JEFFREY ESCOFFIER, Sex the Seventi: Gay Porn Cema as an Archive for the History of Amerin Sexualy, Journal of the History of Sexualy, Vol. 26, No. 1 (JANUARY 2017), pp. 88-113
Contents:
A BRIEF HISTORY OF GAY PORN OM "BOYS THE SAND" TO BEL AMI
A documentary about Chuck Holm, who found Faln Studs, unvers the risks (and adventur) of makg sexy films for a gay dience. * history of gay pornography *
Few men have had as much an effect on gay culture as Vghn Kcey, Jack Duflt, Jim Hodg, and Chuck Holm. In the late 1960s and early 70s, they -- unr the psdonyms John Summers, Matt Sterlg, John Travis, and Bill Clayton -- helped pneer what would bee the gay pornography dtry. Gay films ma by gay men for a gay dience.
Longtime theater producer Kyle Renick discs the lurid, strange and often sensatnal history of gay pornography om 1971 to prent day. Wns the change * history of gay pornography *
Driven by the exuberance of gay liberatn and prof, they livered to lns of gay men the first visn of what an out, unashamed gay life might look 40 years later, they and the risks they took are still largely unknown and unacknowledged. I met Bob Damron [of the Damron Gay Travel Gui]. This was straight and gay porn.
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We wanted to be gay. "And I said "A gay porn movie?
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They were reflectg new gay eedoms. The explosn of gay men's visibily: on the streets, the world, bars that no longer had their wdows pated black and the movi quickly reflected this. Mapplethorpe adored her body and, nspiracy wh her and his Hasselblad, ed Lyon nus to dispt the visual clich of his own gay gym culture.