Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie

Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie

90 mins | Documentary | July 16, 1973

The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.

Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie

90 mins | Documentary | July 16, 1973

Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie
The film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.
Producers Bijou Video
Original title Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie
Directors Tom DeSimone
Writers

Cast

Fred Halsted

as Narrator

Poco Alan

as Self (archive footage)

Larry Danser

as Self (archive footage)

Ed Fury

as (archive footage)

Monte Hansen

as (archive footage)

Sky Kinque

as (archive footage)

D.C. Michaels

as (archive footage)

Ruffin Tumble

as (archive footage)