Chuck holmes seed money
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The legend behind Falcon Studios
Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall, and later became a major contributor to gay advocacy groups prefer the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, only to verb later in life that while his money was welcome in philanthropic circles, he sometimes wasn&#;t.
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MoreI have been wanting to see this documentary for ages but never been able to get my hands on it, thankfully I saw by accident on Instagram that Naked Sword were showing it for free this weekend, I jumped straight onto it. The film is a look at the beginning and rise of Falcon Studios, the leading gay porn company of the late 70s and 80s, its leader Chuck Holmes and its bevy of sexy boys who performed in the films. It’s subtitled ‘The Chuck Holmes Story’ but really this movie is just about the porn industry of the time, it’s not solely focused on Chuck Holmes the way it’s made to stare, and that’s ok because Chuck Holmes is
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by Johnny Ray Huston
Mike Stabile’s documentarySeed Moneytells the story of Chuck Holmes, the man behind the decades-dominant gay porn studio Falcon. It’s a story of sexual fantasy and iconography, and the lived reality behind it. Stabile’s movie reconnects the circuitry in the visual pleasure center of porn to reveal the conservative aspects of Holmes’s guide (the film’s critique of Falcon&#;s racial representation is particularly pointed), but it also emphasizes his contributions to gay rights and history as American society began to throw off the shackles, if not the deeply-set phobic prejudices, of the Reagan-Bush era. It’s a lesson worth learning as the contemporary gay movement flirts with — and often marries — chaste ideas of normalcy.
EatDrinkFilms:Amongst the many mavericks, auteurs and stars in gay porn, what drew you to Chuck Holmes as a subject? Partly based on the knowledge of the other porn docs that have been produced to date, were there areas you knew you wanted to investigate, and other approaches that you wanted to avoid? It’s an only-in-San-Francisco story: closeted Indiana boy heads for the gay mecca, comes out in the fabulous s, builds an adult-entertainment empire that redefines pretty-boy masculinity, befriends David Geffen and Bill Clinton, helps found the Human Rights Campaign, donates millions to community causes, succumbs to AIDS, and is honored as the namesake of the SF LGBT Center—all while indulging his obsession with hairless bubble butts in visionary porn epics. This bio, by turns salacious, poignant, and inspiring, belongs to infamous provocateur and philanthropist Chuck Holmes, the subject of the (a)rousing documentary Seed Money. As the founder of Falcon Studios, which made stars of a bevy of bronzed, blond Adonises, Holmes created hardcore extravaganzas like The Other Side of Aspen for the VHS-and-cocaine era. Holmes parlayed his success into fundraising and activism. Though LGBT groups were happy to hold his hard-earned moolah, they sometimes shunned their benefactor because of his background in the jizz biz. Today, Holmes is rightfully recognized as a hero both for liberati
The feature film in the 10 p.m. time slot was Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story, a documentary about the pioneering Gay pornographer and founder of Falcon Studios, Chuck Holmes, framed with footage showing protesters (most of them Lesbians) picketing the opening of the &#;Charles E. Holmes Campus of the San Francisco LGBT Community Center&#; and protesting that the board of the Center had named their newest building after a pornographer &#; albeit a pornographer who had given them a hell of a lot of money. The film was directed by Michael Stabile, who turned up at the finish for a question-and-answer session that focused mainly on the difficulty of obtaining material for the film &#; by the period they started work on it Chuck Holmes was dead (he tested &#;HIV positive&#; in the tardy &#;s and held up until , and his exit was probably hastened by his high consumption of recreational drugs in the &#;s and experimental and highly dubious AIDS &#;treatments&#; in the &#;s), his associate and director