Gay Sex In The 70s (2005)

	Gay Sex in the Seventies
	Bob Alvarez	Himself
	Alvin Baltrop	Himself
	Borton Benes	Himself
	Tom Bianchi	Himself
	Scott Bromley	Himself
	Mel Cheren	Himself
	Arnie Kantrowitz	Himself
	Larry Kramer	Himself
	Lawrence Mass	Himself
	Rodger McFarlane	Himself

Director

Joseph F. Lovett
Joseph Lovett

A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era. Thirteen men and one woman look back at gay life and sex in Manhattan and Fire Island - from Stonewall (June, 1969) to the first reporting on AIDS (June, 1981). They describe the rapid move from repression to celebration, from the removal of shame to joy, the on-going search for "someone," the freedom before AIDS, the friendships, and brotherhood.

Edition Details
No. of Discs/Tapes	1

Personal Details
Purchase Date	2018
Store	Amazon.com
Purchase Price	$24.99
Tags	queer heritage
Links	+ Review: NY Times (2006, Dana Stevens) ± Review: The Guardian (2010) ± Review: AV Club (2005) Gay Sex in the 70s at Core for Movies IMDB TheMovieDb.org

References
Streaming, VoD	Amazon Video

The style of Gay Sex in the 70s is of interviews with gaymen of the era-most of whom were prominent in the New York City gay community centered in Greenwich Village· Also included in the "NYC" venue was the two adjacent Fire Island villages of Cherry Grove and Fire Island Pines located about 50 miles from Manhatten off the south side of Long Island-NYC vacation havens for the NYC queer community·

"Joseph F Lovett's 2005 documentary declines to apologise for the promiscuous gay culture of pre-Aids New York, suggesting instead that what both the gay and straight worlds of the 21st century now find so fascinating about it is how pure sex could be so freely available.· It's a period that has been hated and demonised for precipitating catastrophe, and for being a facile swirl of pleasure that was selfish and dangerous· Lovett takes a longer view· New York in the 1970s seems like an arena of nonstop gratification, but one that can only be understood in the context of the repression and fear that had gone before· [For many of today's gaymen] it seems as distant as the 1890s." [Guardian]