What was thought of as porn back then was pin-up magazines like Vim and Vigor and all those Bruce of. JOHN WATERS ("Pope of Trash," director Pink Flamingos): When I was young there was no legal hardcore porn. Here, in the words of those who were there is how it all began. Some of these stories made it into the film, which screens this summer at dozens of festivals, including Outfest in Los Angeles on July 13. While working on Seed Money, a documentary about Chuck Holmes - who founded Falcon Studios, and went on to become the most commercially successful of the four - I kept coming back to the risks and adventure of those first years post-Stonewall. Driven by the exuberance of gay liberation and profit, they delivered to millions of gay men the first vision of what an out, unashamed gay life might look like.īut 40 years later, they and the risks they took are still largely unknown and unacknowledged. Gay films made by gay men for a gay audience. In the late 1960s and early 70s, they - under the pseudonyms John Summers, Matt Sterling, John Travis, and Bill Clayton - helped pioneer what would become the gay pornography industry. Few men have had as much an effect on gay culture as Vaughn Kincey, Jack Dufault, Jim Hodges, and Chuck Holmes.
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