Chicago, IL -
Wolfe is proud to announce the DVD release of "Gay Sex in the 70s", a halcyon look back at the steamy early days of the modern gay liberation movement from Peabosy Award-winning producer/director Joseph Lovett. An indie box office smash and a hit at dozens of film festivals, "Gay Sex in the 70s" pre-books on April 25, 2006 and streets on June 6, 2006.
Hailed by critics and audiences alike, "Gay Sex in the 70s" director 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.
As the men continue to reminisce, the story deepens. It wasn’t just about sex, they discovered, but about creating friendships and a community that never existed before. 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. It was also a time of brotherhood and laying the foundation of a political movement with its biggest battles still ahead. 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.
The DVD edition will include an extensive photo gallery of archival images from the period, as well as the original theatrical trailer and more. The DVD presents the theatrical 4x3 letterbox format and 2.0 Dolby sound.
After ten years serving one of the top producer/directors for ABC News and 20/20,where he produced the first in-depth investigative report on the AIDS crisis to air on network television, Peabody Award-winner Joseph Lovett founded Lovett Productions in 1989. The company produced over 30 hours of prime time television specials in the past fifteen years, including HBO’s Three Sisters: Searching for the Cure, which premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and the new HBO global warming documentary Too Hot NOT To Handle. Other recent projects include State of Denial, a feature documentary on AIDS in South Africa for PBS that screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Also at 20/20, he produced and directed many profiles including Armand Hammer, Jehan Sadat, the Duvaliers, Mike Tyson, Diana Ross, Suzanne Somers, and Michael Jackson.
Hailed by critics and audiences alike, "Gay Sex in the 70s" director 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.
As the men continue to reminisce, the story deepens. It wasn’t just about sex, they discovered, but about creating friendships and a community that never existed before. 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. It was also a time of brotherhood and laying the foundation of a political movement with its biggest battles still ahead. 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.
The DVD edition will include an extensive photo gallery of archival images from the period, as well as the original theatrical trailer and more. The DVD presents the theatrical 4x3 letterbox format and 2.0 Dolby sound.
After ten years serving one of the top producer/directors for ABC News and 20/20,where he produced the first in-depth investigative report on the AIDS crisis to air on network television, Peabody Award-winner Joseph Lovett founded Lovett Productions in 1989. The company produced over 30 hours of prime time television specials in the past fifteen years, including HBO’s Three Sisters: Searching for the Cure, which premiered at the 2004 Tribeca Film Festival and the new HBO global warming documentary Too Hot NOT To Handle. Other recent projects include State of Denial, a feature documentary on AIDS in South Africa for PBS that screened in competition at the Sundance Film Festival in 2003. Also at 20/20, he produced and directed many profiles including Armand Hammer, Jehan Sadat, the Duvaliers, Mike Tyson, Diana Ross, Suzanne Somers, and Michael Jackson.
