The Golden Age of Cinema – Before & Afterĭuring the 80s, considered by many the Golden Age of cinema, the only avenue to consume gay content was primarily through art house and gay film festivals that mainly featured foreign actors. There was never even the discussion of a film with an expressly gay theme could be nominated for an Academy Award. It seems strange to think it now, but there was once a time in Hollywood where there were no gay or lesbian-themed sections in video stores, no queer movie festivals, and certainly no man-on-man sex scenes for full frontal nudity. And while nudity has come a long way from the earliest years of Tinseltown, gay sex depicted on screen has been nearly nonexistent – particularly among big budget pictures. As a result, there are still only a handful of A-list performers that have bared all on screen. Nudity in mainstream Hollywood movies has always been met with some trepidation on the parts of studios and actors, but also the producers that produce these multimillion dollar projects.
This article was published on March 25th, 2021
