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In 1971, a man named Chuck Holmes rented a small space in San Francisco, bought a camera, and began making gay pornographic films with a level of prod...
River Phoenix died two years after My Own Private Idaho was released. He was twenty-three. The film has been lit differently ever since — biographic...
Midnight Cowboy won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 1970. It was rated X at the time of its release — the only X-rated film ever to win the Os...
Passages was given an NC-17 rating in the United States — the rating that, in practice, makes theatrical distribution impossible — for a scene of ma...
In the late 1980s, in Harlem and the South Bronx, Black and Latino gay and trans people built a culture of extraordinary invention and beauty in the m...
Men.com gay porn, Men.com studio review, best gay porn sites, Men.com scenarios parody, popular gay adult site Men.com occupies a specific and well-d...
Beautiful Thing is the kindest film on this list. That is not a small thing. Queer cinema has often felt compelled to earn its right to exist throug...
There is a lineage. It doesn't announce itself, but it's there — running from a Harlem studio in the 1970s through a California beach, a Berlin apartm...
There is a cinema of the body. Not pornography — something more considered than that, and more honest. A cinema that understands desire as a subject w...
Harvey Milk was elected to the San Francisco Board of Supervisors in 1978, becoming the first openly gay man elected to public office in California. H...
