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Directed by Wakefield Poole | 60 minutes | 18+ | 55th Anniversary |
10:45pm Saturday, 16 May | Balam Balam Place - Cinema 3 | Buy Tickets | Buy Passes
A landmark of gay erotica by visionary pornographer Wakefield Poole returns to the big screen!
Before Deep Throat, acclaimed Broadway dancer and director Wakefield Poole jumpstarted the Golden Age of Porn when he and producer Marvin Shulman four-walled the 55th Street Playhouse in New York City and released the gay feature Boys in the Sand in 1971. It was an immediate sensation, tripling its budget with crossover appeal beyond gay men to straight couples and celebrities (such as Angela Lansbury) and being reviewed in mainstream publications like Variety.
55 years later, it holds up as more than a historical artefact. Set in the Fire Island Pines and starring Casey Donovan in three summery erotic vignettes, Boys in the Sand is a joyous fantasy of queer paradise by the beach. Riding the post-Stonewall wave of LGBTQ+ activism, it presents gay life as pastoral, aesthetically beautiful, untouched by the prejudice of the real world. It’s a dream of defiance as much as sex (but there’s also a lot of sex).
SIMILAR: Bijou, Call Me By Your Name, the films of Kenneth Anger, Women in Revolt
"A must have for anyone interested in gay history or gay cinema." - Mike Kennedy, Letterboxd
"Pick your fave 70s detail: all the dudes are wearing cock rings or they all have untanned lily white butts." - NotASexyVamp, Letterboxd
CONTENT WARNING: Unsimulated sex
Country: United States
Year: 1971
Language: English