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Bigger Than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore
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Hardcore pornboth the straight and gay varietiesentered mainstream American culture in the 1970s as the sexual revolution swept away many of the cultural inhibitions and legal restraints on explicit sexual expression. The first porn movie ever to be reviewed by Variety, the entertainment industrys leading trade journal, was Wakefield Pooles Boys in the Sand (1971), a sexuallyexplicit gay movie shot on Fire Island with a budget of 4000. Moviegoers, celebrities and criticsboth gay and straightflocked to see Boys in the Sand when it opened in mainstream movie theaters in New York, Los Angeles and San Francisco. Within a year, Deep Throat, a heterosexual hardcore feature opened to rave reviews and a huge box officeexceeding that of many mainstream Hollywood features.Almost all of those involved in making commercial gay pornographic movies began as amateurs in a field that had virtually never existed before, either as art or commerce. Many of their underground predecessors had repeatedly suffered arrest and other forms of legal harassment. There was no developed gay market and any films made commercially were shown in adult xrated theaters. After the Stonewall riots and the emergence of the gay liberation movement in 1969, a number of entrepreneurs began to make gay adult movies for the new mail order market. The gay porn film industry grew dramatically during the next thirty years and transformed the way mengay men in particularconceived of masculinity and their sexuality. Bigger Than Life tells that story.
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