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Fresh:16
Rotten:8
Average Rating:6.3/10
Theatrical Release:Nov 4, 2005 Limited
Synopsis: Documentary producer/director Joseph Lovett focuses his lens on the unbridled sexual passion and exploration that marked the twelve years from Stonewall (1969) to the first reported cases of AIDS... [More]
Director: Joseph Lovett, Tom Bianchi
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An engrossing piece of social history, a lively, astonishingly well-documented excavation of that period between June 1969 and June 1981 when gay men in New York experienced a bacchanalian burst of sexual liberation.
The faces of that movement are what sell this story -- with enthusiasm, not regret.
Top CriticLovett's nostalgic paean to the erotic utopia of his youth.
Shows us the faces of some of the gay activists involved with that free love party scene who survived.
An unapologetic and accurate snapshot.
Gay Sex in the 70s is a blast.
The film is packed with fantastic archival footage.
Lacks narrative drive but is useful as an original source of info about gay rights.
Lovett employs bittersweet but blissful recollections of men who can only be described as survivors.
Top CriticAll the interviewees are terrific, battle-hardened storytellers whose experiences have made them wise and very funny.
Lovett backs up his assertion that the decade bracketed by the 1969 Stonewall riots, marking the beginning of gay liberation, and the emergence of AIDS in 1981 was 'the most libertine period the Western world has known since the Roman Empire.'
Top CriticThe conclusion is that in this bare-chested band of brothers, what really matters is camaraderie.
Top CriticIt's a worthwhile documentary on a worthy subject, one that is pursued painstakingly by director Joseph F. Lovett.
Lovett's lively, impassioned, well-structured documentary is enhanced by stacks of explicit photos and the reminiscences of men who lived through the decade.
The director, Joseph Lovett, wants us to ask if there's such a thing as too much freedom, and he has the sobriety to say yes -- and no.
Top CriticDespite the retrospective sensationalism, Lovett's 70-minute documentary is a sobering anti-erotic cautionary tale.
Top CriticIt's not exactly clear what the message is for the gay community of today, except to say, 'Those days were fun while they lasted and sorry you weren't around to experience it.'
Low on context and consequence if not sex appeal, Gay Sex in the 70s is only desirable if Fleshbot is having a slow gay news week.
[The film] falls in line with the celebratory doc fare often found at gay film festivals: sub-TV production values, middling archival footage, and a hesitancy to separate history from nostalgia in the course of enshrining the first-person record.
creating much more nostalgia than substance
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