The short film celebrates the history and power of gay sex, fetish, and cruising.
“3 ERAS of GAY SEX in three minutes”- Viral Valentine Film Celebrates THE ANNALS and Power of Gay Sex, Fetish & Cruising
An Original Three-minute Film by Leo Herrera Visually Spans THE ANNALS of Homosensual Communication from Pre-Stonewall to provide Day.
Leo Herrera, a NYC-based visual designer, filmmaker, writer and advocate with a focus on cataloging and presenting gay background, today announced his latest work “3 ERAS of GAY SEX in 3 Minutes” a genuine piece illustrating 3 decades of homosexual sex in three-minutes, featuring Pre-Stonewall cruising; 1970’s/80’s Leather BDS&M; and CURRENT App utilization, filmed in NYC and SAN FRANCISCO BAY AREA.
Instead of presenting gay history as sexless or focusing exclusively on AIDS, the film celebrates Gay Communication in its most sensual form, through the glances, codes and technological breakthroughs which have allowed gay sex and gay communities to flourish through generations of oppression.
Taking us on a period machine into archetypes of Gay Making love and the unspoken communication methods of these communities, “3 ERAS of GAY SEX in three minutes” informs us and a wider audience, of the rich sexual history of the modern gay male; the symbolism and power of our once ‘key’ encounters; and a glance in to the infrastructure of deviant gay communities that are the foundations for the modern gay civil rights movement.
There is a love for gay culture and iconography that vibrates in the film, from the setting of historic landmark Julius, the SF army barracks and a sex dungeon, to the soundtrack, which features poetry from Walt Whitman, Truman Capote and human pup play master, Pup Boss Jyan. The film stars Gay Hip-Hop musician, Rikki Crowley and HIV Activist Zachary Barnett. It touches upon the styles of technology, PrEP, the wardrobe and homosexual S&M in ways that’s tasteful and intimate.
“This film is about sharing a facet of our history that is rarely represented in mainstream gay media,” said Herrera. “While I applaud the strides we’ve manufactured in our mainstream presence, it sometimes comes at the expense of our sexuality. Homosexual fetish is treated as a punchline, or punished with disease. The move queens and homosexual characters I see on television do not represent what I see at Folsom Road Fair, or at a Brooklyn homosexual warehouse party on a Saturday evening or 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 approximately.”
“The idea that as a culture we DO have a past, present and future is something that is very, very powerful. We didn’t emerge from nowhere, and we haven’t been standing around waiting around to be “accepted”, and we aren’t this monolithic culture that will just be part of any “mainstream”, there are too many facets and subcultures. Who better to inform these stories than ourselves.”
The film is a followup to Leo’s “The Lot of money Teller,” the 2013 Satisfaction Month Viral hit that presented 50 many years of Homosexual History in 5 minutes, garnering 50,000 hits during Homosexual Pride Week.
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