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Gay Sex in the 70s
2005 · Film · documentary · 67 min
Directed by Joseph F. Lovett
A chronicle of gay culture in New York during the post-Stonewall, pre-AIDs era. Thirteen men and one woman look back at gay life and sex in Manhattan and Fire Island - from Stonewall (June, 1969) to the first reporting on AIDS (June, 1981). They describe the rapid move from repression to celebration, from the removal of shame to joy, the on-going search for "someone," the freedom before AIDS, the friendships, and brotherhood.
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You should watch the documentary Gay Sex in the 70s. Really watch it. One of the conclusions I came away with was that some kind of extremely troublesome STD was going to emerge from that particular situation. It happened to be HIV but it could have been something else entirely.
Anything where you have big globs of people exchanging bodily fluids over and over again is going to encourage the development of something infectious. It's the same reason that preschool tends to be a germ pit. If someone invented a sport called, I don't know, "Loogie Frisbee," where people stood around and took turns spitting into each other's mouths, I would expect some kind of oral infection to take off as the sport went pro.