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When John Rechy's explosive first novel appeared in 1963, it marked a radical departure in fiction, and gave voice to a subculture that had never before been revealed with such acuity. It earned comparisons to Genet and Kerouac, even as Rechy was personally attacked by scandalized reviewers. Nevertheless, the book became an international bestseller, and fifty years later, it has become a classic. Bold and inventive in style, Rechy is unflinching in...
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English
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After a convalescence Charlotte Heath, leaves her husband's family mansion to find him kissing another woman. Shocked she leaves for the city and goes to her friend, former cook for the family, who works at the Beechmont. She discovers that the Beechmont is a male brothel where she masters her illness, becomes comfortable with her desires, and learns to deal with her patronizing husband.
Author
Publisher
Viking
Pub. Date
1998
Physical Desc
272 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
As she attempts to carry out a dying woman's last wish, Dr. Clare Burtonall is caught in the underworld of drugs and murder. She is only saved from death by the fast thinking of the male prostitute who serves as her lover.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
2011
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (350 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Set in the (still) recession-plagued suburbs of Detroit, Hung continues to revolve around the unorthodox efforts of divorced teacher/coach Ray Drecker to generate extra cash - by selling his 'winning tool' to desperate women. Includes bonus features.
Publisher
HBO Home Video
Pub. Date
c2010
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (315 min.) : sd., col., 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
High school basketball coach Ray Drecker lives in a Detroit devastated by the decline of the auto industry. After an electrical fire destroys his home, he loses custody of his kids to ex-wife Jessica; joins forces with poet-turned-pimp Tanya, with whom he once had a fling; and becomes a male escort.
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English
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In a damp, old Sussex castle, American literary phenomenon Stephen Crane lies on his deathbed, wasting away from tuberculosis at the age of twenty-eight. The world-famous author has retreated to England with his wife, Cora, in part to avoid gossip about her ignominious past as the proprietress of an infamous Florida bordello, the Hotel de Dream. In the midst of gathering tragedy, Crane begins dictating what will surely be his final work: a strange...
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English
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Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time hustler Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
Series
Criterion collection volume 277
Language
English
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Mike is a sensitive narcoleptic who dreams of the mother who abandoned him. Scott is a wayward son of the mayor of Portland and the object of Mike's desire. Navigating a volatile world of junkies, thieves, and johns, Mike takes Scott on a quest from the grungy streets to the open highways of the Pacific Northwest, in search of an elusive place called "home". A stirring look at unrequited love and life at society's margins.
Publisher
Touchstone Home Video
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (88 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
A professional fish tank cleaner, Deuce finds himself in desperate need of cash to quickly repair the damage he's done to a client's luxurious Malibu apartment! Deuce decides the only way out of this jam is to switch to the world's oldest profession.
12) Midnight cowboy
Publisher
MGM Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
2006
Edition
Widescreen collector's ed.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 113 min.) : anamorphic, sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Joe Buck moves to New York from Texas to make his fortune servicing women. Instead, he's conned into partnering up with small-time huslter Ratso Rizzo. Living together on the tattered edges of society, these two outcasts develop an unlikely bond that helps them transcend their cruel existence.
14) Sexual healing
Author
Publisher
Agate Pub
Pub. Date
c2003
Physical Desc
318 p. ; 24 cm.
Language
English
15) She hate me
Publisher
Sony Pictures Classics
Pub. Date
c2005
Edition
Anamorphic widescreen format (1:85:1).
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (139 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Executive John Henry "Jack" Armstrong gets fired when he blows the whistle on his bosses' business dealings. Desperate to make a living, he accepts his lesbian ex-girlfriend's offer for cash to impregnate her and soon he has a line seeking his services.
16) American gigolo
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Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
[2000]
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (116 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
"Julian Kay is on the prowl and looking for someone to please. Boyish and sensual, he speaks five or six languages, and is equally comfortable as a chauffeur for a wealthy middle-aged matron, and as a translator/companion for the lonely wife of an eecutive. He is the American gigolo. But Julian's love-for-sale lifestyle turns deadly when a client is murdered and Julian becomes the prime suspect."--Container.
17) Sauvage/wild
Publisher
Strand Releasing
Pub. Date
[2019]
Physical Desc
1 videodisc (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
Français
Description
Leo trades in love as much as lust and wanders through his life without rules or restrictions. Through a series of encounters that offer a glimpse into the complicated and visceral world of male sex work, Leo finds himself searching for affection anywhere he can get it, whether it's the unrequited love for his hustler friend Ahd or in the arms of an older, vulnerable client. Will Leo choose his freedom and the dangers that come with it, or the comforts...
Publisher
Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2012
Edition
Widescreen.
Physical Desc
2 videodiscs (ca. 261 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
Ray and his unlikely pimp Tanya are taking matters into their own hands in the face of a recession-plagued economy by opening the 'Happiness Consultants Wellness Center for Woman', a front for their gigolo business complete with seminars run by Tanya and private consultations with Ray. As their business begins to yield dividends, Lenore seeks revenge upon Ray and Tanya for stealing her lifestyle idea, and transforms a 25-year-old busboy named Jason...
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Publisher
Exclusively distributed by Oscilloscope
Pub. Date
[2014], ©1967
Edition
Blu-ray edition.
Physical Desc
1 blu-ray disc (110 min.) : sound, black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
Language
English
Description
This portrait of Jason Holliday, a black gay prostitute who dreams of a career as a nightclub performer, is drawn from twelve consecutive hours of filming in a New York City apartment. The documentary presents a view of what it was like to be coloured and gay in 1960's America.
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