"Homo for the Holidays"

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"Homo for the Holidays"

Advocate (12/15/92) No. 618, P. 62
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Abstract: A contest is being conducted to incorporate the powerful imagery of the gay male erotic video with an educational safer-sex outreach program. It is sponsored by the San Francisco AIDS Foundation, Falcon Studios, and the San Francisco-based nonprofit media-arts organization Frameline. Wayne Blankenship, the foundation's contest coordinator, said, "Erotic videos really have a stronghold on gay men's fantasies and about how we feel about real-life sex. Unfortunately, because of government funding, AIDS organizations are not able to be explicit with their material. We are expected to take a 'be a nice boy and have a safer sex' approach. Our goal with this project is to combine hot erotica with safer-sex information in a usable and practical way." The main focus of the contest is to minimize the risk of HIV transmission while promoting sex, said Blankenship. Contest judges will be determining which filmmakers apply the most creative safer-sex techniques in the films. The videos will first be judged by AIDS educators and will then be critiqued by professional video producers and pornography stars on the basis of artistic and erotic merit. The contest is currently in progress and will end on March 1, 1993.

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