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Jerry Douglas (director)

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Rutherford, George Duroy, etc.) and "Close-Up: Interviews with the Performers of Gay Pornography" (285 pages, interviews with more than 60 performers including Peter Berlin, Scorpio, Leo Ford, Kevin Williams, Richard Locke, Ken Ryker, Jeff Palmer, etc.) These are all interviews Douglas conducted and originally ran in "
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In 2021, Douglas (with co-editor Jeffrey Escoffier) published two massive books: "Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography" (475 pages; interviews with more than 30 directors, including William Huggins, Kristen Bjorn, Chi Chi LaRue, Steven Scarborough, Dirk Yates, John
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He did not make another film until 1989, when he was urged out of his self-imposed retirement by Rick Ford of All Worlds Video. Between 1989 and 2007, he made on average one film per year, six of which were named Best Picture by industry organizations such as the
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as the first example of homorealist gay pornographic cinema, which "created a synthesis of a documentary-like view (in this case focusing on the gay sexual subculture) and the more psychopolitical themes of sexual liberation."
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Douglas lived in New York City, where he married his partner of forty years, attorney John Stellar, in November 2011. He died on January 9, 2021, at the age of 85.
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In June 2022, Seidelman & Company published "The Collected Gay History Novels of Jerry Douglas," including
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then left the industry to focus on his career as a free-lance journalist and editor for such publications as
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of Berlin, Germany, in 2012. In 2019, Chelsea Station Editions published his play,
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Theatre scholar Jordan Schildcrout discusses Douglas' 1973 play
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Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography
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magazine from 1988 to 2001. His collection of short stories,
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Close-Up: Interviews with the Performers of Gay Pornography
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David Geffen School of Drama at Yale University alumni
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Jerry Douglas (disambiguation)

Des Moines, Iowa
pornographic films
Tubstrip
Casey Donovan
Grabby Awards
GayVN Awards
Drake University
Yale School of Drama
Radley Metzger
Score
Casey Donovan
George Payne
Andrea True
The Advocate
Adult Video New Awards
Grabby Awards
Joey Stefano
Dean Phoenix
Manshots
Bruno Gmünder Verlag
Manshots
The Deep Throat Sex Scandal
Score
Dream Team
Tubstrip
Jeffrey Escoffier
gay liberation
"Flavorwire Interview: Gay Adult Cinema Pioneer Jerry Douglas on Working with Radley Metzger, Making Porn in the Seedy '70s, and the Musical Quality of Sex Scenes"

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