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  • Summary: Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz and his friend Michael Callen, supported by controversial AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend, began urging gay men to avoid unprotected sex as early as 1982 -- and were treated as pariahs by the mainstream gay community. Berkowitz is a fascinating, prickly, decidedly unsaintly character, and Wein's film provides a fascinating and crucial slice of traumatic sexual history that's all but invisible to younger generations. (Regent Releasing)… Expand

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  1. San Francisco Chronicle
    Reviewed by: David Wiegand
    100
    Superb new documentary.
  2. Village Voice
    Reviewed by: Melissa Anderson
    70
    It helps that Wein's subject is such a fascinating, garrulous paradox.
  3. New York Daily News
    Reviewed by: Elizabeth Weitzman
    60
    Intermittently compelling biography.

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