Discover
Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz and his friend Michael Callen, supported by controversial AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend, began urging gay men to avoid unprotected anal sex as early as 1982 -- and were treated as pariahs by the mainstream gay community. Berkowitz is a fascinating, prickly, decidedly unsaintly character, and Wein's film provides a fascinating and crucial slice of traumatic sexual history that's all but invisible to younger generations.
Original Release
06/12/2009
US Release
06/12/2009
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Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Don Adler | Self |
| Richard Berkowitz | Himself / Self |
| Susan Brown | Self / Herself |
| Demetre Daskalakis | Self |
| Richard Dworkin | Self |
| William Haseltine | Self |
| Larry Kramer | Himself / Self |
| Ardele Lister | Self |
| Michael Lucas | Himself / Self |
| Francisco Roque | Self |
Directors
Cast
| Name | Character |
|---|
| Don Adler | Self |
| Richard Berkowitz | Himself / Self |
| Susan Brown | Self / Herself |
| Demetre Daskalakis | Self |
| Richard Dworkin | Self |
| William Haseltine | Self |
| Larry Kramer | Himself / Self |
| Ardele Lister | Self |
| Michael Lucas | Himself / Self |
| Francisco Roque | Self |
| Gabriel Rotello | Himself / Self |
| Joseph Sonnabend | Self |
| Bill Stackhouse | Self |
| Krishna Stone | Self |
| Sean O. Strub | Self / Himself |
| Edmund White | Himself / Self |
| Norma Connolly | Herself |
| Michael Callen | Himself (archive footage) |
Producers
| Name | Role |
|---|
| David Oliver Cohen | Producer |
| Zoe Lister-Jones | Producer |
| Daryl Wein | Producer |
Editors
