Fred Halsted
Director · 1941 – 1989 · Long Beach, California
Fred Halsted was an American gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner. His films Sex Garage and LA Plays Itself are the only gay pornographic movies in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where they were screened before a capacity audience on April 23, 1974.
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Movie7.0DocumentaryJonas Mekas assembles 160 portraits, appearances, and fleeting sketches of underground and independent filmmakers captured between 1955 and 1996. Fast-paced and archival in spirit, the film celebrates the avant-garde as its own “nation of cinema,” a vital community existing outside the dominance of commercial film.
Birth of a Nation
1997 · 4 votes
Movie4.0DocumentaryPersonal diary-style documentary of German Gay rights activist Von Praunheim's sojourn in the US.
Armee der Liebenden oder Revolte der Perversen
Army of Lovers or Revolt of the Perverts
1979 · 5 votes
Movie5.3HorrorFantasyA supposedly straight stud is given a guided tour through the seamy S&M underbelly of Hollywood’s glitzy socialite scene by his trans paramour.
Sextool
1975 · 6 votes
Movie6.8DramaHorrorTwo men have a fleetingly idyllic meeting outside of Los Angeles while Fred Halsted shows a young pick-up the ropes within city limits.
LA Plays Itself
1972 · 12 votes
Movie5.0DocumentaryThe film, narrated by "LA Plays Itself" director Fred Halstead, begins by looking at the muscle magazines and films of the late 1940s-early 1960s, then at the softcore films of the late 60s and the boundary-pushing and legal-testing which allowed these to evolve into hardcore loops and then features.
Erotikus: A History of the Gay Movie
1973 · 5 votes
Movie4.5DramaRomanceHank and Gene are fired from their trucker jobs at the Kansas City Trucking Company after an alcohol-fueled brawl.
El Paso Wrecking Corp.
1977 · 10 votes
MovieA night at Nighthawk, the hottest club in L.A., turns into a saga of leather and lust as Fred Halsted steals Paul Monroe's leather jacket -- and much more.
Movie9.0Fred Halsted spends a night pursuing Greg Dale — and others — at his after-hours Silverlake sex club, Halsted's.
A Night at Halsted's
1982 · 1 votes
MovieLooking for some solid gold all-male action? You'll find it here! Superstud Dan Pace has to get "worked up" for his big strip number and a stack of hand-on mags do the trick. Dan's fantasies come to life in one blistering scene after another.
Pieces of Eight
1980
Movie10.0Paul Monroe has taken over the reins from Fred Halsted and buys a used leather jacket and finds out an adventure comes with it. The odyssey of the jacket finds hot men in uninhibited scenes with sailors, leathermen, college jocks and hard muscled bodies as the saga of Nighthawk continues...
Revenge of the Nighthawk in Leather
1983 · 1 votes
MovieNavy petty officers J.W. King and R.J. Reynolds get an order from Lt. Strong: Break in Seaman Richie's throat and tail.
Three Day Pass
1981
MovieA group of friends swap festish-oriented stories.
Fast Friends
1987