Lured, however, by the men, the mood, and the attitude of the sexually liberated ’70s and ’80s, I stuck with the PinkLabelTV Classics, billed as “vintage adult film from the silver and golden age of porn.” Bressan’s work was a highlight of my trip back in time, but Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters were just the beginning. Practically all genders and tastes are celebrated in a collection spanning decades, up to some brand-new releases.
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As of this August, both are available exclusively on PinkLabelTV, either streaming on-demand or with a PinkLabelTV PLUS subscription.įounded in 2013 by queer feminist producer and director Shine Louise Houston, the PinkLabel platform is a treasure trove of indie adult entertainment, with diverse titles grouped into several appealing channels.
Two of them, Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters, represent the plot-driven gay male erotica Bressan is better known for, and are the latest of his films to be restored by the Bressan Project. Bressan, Jr., including his landmark 1978 documentary Gay USA, chronicling the LGBTQ rights movement, and the wrenching 1985 drama Buddies, the first feature film to tackle the AIDS crisis.īressan himself succumbed to complications related to AIDS in 1987, following a prolific period in which the native New Yorker directed ten films in ten years. For several years, Olson and the Bressan Project have worked to restore the films of pioneering gay filmmaker Arthur J.
The journey down the virtual video aisles of streaming platform PinkLabelTV began with a message from Jenni Olson, filmmaker, film historian, and co-director of the Bressan Project. I masked and distanced, marched and protested, hiked through a forest and laid on a beach. I mourned a death in the family, along with the deaths of many I didn’t know. I also worked from home, at seemingly all hours, and tried to keep up with the world’s deluge of conflict and disruption.
I didn’t just watch porn all summer, of course, but I watched more porn than usual. Perhaps there are those who’d decline or scoff at the opportunity. Wakefield Poole’s “Boys in the Sand” - Vintage Gay Adult FilmsĪt some point during the quarantine, a well-curated adult entertainment website approached me, offering access to peruse their voluminous catalog.