For two weeks in the summer of 1962, using a two-way mirror, police in the central Ohio town of Mansfield secretly filmed the activity in a public men's room in the town square. The surveillance recorded dozens of men having sex, resulting in more than 30 prosecutions for sodomy, with at least a year in prison time for each.
Shot without sound, in grainy color 16 mm, it's a stunning document. The men range in age from their 20s to their 60s. They are white and black, fat and thin, in a banker's suit or name-patched mechanic's uniform. Faces humorless, eyes on the door, they masturbate, give handjobs and blowjobs, and perform anal sex; a few exchange money. Michael Sicinski, in Cinema Scope magazine, called Tearoom "one of the most soberingly revelatory political films of recent years" and "a cinematic document of vital importance to the history of gay culture in the United States."
Jones has screened Tearoom internationally; it's also in the upcoming Whitney Biennial. With gay cruising much in the news (hello, Sen. Larry Craig), on Fri., Dec. 14, The Andy Warhol Museum screens the film. Also showing are "Camera Surveillance," a short film by the Mansfield police touting the surveillance operation, and "The Child Molester," a 1975 educational short by the Highway Safety Foundation.
"While this event is held every year to bring hope to millions of students, the murder of Lawrence King represents a literal and absolute definition of the silence many of them feel," said the Gay, Lesbian, and Straight Education Network, which sponsors the Day of Silence. The National Day of Silence will be held on April 25 this year.
The openly gay eighth-grader was shot by a fellow student in front of classmates in February in Oxnard, California. He died after being declared brain dead and life support was removed.
Brandon David McInerney, 14, has been charged with murder as a hate crime.
easy. Starting off in 1996 with Mardi Gras Cowboy (All Worlds), (which just came out on DVD) and Dr. Jerkoff & Mr. Hard (Big Video), he's the guy that you go to for hot sex performances and acting that doesn't make you laugh out loud, unless its supposed to. Maybe best remembered as one of the few 'mainstream' gay porn stars with a PA with a big ring through it. (Maybe only memorable for me since I once dated a guy with a comparable PA, and the difference in feeling cannot be described!) His last on-screen role appears to have been in 1997, so (at least for me), a lot of impression in a small amount of time.
because I enjoy his scene with Jay Anthony. What starts out as a a very physical fight ends up as great sex and love making by two characters that have been sniping at each other the whole flick. They celebrate their new found intimacy by cumming over a glass-top table. Overall, not my favorite Chi Chi LaRue movies, but it has a lot of my favorites, at the time.
The actor who made “Borat” famous is currently fiiming his movie “Bruno” about the over the top gay Austrian TV presenter who makes American people uncomfortable with his gayness. But the gay character's outrageous dress sense has not gone down too well with uptight Kansans and local newspapers have reported that a "European man" was "putting security on red alert" by "stripping down to tight shorts and dancing in the lobby of Wichita Airport".
And the high jinx hasn't ended there - Cohen and his crew are reported to have disrupted an Easter play at a Kansas church by turning up in "chains".
