A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and...

A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted's Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole's L.A. Plays Itself is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent particular, polarizing moments in the early history of the gay movement.

Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar. She is currently professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.


Author: Cindy Patton
Publisher: Arsenal Pulp Press
Published: 12/23/2014
Pages: 160
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.30lbs
Size: 6.90h x 5.00w x 0.50d
ISBN: 9781551525624

About the Author
Cindy Patton: Cindy Patton is a longtime activist and scholar who has written extensively about social and political dimensions of the AIDS epidemic. She writes about media, including pornography. She is currently Professor of Sociology at Simon Fraser University in British Columbia.