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Joseph Lovett
États-Unis 2005
68min English o.v.
“Gay is good” (finally!) and gets better in director/producer Joseph Lovett’s Gay Sex in the 70s. Delivering a remarkable portrait of the years between Stonewall (1969) and the first reported cases of AIDS (1981), Lovett examines the impact of decades of repression and violence that resolve themselves in a deluge of very public sex, with New York’s bars, baths, clubs, piers, saunas and trucks as its theatre. Employing a wealth of archival material, and interviews with Larry Kramer and Rodger McFarlane among others, he examines the interplay of pride, prejudice and promiscuity in gay liberation. As the stifling pre-Stonewall period gives way to an unbridled celebration of gay male sexuality, Lovett also investigates the complex relationship between integration and liberation. Narrated with humour, insight (and some nostalgia), Lovett’s documentary about paradise lost illuminates our current dilemmas around AIDS, bare-backing, and the resurgence of other STDs. Whether it’s a queer history lesson or a trip down memory lane, Gay Sex in the 70s is an insightful and compelling look at very special decade.
Shown on:
friday, november 11, 7H00 PM parisien 6 - pgm60 (Bigger + Gay Sex in the 70s)