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Director: DiFeliciantonio, Tina
Year: 1986
Synopsis: The compelling story of Todd, a young San Franciscan with AIDS, and the people who provided him with practical and emotional support during the last months of his life.

Director: Mach, Henry
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Inevitable Love is an erotic, explicit story of two supposedly straight male friends and wrestling partners who go their separate ways, have a number of gay sexual experiences, and end up reunited, passionately, inevitably in love.The settings are familiar to erotic film fans—an army barracks, a gymnasium, a restroom, the grubby dressing room where factory workers hang out, the front seat of a car—but the action is different. Some is very quiet and sensual involving feathers and whipped cream. Some is more raunchy and some is just fun, including a strip poker game. It's all related to the story of Hal, who runs off to grad school, and Gary, who joins the army. Gary makes love with his army buddies, with Casey Donovan in the car, and with coworkers, all the while writing letters to Hal, wanting to come out to him but never being able to. Gary's life takes a romantic route as he becomes involved with a respected—and very sensual—gay activist and writer. The producers call Inevitable Love a healthy sex video because they've chosen to portray a wider spectrum of sex—intercourse with condoms for one—than can be currently be called absolutely safe. Still, this is an important new step in erotic filmmaking and a film that shows how easily we can modify our behavior.

Director: Mach, Henry
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Inevitable Love is an erotic, explicit story of two supposedly straight male friends and wrestling partners who go their separate ways, have a number of gay sexual experiences, and end up reunited, passionately, inevitably in love.The settings are familiar to erotic film fans—an army barracks, a gymnasium, a restroom, the grubby dressing room where factory workers hang out, the front seat of a car—but the action is different. Some is very quiet and sensual involving feathers and whipped cream. Some is more raunchy and some is just fun, including a strip poker game. It's all related to the story of Hal, who runs off to grad school, and Gary, who joins the army. Gary makes love with his army buddies, with Casey Donovan in the car, and with coworkers, all the while writing letters to Hal, wanting to come out to him but never being able to. Gary's life takes a romantic route as he becomes involved with a respected—and very sensual—gay activist and writer. The producers call Inevitable Love a healthy sex video because they've chosen to portray a wider spectrum of sex—intercourse with condoms for one—than can be currently be called absolutely safe. Still, this is an important new step in erotic filmmaking and a film that shows how easily we can modify our behavior.

Director: Atlas, Charles
Year: 1986
Synopsis: Michael Clark, the sexy, internationally acclaimed twenty-three-year-old "rock star" of the British dance world is the subject of Hail the New Puritan, produced by Charles Atlas for Channel 4 in Great Britain. Atlas employs a fictional/documentary style to present a wild chronicle of a day in Clark's life. Clever shooting and editing accentuate the superb dancing of Clark's company and the unabashed sexuality that infuses the punk star's work.Hail the New Puritan begins with a skillfully executed dream sequence and follows Clark from waking through returning home at dawn the following morning. During this very active day Clark charms his way through an interview with a dance critic, works out with his company, performs in a surreal skit with members of the post-punk band The Fall, travels to a cemetery to participate in the filming of an underground featurette, has an erotic encounter in a mirrored bedroom, leads the action at a nightclub and finally heads home, where he dances to exhaustion to Elvis Presley's "Are You Lonesome Tonight." At the heart of Hail the New Puritan are ten principal dance sequences that Atlas weaves into a colorful time capsule of the punk scene of 1980s London.

Directors: Aldighieri, Merril
Tripician, Joe
Year: 1986
Synopsis: A gay male erotic music video which is part of a longer work, Chance of a Lifetime, to be shown later this evening. This segment depicts group sex against a background of gray metal grid, bodies standing out like living sculpture in an industrial environment.

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