Gay Sex in the 70s
Hailed by critics and audiences alike, Gay Sex in the 70sdirector Joseph Lovett focuses his story on New York City between 1969 and 1981, using amazing interviews with the men who lived it and stunning archival footage to take viewers back in time. Lovett takes us back to the piers, the trucks, the Central Park rambles, the back rooms, and the baths. It was a time where repression and fear were replaced by a sexual explosion, where shame became joy. It was the end of an era and the beginning of a movement.
Lovett interviews such luminaries from the scene as Larry Kramer and Tom Bianchi, as well as a wide range of men exploring their freedom at the time. For the first time, gay men were combining their public and private lives sex, work, life, and more; incorporating their dreams of the future with their innermost fantasies and desires.
But, storm clouds emerge as the men talk about sexual obsession, how drugs entered the scene at a larger scale, and how unusual sexually transmitted diseases began to appear. In recreating the gay story of the 70s, Lovett shows that AIDS was not the only legacy of this period. For younger people, those who came of age after the onset of the AIDS crisis, the film is a startling revelation of what everyday life was like in New York City at the time.
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