- Summary: Documentary producer/director Joseph Lovett focuses his lens on the unbridled sexual passion and exploration that marked the twelve years from Stonewall (1969) to the first reported cases of AIDS (1981). (Lovett Productions)
- Director: Joseph F. Lovett
- Genre(s): Documentary
- More Details and Credits »
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 14 out of 17
-
Mixed: 3 out of 17
-
Negative: 0 out of 17
-
83The director, Joseph Lovett, wants us to ask if there's such a thing as too much freedom, and he has the sobriety to say yes -- and no.
-
80Lovett's film is a finely balanced and loving work of history, which never tries to sugarcoat elements of the explosion of gay sexuality three decades ago that may seem excessive or disturbing to some contemporary viewers.
-
Survivors of the 70s may find their memories stirred by tales of cruising Studio 54 and the Saint, of abandoned piers and empty Allied vans; younger viewers may be fascinated by the contrast between these balding middle-aged men and their black-and-white snapshots, showing them in tight jeans, flannel shirts, long hair, and Zapata mustaches.
Score distribution:
-
Positive: 4 out of 7
-
Mixed: 0 out of 7
-
Negative: 3 out of 7
-
JakeG.10
-
-
Jim10Absolutely fabulous. Laughed the entire way through. Important piece of gay history.
-
-
JimG.3Gay sexual rebellion remembered with more nostalgia for the sex than for the rebellion makes this gay man more cowed than proud.
-