Quasi-Porno Of The Week: Gay Sex In the 70s

Showing now at gay and lesbian film festivals across the country, Gay Sex in the ’70s probably won’t be the movie of the week on Fox Family, we predict fearlessly. But it’s one of those queer documentaries that smart guys and horny guys alike can appreciate, as it shows a major nostalgic hard-on for the pre-HIV gay world (and underworld) of New York City, all captured and remembered from the years between the 1969 Stonewall riots and the first reported case of AIDS in 1981.

Former 20/20 producer Joseph Lovett culls it all: There’s sex on subways, sex in the back of parked trucks, sex on dance floors, and even more cunningly, sex in a bed. Larry Kramer and Tom Bianchi show up in appropriate cameo doses. Even if you were never envious of the disco-n-drugs era, its hard to argue with the fact that there’s just more sex, more cruising, more body hair and definitely, more repeated-fisting injuries than you’d see in a year’s worth of outings to today’s Lure.

Take a look at the official Web site, or at three trailers from the film here. (Yes, the advertising roadblocks at iFilm suck, but you won’t see this one by feeding dollar bills into a slot, now, will you?)