"Hello. This is Rock Hudson. Could you send over two blond hooker boys for me to fuck in the ass?  (pause) Yes, that Rock Hudson. Better make that four boys, Sal Mineo, Roddy McDowell and Merv Griffin are coming over to go swimming. 8 o'clock? That'll be great. Thanks."

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The survey question for January 2010 was "When did you come out?", which is a slight variation of asking someone their age. People come out as gay at different points in their lives. The younger generation that grew up with "Will and Grace" and Ellen Degeneres on TV are able to acknowledge their homosexual tendencies at a younger age than previous generations. Many older gay men waited until they were away at college or established in a career before they took at chance at being open about their sexuality.

The other reason I thought this was a good question for a vintage gay porn website is because the first erotic images you see when you come out will probably influence your taste for the rest of your life. The names of the top porn stars during a certain period change as well as the style of photograph and film making.

For me, the style of clothes, hair and interior design from the 1970's is what peaks my interest in vintage porn. For others, it's the body style of the pre-steroid and pre-tattoo days, the shaved crotch vs. unshaved crotch debate, or for others it's the innocence of softcore no-pentration 1960's. And moving in the other direction, the younger guys who only grew up with condoms in gay porn in the late 1990's are curious about the pre-condom days.

So here are the decidedly UN-scientific results of my survey "When did you come out?"

1970's - 30.7%

1980's - 25%

1990's - 20.5%

1960's - 14.8%

Yesterday! - 9.1%

You can ignore the ones that responded with "Yesterday!" because they were probably just trying to be funny. VintageBareback.com is a pretty good website, but I don't think it actually instantly turned any straight men gay.

The new survey for February should be fun to watch. The topic is "muscle guys vs. twinks", so I am curious to see which way it goes.

I just scanned a magazine from the 1960's called "69 Sunset Strip", which was probably an homage to the popular TV series "77 Sunset Strip" which ran on ABC from 1958-1964. The introduction to the magazine says,

"The 1920's Gingerbread style apartment house at 69 Sunset Strip has to be the swingingest, gayest 10 stories in West Hollywood, or anywhere. It counts among its tenants artists and actors (the retired superstar dating from the silents), insurance executives who spend their evenings in Western or leather togs (one has redecorated his bedroom dungeon style), a model agency, three transvestites, and two cock photographers. The parade of handsome males past the rococo lobby's potted palms equals the crowd at West Hollywood's popular gay bars, just over on Santa Monica Blvd."

Why did they choose to parody "77 Sunset Strip", the prototype for private detective shows in the late 50's and early 60's starring Efram Zimbalist, Jr.? My guess is the blond guy (see top photo) resembles Edd "Kookie" Byrnes, who was a major male sex symbol at the time. Next door to the fictional detective agency at 77 Sunset Strip was a restaurant called Dino's, and IMDB says,

"Seen often was Dino's parking lot attendant, a gangling, jive-talking youth named Kookie (Edd Byrnes), who longed to be a private detective himself and who often helped Stu and Jeff on their cases. Kookie provided comic relief for the series, and his "Kookie-isms" became a trademark... But it was Edd Byrnes' character of Kookie who caught the public's fancy and propelled the show into the top ten. In the first telecast of the 1959-1960 season he helped Stu Bailey catch a jewel thief by staging a revue, in which he sang a novelty song called,"Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb". The song was released on record as a duet between Byrnes and Connie Stevens(who also starred on another Warner Bros. detective series,"Hawaiian Eye",which was on the same network), became a smash hit making Byrnes' character of Kookie, the "Fonzie" of his day, making him a very popular celebrity."

"Edd found escape from family problems at the movies and at the gym, where he developed an athletic body. At age 17 he was approached by a man who offered to take free "physique" photos of him. According to Edd's 1996 autobiography, "Kookie No More", this led to a few years of "hustling" older, well-to-do men, despite the fact that Edd was heterosexual. One of these men acted as Edd's mentor, introducing him to fashion and culture and encouraging his hopes for an acting career."

"Viewers quoted his dialog, ("Baby, you're the ginchiest!"), and young males imitated the way he wielded his ever-present comb. His fan mail soon reached an astonishing 15,000 letters a week and his single with Connie Stevens, "Kookie, Kookie, Lend Me Your Comb", became a top-5 hit. The hip-talking, hair-combing image clung to him, however, and Edd felt he lost the lead in PT 109 (1963) because President John F. Kennedy didn't want to be played by "Kookie." A few more movies and TV appearances followed, but his career had passed its peak before he turned 30."

"In 1975, Merv Griffin hired Edd to host a new game-show called "Wheel of Fortune" (1975/I). Two half-hour pilots were filmed. NBC bought the show but didn't want Byrnes as host. Griffin replaced him with Chuck Woolery (who was later replaced with Pat Sajak)."

I was old enough to remember the song, and even old enough to think he was kinda hot, but all that. I remember the mannerisms of him combing that hair caught on, and pocket combs became a necessary accessory to carry at all times.

"69 Sunset Strip" (the magazine) has three pairs of hot young guys that supposedly represent the swinging residents of the gay old building. The photos and action are so hot, I actually had to look at it again before I noticed that there is no penetration! It's that hot! There are 75 very sharp, clear images (sorry, just shy of 77...) mostly in black and white, available to VIP Members.

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If you are a new visitor to Vintage Bareback, take a look at the section entitled "About This Site". It explains the how's and why's of creating this site, and I think it's quite and interesting story. As I go along, I hope to include more research into the history and personalities of gay porn from the 1950's to the 1970's.

Up until sometime in the early to mid-1990's, gay porn movies and magazines were thought of as disposable, and the industry was also very underground. Anyone working in the porn industry from directors to models had mysterious stage names and not much was known about the personalities and inner working of the business. It's only been within the past few years, and thanks to the internet, that people are finally starting to connect the dots. Though this site won't be the definitive archive of information, I will at least share with you the facts that I know.

VintageBareback.com is a part of Lavender Lounge Studios, and a spin-off of the long running gay adult mega-site, Lavenderlounge.com. Vintage Bareback was created as a repository for my vast collection of 8mm gay porn movies and hardcore magazines from the Golden Age. Take a look at the FREE sample video to give yourself a taste of the site. All videos available in the VIP Room of this site are streamed with the latest versions of Flash and easily play at full screen size.

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I created a gallery entitled "DSI 1" in the members' section with 85 (mostly) nude images from the early 1960's. The magazines were very well produced on quality paper and they took the effort to "design" the pages of the magazines. Although the graphic styles are fairly primitive compared to what modern eyes are used to, it's interesting to see how graphic design evolved. Look at the page with three shots of the same guy. Without Photoshop, each of those images was cut out with scissors and pasted onto a matte board. Some of the shadows were hand-drawn, too. The craftmenship will be more apparent when you see the larger version in the VIP Room.

I also did a little research into the company, DSI, and found some fascinating information about these gay porn pioneers. 

In 1963 in Minneapolis, Lloyd Spinar and Conrad Germain founded Directory Services, Inc. (DSI), a mail order catalog company for gay male consumers. Over the next decade, they sold books, records, jewelry, clothing, greeting cards and other items to thousands of gay men around the United States and abroad. Their “Vagabond Club” provided its members with a penpal service, a credit card for making catalog purchases, and one of the first directories of gay bars throughout the U.S. By 1968 the club featured plans to open facilities in major cities, “where club members and their guests can enjoy fabulous stag shows, delightful dining, and other entertainment.” But the heart of the DSI enterprise was the publication of an extensive series of physique magazines featuring the first male frontal nudes.

With the intent of challenging American censorship laws, Spinar and Germain were arrested in 1967 and tried on numerous counts of obscenity. Their vindication by a federal district court was a landmark obsenity case that radically transformed the ability of gay men to consume homoerotic images.

Europe had put out nudist mags for years, but DSI (founded and run by Conrad Germain and Lloyd Spinar) were the first in the U.S. to do so. They were arrested, fought all the court battles, and in 1965-7 won (acquitted on all 29 counts brought by the U.S. government) the decision making male nudity legal in the U.S.

Hal Call of the Mattachine Society of San Francisco was instrument in connecting the defendants with key expert witnesses such as Wardell Pomeroy, who had been associated with Kinsey's Institute for Sex Research and in developing their legal strategy. In July 1967, the court ruled these materials did "not exceed the limits of candor" and "the rights of minorities expressed individually in sexual groups or otherwise must be respected". 

Soon afterward, Hal Call opened the Adonis Bookstore with partners Robert Trollop, Jack Tennyson, and Bob Damron. San Francisco's first gay venue sold bold magazines such as "Golden Boys" (from Calafran Enterprises owned by Damron/Trollop) and homosexual literature. The storefront also was a good recruiting ground for male models as well as Mattachine activists.

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