“Fallg to the easy trap of foregroundg sex has the effect of erasg the nuance, the richns, and even the mss of people’s liv,” wr profsor of history at Connecticut College Jim Downs his new book Stand By Me: The Fotten History of Gay Liberatn (out March 1). The book exists to highlight the nuance, the richns, and even the mss of people’s liv by offerg an alternate history of gay life the ‘70s. Though the years leadg up to the AIDS epimic are largely thought of as a sexual ee-for-all (as picted the 2005 documentary Gay Sex the ‘70s, and Larry Kramer’s 1978 novel Faggots), clearly there was more gog on than jt fuckg, and that’s where Downs . He don’t negate the ia that lots of men had lots of sex the ‘70s, he merely supplements .
Contents:
- THE SLUTTY RURGENCE OF NEW YORK'S UNRGROUND GAY SEX PARTI
- GAWKER’S RICH JUZWIAK INTERVIEWS A GAY LTLE PERSON ABOUT GETTG LAID AND FTG IN: VIDEO
- PROFSNAL BOXER YAF MACK CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED GAY PORN VIO
- MORE THAN JT SEX: A CONVERSATN ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE '70S
- SAM SMH'S FUCKED-UP GAY CONSERVATISM
- GAY-SEX
THE SLUTTY RURGENCE OF NEW YORK'S UNRGROUND GAY SEX PARTI
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He lnched Members Only Club LLC January of that year wh the ultimate goal of raisg pal to open a gay bathhoe New York, which has been void of such tablishments (at least officially and any permanent pacy) sce the mid-‘80s, when they were cleared out by the cy as AIDS ravaged s populatn of queer men. ” Vasquez said he met “a lot of people—nice, cent, genue people” at Members Only, which he scribed as “a social place where gay men gathered and they happened to be var gre of undrs. And then the group would disperse, and all of a sudn another area would bee a garn of pnmatic lv, as -shape dus kneeled all over the floor to give head to other -shape dus reclg on the was jt another Friday night gay New York Cy, where ’s a great time to be a days the cy, when the weekend rolls around, men who enjoy men have a variety of optns: They n go out dancg, they n go out drkg, or they n go out fuckg.
GAWKER’S RICH JUZWIAK INTERVIEWS A GAY LTLE PERSON ABOUT GETTG LAID AND FTG IN: VIDEO
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)As one might spect would be the se wh any sex party—gay, straight, or otherwise—the scene operat wh some level of natural secrecy. “We started the party a year ago, ” said a party host I’ll ll John, whose party, until recently, was largely held a small, divey gay bar Manhattan. Public gay sex New York, too, never really went away, even durg the plague years of the AIDS epimic— jt got phed to gym steam rooms and the odd bar back room.
PROFSNAL BOXER YAF MACK CLAIMS HE WAS DGGED GAY PORN VIO
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Sex parti targeted at men who have sex wh men, though, tell a story about gay history and s prent: In 2017, men who have sex wh men are fuckg a new age of liberatn.
MORE THAN JT SEX: A CONVERSATN ABOUT AN ALTERNATIVE HISTORY OF GAY MEN THE '70S
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Michael Bronski wr his 2011 book A Queer History of the Uned Stat that early gay-liberatn groups such as the Mattache Society foced on “two distct rpons to legal issu faced by homosexuals. ” The first aimed to secure “sexual eedom for all women and men by repealg sodomy laws and endg police harassment associated wh homosexual socializg or activy.
This is primarily a legacy of the cy’s ght, post-Stonewall history wh public spac for gay sex; early on the HIV/AIDS epimic, the vis was referred to as “Sat’s disease” bee so many patrons of the East Village dis the Sat died om . Startg soon after the AIDS crisis began the early ’80s, gay men heard about the adly nsequenc of their kd of sex near-nstantly, via PSAs, news footage of nearly ad bodi ravished by AIDS, and even through the work of gay activists like Larry Kramer, who took to prcribg abstence to bat the much has changed sce then, even if Larry Kramer’s hand-wrgg over gay promiscuy hasn’t really.
In 2014, New York, wrer Tim Murphy examed how PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis, an antiretroviral medil regimen that prevents negative people om ntractg HIV up to 99 percent) was g a cultural sea change amongst gay men. Murphy tled his piece “Sex Whout Fear, ” and at the sex parti I’ve vised over the past few months, the tle has held up; I haven’t seen much to suggt that AIDS-related fear dictat many urban, gay men’s sex liv. A recent study of 350 gay-male upl which one partner was HIV negative and one was HIV posive, but on viral-supprsn meditn, found zero stance of exposure over the urse of more than 17, 000 ndomls sex acts.
SAM SMH'S FUCKED-UP GAY CONSERVATISM
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”) Pl, the parti offer a refuge om the hassl of geo-loactn-app acquired sual sex that has bee such a norm amongst gay and bisexual men.
The most recent one, May, featured a DJ set and the mock baptism— red pat, by legendary gay filmmaker Bce La Bce—of some naked twks.
In those days, he’d advertise by handg out vatns bars or by postg the back of gay weekly nightlife rags like began to build a followg, throwg parti at var lotns throughout the cy before settlg to his current spot about 20 years ago. It looks a lot like the scriptns I’ve read of the notor gay Wt Village BDSM club the Mhaft, which was open for about 10 years before beg shuttered by the health partment.
GAY-SEX
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” And a week whout time wasted chasg sex va on hook-up apps, is a week well spent gay 2008, Huntr Vreeland has held his weekly all-male HandsomeNYC party at the Manhattan BDSM club Paddl. Though is officially a “BDSM club, ” Paddl offers a variety of gay-themed parti throughout the week (“Straight or BDSM people will not e out [Sunday-Thursday] nights, ” he explaed), cludg after-hours parti on Friday and Saturday nights until 7 am.
“At this pot, law enforcement New York Cy has far more prsg ncerns than gay sex parti nsistg of nsentg adults privately owned lotns, ” he explaed by phone. I’ve seen guys socialize at the parti wh an enthiasm that is unmon other, ls sex-oriented, more play--ol gay spac I’ve entered.