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Every major Hollywood studio passed on Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh had a script by Richard LaGravenese, two of the most acclaimed actor...
In 1995, when Bruce Cam founded TitanMen in San Francisco, the prevailing aesthetic in mainstream gay porn was still the Falcon man: collegiate, smoot...
Most gay pornography is not interested in storytelling. It has scenarios — the pool boy, the personal trainer, the step-something — but scenarios are...
Call Me by Your Name is the BoysDo film. Not because it was made for this platform — it wasn't — but because it inhabits, more fully than any other...
The military man is one of the oldest standing fantasies in gay culture. The uniform, the haircut, the chain of command, the institutional intimacy of...
There is a reveal in The Crying Game that, in 1992, the entire cultural apparatus of film promotion worked to protect. Critics agreed not to mention...
Andrew Haigh made Weekend in 2011 and All of Us Strangers in 2023, and between those two films something changed — in Haigh, or in what cinema can...
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...
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...
Moonlight won the Academy Award for Best Picture in 2017, in a ceremony that will be remembered for the wrong reason — the envelope mixup, the *La L...
When John Travis founded Hot House Entertainment in 1986, the part of San Francisco gay culture he was about to spend three decades documenting was al...
