This documentary explor the birth of the gay pri movement New York after the Stonewall rts of 1969 and the sexual eedom that rulted. It touch on many aspects of gay culture the 1970s, cludg mic, dgs and art, followed by the vastatg impact that the onset of AIDS had on the homosexual muny. Told through several terviews and archival material, pats a picture of solidary and posivy while explorg the sexualy of a relatively new movement.
Contents:
- WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
- GAY SEX THE '70S
- TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
WHY BEG “GAY THE ’70S NEW YORK AND L.A. WAS MAGIC” — AND HOW HOLLYWOOD HAS CHANGED (GUT COLUMN)
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Some people seem to thk that gay cema started wh 'Brokeback Mounta' 2005...
GAY SEX THE '70S
Here are some of thew gay films that me out (no pun tend) the 1970s. It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, but the Society Which He Liv (1971). Gay USA (1978).
TURNS OUT, BARBIELAND ISN'T AS GAY AS S QUEER FANS HAD HOPED
The Homosexual Century (1979). I was the luckit gay Jew the world. The most wonrful thg about those days was that the gay folks power lent a hand to young gay people tryg to get a foothold the bs.
There was a powerful work of olr succsful gay men like theatril agent Milton Goldman and entertament attorney Arnold Weissberger who troduced younger gay men to succsful showbiz typ at their betiful apartment on Sutton Place overlookg the East River. They were a long-“married” uple a good half-century before there was gay marriage! One night at Juli’, the famo Wt Village gay bar, I met a man and took him home wh me.
Every gay bar had a ltle dance floor. If he shone three tim, they lled the NYPD, who had a al wh the Mafia owners of the gay bars to arrt a quota of “faggots” each week.