Gay images appeared on film concurrent with the first “smokers” or “stags”: ten minute black-and-white silent 16 mm films that began to circulate on an underground basis around 1915. In this context, the history of gay erotic film is all about the journey from the private space to the public space, and as such it parallels the history of gay liberation itself.
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This relatively recent “legitimization” of gay film has come only after decades of struggle for the freedom to create, circulate, and acces gay erotic images - a struggle that has culminated in the freedom to view these images in the public environment of the movie theater. Pannel discussion: Selling out: the marketing of queer cinema (page 24) (start 1976) By 1997 gay film had become not only hip but marketable as well.
The development of gay film culture through the 80s and 90s is mirrored by the growth of Frameline’s San Fransisco Gay and Lesbian Film Festival. It thrives on a nurturing circuit of art-house screens and at film festivals attended by savvy, engaged, and adventurous audiences keyed in by sympathetic urban film journalists.
From the Bedroom to the Bijou - A secret history of American gay sex cinema (1997)Īt a time when public viewing habits are so thoroughly dominated by a mainstream Hollywood aesthetic, gay cinema is one of the few subgenres of independent film to prosper.
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