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This set (Main Set Entry) includes three of Wakefield Poole's gay erotic films of the 70s & 80s which predicted the modern gay erotic film industry. Poole is a dancer, choreographer, artist, and theatrical director. He became a pioneering film director in the gay pornography industry. His films feature, among others, Casey Donovan ((November 2, 1943 – August 10, 1987 of AIDS) and Bill Harrison, two of the best known porn stars of their time.
Feature films included in the set are:
• Boys in the Sand (1971)
• Bijou (1972)
• Boys in the Sand II (1986)
Also included in the set are short films and special features:
• Andy (a short commemorating Andy Warhol's first retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art, May 1971)
• Roger (a short of one of gay porn's early superstars masturbating against a black background and drum music)
• Freedom Day Parade ('home movies' of the 1974 San Francisco gay pride celebration)
• Godfathers of Porn (Jerry Douglas talks with Wakefield Poole)
Links:
• Wikipedia: Gay Pornography
• Wikipedia: Wakefield Poole
• Bright Lights Film Journal: Sex in Shangri-La
• Movie: I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives Of Wakefield Poole
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Seminal in more ways than one, Wakefield Poole's Boys in the Sand was the first triple-X film of any orientation to bill its director and actors (thereby launching the career of [Casey] Donovan, gay porn’s original superstar); (while it is said that it is the only adult flick ever reviewed in The New York Times, a search of the historic NY Times has not located the review). It even began the phenomenon of porn titles spoofing mainstream fare, mocking William Friedkin’s 1970 sissyfest, The Boys in the Band. After opening at the 55th Street Playhouse in December 1971, its notoriety began to attract hetero couples, eager to see what the fuss was about. “A couple of times when women had to go to the bathroom, we had to make sure there were no guys in there,” Poole recalls. By the time Gerard Damiano’s Deep Throat opened the following year, “the egg had cracked,” Poole says, and ’70s porno chic began." |
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