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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...
God's Own Country arrived in the same year as Call Me by Your Name, and the comparison was immediate and instructive. Both films are about a young...
On December 17, 2018, Tumblr destroyed something that had taken a decade to build. With a single policy update — a blanket ban on all adult content,...
Gay pornography has a history. Not a shameful one, not a footnote to real culture, but a genuine history — of studios founded by gay men who saw a mar...
If Falcon represents the studio era of gay pornography — a single brand, a singular aesthetic, a founder's vision expressed through decades of consist...
The twink — slender, youthful, smooth-bodied, often with a boyish quality that sits at the edge of adult without crossing it — is one of the most pers...
Weekend takes place over forty-eight hours in Nottingham. Two men meet at a bar on Friday night, go home together, and spend the weekend in the spec...
Every major Hollywood studio passed on Behind the Candelabra. Steven Soderbergh had a script by Richard LaGravenese, two of the most acclaimed actor...
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...
William Burroughs wrote Queer in the early 1950s, directly after the accidental shooting death of his wife Joan Vollmer in Mexico City — an event th...
Where Falcon gave gay pornography the all-American athletic ideal, Raging Stallion gave it something rawer, darker, and more aggressively masculine. F...