(segment "First Time Round") (archive footage)
This well-edited and narrated retrospective of gay fuck flick pioneer filmmaker J. Brian (Brian J. Donohue) sparkles precisely because of what it lacks: the artist himself, speaking in his own words. This serious omission allows the artist's work to speak both for him and for itself, and allows the viewer a freshness unencumbered by bias. The work, five films and seven vignettes, speaks loudly of J. Brian's vision of youth, sexual freedom, and naturalism unfettered by society or its constraints.
A victim of gay rape questions his sexual orientation. In a Hollywood gay bar he meets fun lovers, the broken hearted, the flamboyant, the hustler, and the caring. He meets a man who is gentle and realizes he is learning to love.
