Rough Trade: Art and Sex Work is an exhibit that opened this week in NYC. It explores a little known history at the crossroads of the sexual underground and popular culture and was organized to coincide with David Wojnarowicz: History Keeps Me Awake at Night at the [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Porn Filmmaker, Fred Halsted
July 18, 1941– Fred Halsted: "Sex is not 'coming,' that is superficial sex. Mine is personal cinema. I don't fuck to get my rocks off. In the best scenes I've ever had, I haven't come. I am not interesting in coming. I am interested in getting my head off, my emotions … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Porn Filmmaker, Fred Halsted
July 18, 1941– Fred Halsted was the son of a construction worker and a farm laborer. Even though he grew up in Long Beach, not all that far from the movie studios in Los Angeles, the idea of becoming a filmmaker was probably not on his mind while he was a youth. He … [Read more...]
#BornThisDay: Gay Porn Filmmaker, Fred Halsted
July 18, 1941- Fred Halsted was the son of a construction worker and a farm laborer. Even though he grew up in Long Beach, not all that far from the movie studios in Los Angeles, the idea of becoming a filmmaker was probably not on his mind while he was a youth. He attended … [Read more...]