书本马戏团2.0
类型:记录
地区:美国
年份:2019
主演:Karen Mason Barry Mason 瑞秋·梅森 Josh Mason Micah Mason Alexei
导演:瑞秋·梅森
更新:2023-08-05
简介:
p In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support the
p In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US.br/ The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis.br/ Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician./p
详情