associatn of Ameri's ratg system) and the film was approved to pict Sebastian as gay only "sce the film illtrat the horrors of such a liftyle, n be nsired moral theme even though als wh sexual perversn.
Spoiler alert: One of the women is ed gay and love wh her worker, and thgs don't end well for a box office flop, the movie opened to cril acclaim, and received five Amy Award nomatns and three Goln Globe nods, cludg one for MacLae for Bt (1962)This Brish film, wrten by a woman (Ja Green wh John McCormick), was a repudiatn of that natn's harsh antigay laws. A blackmailer is targetg London's gays, mandg money exchange for keepg secret their same-sex affairs; many fancially strapped victims m suici rather than face prison or huiatn. The sidns of ernment-sponsored homophobia is at the foreont of the movie, which is revolutnary for s pictn of a bisexual protagonist not to be msed wh; he's the furtht thg om a victim.
By all acunts a happy fay man, the senator apparently had a gay ol' time Hawaii that's now e back to be him the butt. Claire Bloom plays Theodora, a gay psychic who tak a very distct likg to Eleanor. Midnight Cowboy (1969)This prsg drama om gay director John Schlger stars Jon Voight and Dt Hoffman as htlers who enter to a "plited" bs relatnship while workg the streets of New York.
LES PAPILLES, PARIS - 30 E GAY LSAC, QUARTIER LAT - MENU & PRIC - TRIPADVISOR
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The film received an X ratg om the MPAA due to s "homosexual ame of reference and possible fluence upon youngsters, " and end up beg the only X-rated film to w the Bt Picture Amy Award. The homosexualy was more implied than featured -- the relatnship between Voight and Hoffman is not what you'd ll passnate -- but there is a memorable scene wh Voight beg serviced by a young man at a movie theater. {C}The Boys the Band (1970)It may surprise some lennials that the director of The Exorcist, William Friedk, also ma an famo movie about gay men.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
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The jury's still of My Bt Friends Are (1971)Mostly fotten, this groundbreakg movie centered around a rcuo night a Greenwich Village gay bar.
You n cred gay director John Schlger for that; y, the same John Schlger who directed the ld Midnight Cowboy and the absolutely rid Madonna vehicle The Next Bt Daniel Day-Lewis, then a teenager, has a small, uncreded role. The actor would go on to star one of the most beloved gay films of the early AIDS era, My Betiful Lndrette.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
There's also a murr, a character based on the famo film agent Sue Mengers, and people wh "gay pasts. " In the urse of the film, secrets of iends are revealed; one is a h-and-n killer and another is gay (siar offens, right?
Wrten by mored lovers Stephen Sondheim and Anthony Perks (that would be the famo poser and the star of Psycho), The Last of Sheila lifted a mpy veil on the gay athetic that remas so tegral to Trouble (1974)For any lennial unfaiar wh out wrer-director John Waters: Shame on you! The movie attacked every Amerin nventn (for example, an obe nt played by Edh Massey repeatedly tri to nvce her straight nephew to go gay bee "If they're smart they're queer, if they're stupid they're straight") Cage x Foll (1978)This French-Italian film about a middle-aged gay uple, Renato (Ugo Tognazzi) and Alb (Michel Serrlt), who try to pose as straight to w over their son's fiancee and her nservative parents, walked the tightrope between homage and stereotype -- the gay characters were over-the-top but still lovable (pare that to The Boys the Band). The Bijou Theatre was advertised as “The Olst Theatre the US showg the very ft Gay Films sce 1969”.
It was opened by Sean O'Connor on July 14, 1971 screeng avant gar/unrground movi shown om 16mm prts but gradually went over to screeng gay porn wh a year. In the 1980’s was re-named the Bijou Cema and ntued to play gay male XXX films. By 1992 wh all the petn om the new Loews Village and Village East, the theatre quietly went back to gay male adult films, and closed around 2002.
THE VOICE OF CHICAGO'S GAY, LESBIAN, BI, TRANS AND QUEER COMMUNITY SINCE 1985
The outrageo story of 1970s porn in Jack Wrangler, and how he rose to the top of the gay, and then straight, adult film dtry.
The story of Vo Rso, foundg father of the gay liberatn movement, thor of "The Celluloid Closet, " and vocifero AIDS activist the 1980s.
The podst explorg the lost gay bars of Lewisham and a dis playlist! From classics to the pths of pravy this is the playlist to make your yuleti gay. "We appreciate and thank the gay muny, and have been grateful to be a part of for 46 years.
LARRY HAWORTH'S LIST: GAY PORN TUBE
He said, "I got to see the gay muny evolve that place. They were gay-iendly, lbian-iendly and trans-iendly there. Toh was put charge of the Bijou 1970; the venue began showg gay films exclively 1978.
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