Portraying the projectionist that’s running the flick, Bressan proceeds to trash it for a good laugh, ragging on what passes for standard in the XXX industry. Robert Adams and Robert Carnagey in “Passing Strangers” Passing Strangers (1974)īressan has the audacity to open Passing Strangers, one of the few sexually explicit gay indies of the ’70s, with a grainy scene of straight sex - revealed to be playing onscreen at a porn theater. Lured, however, by the men, the mood, and the attitude of the sexually liberated ’70s and ’80s, I stuck with the PinkLabelTV Classics, billed as “vintage adult film from the silver and golden age of porn.” Bressan’s work was a highlight of my trip back in time, but Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters were just the beginning.īiden Administration Investigating 6 Religious Colleges for LGBTQ Rights Violations Practically all genders and tastes are celebrated in a collection spanning decades, up to some brand-new releases.
As of this August, both are available exclusively on PinkLabelTV, either streaming on-demand or with a PinkLabelTV PLUS subscription.įounded in 2013 by queer feminist producer and director Shine Louise Houston, the PinkLabel platform is a treasure trove of indie adult entertainment, with diverse titles grouped into several appealing channels.
Two of them, Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters, represent the plot-driven gay male erotica Bressan is better known for, and are the latest of his films to be restored by the Bressan Project. Bressan, Jr., including his landmark 1978 documentary Gay USA, chronicling the LGBTQ rights movement, and the wrenching 1985 drama Buddies, the first feature film to tackle the AIDS crisis.īressan himself succumbed to complications related to AIDS in 1987, following a prolific period in which the native New Yorker directed ten films in ten years. For several years, Olson and the Bressan Project have worked to restore the films of pioneering gay filmmaker Arthur J. The journey down the virtual video aisles of streaming platform PinkLabelTV began with a message from Jenni Olson, filmmaker, film historian, and co-director of the Bressan Project. I masked and distanced, marched and protested, hiked through a forest and laid on a beach. I mourned a death in the family, along with the deaths of many I didn’t know. I also worked from home, at seemingly all hours, and tried to keep up with the world’s deluge of conflict and disruption. I didn’t just watch porn all summer, of course, but I watched more porn than usual. Perhaps there are those who’d decline or scoff at the opportunity.
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