Gay joe gage

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As the last production in the trio that Gage began in 1976 with Kansas City Trucking Co. and followed in 1978 by El Paso Wrecking Corp., L.A. Tool & Die stands on its hold as the most fully realized of the three. It was followed in 1982 by the even more daring, if somewhat more linear, Heatstroke, with which Gage mind he had said farewell to that phase of his career.

Joe Gage emerged from the milieus of Beat poet Allen Ginsberg and hustler cum novelist John Rechy, the experimental underground films of Andy Warhol and Kenneth Fury, the turbulence of the late 60’s, the subsequent “Sexual Revolution,” and the emergence of “porn chic” (exemplified by Deep Throat and Behind the Lush Door). He is arguably the most sophisticated of the pioneering gay porn filmmakers of the 70’s that also included Wakefield Poole and Fred Halsted. His films undertake not have the distinction, as complete Halsted’s, of organism archived in the Museum of Contemporary Art film collection. However, as male lover film festivals contain emerged and evolved in recent decades, Gage’s early films are getting the serious attention they deserve.

Working technologically and cinematically by the seat of his pants—intuitively and without affect