These were the front runners to the later more traditional gay porn movies which grew in popularity and distribution after the sixties sexual revolution as both attitudes and laws towards both pornography and homosexuality started to relax. By the sixties underground filmmakers like Andy Warhol and Paul Morrissey were creating experimental underground movies with a lot of gay subtext or even overtly gay content, including Scorpio Rising (1963), Blow Job (1964), My Hustler (1968) and Flesh (1968). With the surprise being the ‘lady’ the man is having sex with is actually a man, it was not until a year or so later in another early gay porn movie, A stiff game when there was gay sex without the pretence of drag costume as a set up.īetween the early thirties and the sixties lots of gay pornography was produced but it was difficult to distribute as it was illegal, so much of the footage was available by word of mouth or mail order for those in the know only. Other early gay porn films included The Surprise of a Knight, released around 1929 and is the earliest known American gay hardcore porn movie. Based on the Opera ‘Madama Butterfly’ but with more gay, straight and bisexual sex this is the earliest anal male on male intercourse on film, and being French also includes humour and a number of fun double entendres throughout. The earliest known hardcore gay porn film was probably made by the French and was called Le ménage modern du Madame Butterfly, released in 1920.
Gay Porn is now so easy to come by, a quick search on google can find a huge range of porn sites, both free and paid for that it is easy to forget some of the early frontrunners of this delicious genre of movies.