Activist and visual artist Leo Herrera’s new short film 3 Eras Of Gay Sex In 3 Minutes presents the unique ways in which gay people have communicated over the decades, from pre-Stonewall cruising, to the hardcore leather/BDSM of the ’70s and ’80s, to present day app usage.
“This film is about sharing a facet of our history that is rarely represented in mainstream gay media,” Herrera says in a press release. “While I applaud the strides we’ve made in our mainstream visibility, it sometimes comes at the expense of our sexuality.”
“Gay fetish is treated as a punchline, or punished with disease,” he continues. “The drag queens and gay characters I see on television do not represent what I see at Folsom Street Fair, or at a Brooklyn gay warehouse party on a Saturday night or any of the Eagles in the country. There is an inherent romance to cruising, a jolt of electricity to our secrets and codes, that’s what this clip is about.”
3 Eras Of Gay Sex In 3 Minutes is a followup to Herrera’s 2013 short film The Fortune Teller, which depicted 50 years of gay history in five minutes.
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sfhally
Would have watched it but it’s Vimeo which takes forever and runs in jumps and starts. Too bad.
robho3
Kinda cool video
Ronbo
I’ve been around for over 30 years and that clip represents a cologne ad more than anything else.
“Ru Paul’s Beach… it’s not what you smell, it’s what you smell like!”
DonW
Disappointing. After the tantalizing first five seconds, there’s nothing remotely sexy about the video.
Hermes
Sorry, I find nothing at all enticing about “crusing” – I didn’t when I was 14, 20, 30 and I don’t now. Gay or straight (and yes, there is straight cruising) it represents a failure of the basic human need for community and affection – not something even vaguely compared to a “jolt of electricity.” He can keep his 3 minute film, it in no way represents any sex I’ve ever had, and I’ve had quite a bit – though not one bit of it with a random partner that I “cruised” – thanks.
jwtraveler
I don’t get it. Was that a trailer for a film about the BDSM scene? Seems pretty stereotyped to me. I certainly don’t recognize my sex life in that clip at all.
damon459
Well that’s 3 minutes of my life I’ll never get back…
blackberry finn
@Hermes: Thank you for allowing us to marvel at the wonder that is you
CCTR
What a very interesting, artistic, and evolutionary look at modern gay sex particularly the aspects which usually are only spoken about in secrecy if even talked about at all. I’ll have to check out this guy’s other short film.