Gay Sex in the 70s

Joseph F Lovett's 2005 documentary declines to apologise for the promiscuous gay culture of pre-Aids New York, suggesting instead that what both the gay and straight worlds of the 21st century now find so fascinating about it is how pure sex could be so freely available. It's a period that has been hated and demonised for precipitating catastrophe, and for being a facile swirl of pleasure that was selfish and dangerous. Lovett takes a longer view. New York in the 1970s seems like an arena of nonstop gratification, but one that can only be understood in the context of the repression and fear that had gone before. It seems as distant as the 1890s.