Gay Sex in the 70s
by Joseph Lovett
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Actor: Alvin Baltrop, Barton Benes, Larry Kramer, Roger McFarlane, Scott BromleyDirector: Joseph Lovett
Brand: Wolfe
Cinematographer: Joseph Lovett
Composer: Art Labriola
Editor: Jason Szabo
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo
Format: Black & White, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 1.66:1
Running Time: 67 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2006-06-06
Audience Rating: Unrated
Studio: Wolfe Video
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- The end of an era. The beginning of a movement. Hailed by critics and audiences alike, GAY SEX IN THE 70s director Joseph Lovett focuses his story on New York City between 1969 and 1981, using remarkable present-day interviews and stunning archival footage to take viewers back to days just after Stonewall. Lovett takes us back to the piers, the trucks, the Central Park rambles, the back rooms,
DVD Reviews of Gay Sex in the 70s
DVD Review: Those Were The Days Of Our Lives!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Without being raunchy and taking a chance on not getting this review published,
I will say that this documentary is a good chronicle of the innocence,
wildness, decadence and recklessness of the gay community in the 1970's.
After the Stonewall Riots in 1969, gay men and women all over the U.S.
decided that they weren't going to be beaten up, pushed around and mistreated
anymore!---They decided that they were not going to live their lives in the closet
anymore, that nothing was wrong with them, they were beautiful and decent (well some of us!),
and that they were going to live life to the fullest of their personalities and
effect change in the laws of this country which they loved and paid taxes to live in!
Out of that general constructive ethos came the gay rennaisance of the 1970's!
This was a very magical, innocent, wild & frightening time all at once,
and here are some of the survivors who lived it, breathed it, snorted it, DID IT,
on a scale of hedonism not seen since ancient roman & greek times! (-:
Some of their stories are racey and raunchy, the archival footage is racey
in places, poppers, weed & coke are prevalent, but that's how they
rolled in the 70's! (-: It talks about the parties, the infamous baths,
the various clubs with different scenes for the different tastes of gay men,
it shows the openess and freeness, the recklessness of the piers and the
trucks in the old meat-packing (no pun intended) district, the drug chic,
the seeming never-neverland of Fire Island, and ultimately the heavy toll
(perhaps) that all of that wild, free and debaucherous living took in the early 80's,
when a new, horrible, mysterious "gay cancer" started to wipe out gay men
in droves and shut the door on the forever summer party boys fantasy forever!
Well, this film also shows how that same community got sober, woke up and
started to fight back against the ravages of this disease, which by 1985,
had a name, AIDS...But many were lost in those early days when nothing was
known about it, drugs were limited, and fear was high!
Many saw it as a divine judgement against gay men for what they deemed
as an unsavory & immoral lifestyle. (Nothing about AIDS is DIVINE!!)
But the gay community rallied, educated itself, and thanks to the struggles
and sacrifices of people like the late Harvey Milk and others, realized that
they had a political voice as well!
So there was much good that came from those very bad times.
But I liked that this film shows the pioneer group, the first generation
of liberated gay men who stepped out there, wild & free, and the doors that
had kept them oppressed in the closet were knocked down forever!
The younger generations of gay men and women are left to digest and discuss
these lessons and to use what they learn as it applies to their day and time.
This is good viewing for a young, entitled & frivolous gay community which
pretty much knows nothing of the struggles and gains of the past as they face
discrimination (Prop 8, The Struggle For Legal Acknowledgement of Same-Sex Marriage,
Enactment of Hate Crime Laws For Protection Under The Law, etc.) in today's world!
Even though much has been gained, the lessons of the past can educate and
strengthen you in your resolve to fight today, if you just pay attention.
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