Colt's gay films a purposeful dig - Slam Wrtlg

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• COLT’S GAY FILMS A PURPOSEFUL DIG
• GAY MOSW MOSW CY GUI
• GAY MOSW · CY GUI
• KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY
• JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

COLT’S GAY FILMS A PURPOSEFUL DIG

The Gay Mtache. Gay men practilly owned the mtache the '70s, and now 's bee a symbol of men's health issu celebrated every year durg Movember.

In honor of our hairy history, we prent the big gay mtach of our past. Forster whheld publitn of his groundbreakg gay romance novel Mrice until after his ath.

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Devl was for me, when I me out the 80's, my first "gay" in. 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. 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...

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Assertg as do not the sickns but the validy of homosexual affectn and homoerotic appeal.

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? French's fluence on gay male visibily is prable only to Tom of Fland's terms of cultural saturatn. (Google "Colt mol gay" and you get almost 2 ln rults.

KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE ACH A US MEN’S PROFSNAL SPORTS LEAGUE TO PUBLICLY E OUT AS GAY

Many of them had the kd of bodi many gay men only dreamed about.

But Jim French's day, was a ntrary notn to portray gay men as hypetmascule and butch.

I don't know why he said , bee he was not gay, and hdsight, 's not a gay statement, if you nsir the time which was said, he said, "Why don't you do drawgs of bodybuilrs and we'll sell the reproductns. He had an office New Jersey and he was publishg some low-gra "gay" publitns like Young Adonis. I thk most people knew what was, but those days "gay" was not on the radar.

JACKSONVILLE JAGUARS' KEV MAXEN BE FIRST MALE COACH TO COME OUT AS GAY MAJOR U.S. SPORTS

I suppose was the goln age of masochists, bee if you wanted to really make your life a livg hell, you uld be obvly gay. We would do ads gay-type magaz, and we did tras for a while: We would get ee ads if we let the magaze have so many pictur for their edn. But then I started feelg uneasy bee I've always felt that bee somethg is gay, didn't have to be sleazy.

When I started dog this, the gay rose was jt startg to bud, so I was able to go wh and see beg to flower. The Colt Stud photographs and other male eroti llectn ntas homoerotic photographs and illtratns primarily produced by Colt Stud. The imag were offered as sets of mail-orr prts primarily marketed towards the gay muny.