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Leo Herrera, “3 Eras of Gay Sex in 3 Mins”

 

Leo Herrera, “3 Eras of Gay Sex in 3 Mins”

An Original Three-minute Film by Leo Herrera Visually Spans The History of Homosensual Communication from Pre-Stonewall to Present Day

Leo Herrera is an San Francisco-based visual artist, filmmaker, writer and advocate with a focus on cataloging and presenting gay history. His new project is “FATHERS”, a sci-fi short web series that imagines AIDS never happened, and a generation lived. His 2015 short, “3 ERAS of GAY SEX in 3 Minutes” is an original piece illustrating 3 generations of gay sex in three-minutes, featuring Pre-Stonewall cruising; 1970’s/80’s Leather BDS&M; and Present Day App usage, filmed in NYC and San Francisco.

Instead of presenting gay history as sexless or focusing solely on AIDS, the film celebrates Gay Communication in its most sensual form, through the glances, codes and technological breakthroughs that have allowed gay sex and gay communities to flourish through generations of oppression.

Taking us on a time machine into archetypes of Gay Sex and the unspoken communication methods of these communities, “3 ERAS of GAY SEX in 3 Minutes” informs us and a wider audience, of the rich sexual history of the modern gay male; the symbolism and power of our once ‘secret’ encounters; and a glimpse into the infrastructure of deviant gay communities that are the foundations for the modern gay civil rights movement.

“The idea that as a culture we do have a past, present and future is something that is very, very powerful. We didn’t come out of nowhere, and we haven’t been standing around waiting to be “accepted”, and we aren’t this monolithic culture that will just be part of any “mainstream”, there are too many facets and subcultures. Who better to tell these stories than ourselves.”- Leo Herrera

 

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Leo Herrera

Leo Herrera, “Magnum”

Leo Herrera is a Mexican NYC-based visual artist, filmmaker and GLBT advocate. His viral clips, art films and music videos have gathered over half a million views  and his advocacy work has focused on PrEP, HIV criminalization, stigma and the preservation of gay history.

“Filmmaker, writer, advocate, and all-around virtuoso of queer culture, Leo Herrera is documenting and preserving the richness of a community’s history that is, more times than not, overlooked by the generation that’s achieved the ability to convey the most complex, equivocal human emotions in three emojis or less.

The New York City-based visual artist has garnered over a half million hits from his art films and music videos, and has appeared in a slew of publications like The Huffington Post, Out, and i-D Fashion. His collaborations range over a global spectrum, all culminating in his effort to educate and tell the story of a bright future that we’re working so hard to create in the present, and honor those who paved the way for us in the past” .-Greg Mania, Posture

Visit Leo Herrera’s site for images and short films: http://www.homochic.com