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Lot o (20) GAY Times Square ADULT THEATER Poster MAGNETS Vintage Beefcake Physique Muscle
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Lot of 20 magnets (or pins) featuring Gay Adult Theater / Movie Posters / Ads from Times Square in the late-1960's, 1970's & early-1980's. (1969–1984) They are 1-1/4" in diameter. (They can also be made as buttons / pins / pin-backs.)
Who needs boring refrigerator magnets when you can glance at these every time you reach for a beer or a glass of boxed wine. Dress up (or down) your office file cabinets, work bench, hot rod or anything metal with a little conversation starter?
The 20 films featured in this lot are:
Boys in the Sand
Brothers
Get That Sailor
A Sweet Taste of Youth
The Baredevils
The Magnificent Cowboys
Thunderheads
Any Boy Can
Devil in the Flesh
The Insatiables
Deep Compassion
The Intimate Rebels
The Fantastic Heroes
The Rivermen
The Last Tango in Hollywood
A Blue Summer Breeze
Reflections of an Indian Boy
The Grease Monkeys
Greek Lightning
The Night of the Occultist
A LITTLE HISTORY: Before Times Square was a global attraction, it was a home to sex shops, prostitution & drug dealers, earning a reputation as the sketchiest part of New York City. Gay Porn theaters found a home, where chaos & seediness reigned supreme. Initially arising as a cultural center of theaters, music halls, & boutique hotels, Times Square fell into disrepair during the Great Depression. Adult theaters & sexshops then took over while the neighborhood became an open market for prostitution & drugs in what would be known as the Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (around 1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, which spread internationally, in which sexually-explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, & the general public. It began with release of the 1969 film Blue Movie directed by Andy Warhol.
By 1984, Times Square was one of the most dangerous areas of the city, with over 2,300 crimes committed every year in a one-block radius. 96 "sex-oriented" businesses jostled for space & jockeyed for customers.
But everything changed in the following decade, when local municipalities, with the backing of the U.S. Supreme Court, began enacting regulations to push adult establishments away from schools, parks, churches, & residences. And in New York, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic spread & Times Square was reborn as a tourist destination, authorities clamped down on establishments where "risky sexual activities" were said to take place. Gay theater The Adonis, for example, on Eighth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, was closed by the Department of Health in January 1994.
Who needs boring refrigerator magnets when you can glance at these every time you reach for a beer or a glass of boxed wine. Dress up (or down) your office file cabinets, work bench, hot rod or anything metal with a little conversation starter?
The 20 films featured in this lot are:
Boys in the Sand
Brothers
Get That Sailor
A Sweet Taste of Youth
The Baredevils
The Magnificent Cowboys
Thunderheads
Any Boy Can
Devil in the Flesh
The Insatiables
Deep Compassion
The Intimate Rebels
The Fantastic Heroes
The Rivermen
The Last Tango in Hollywood
A Blue Summer Breeze
Reflections of an Indian Boy
The Grease Monkeys
Greek Lightning
The Night of the Occultist
A LITTLE HISTORY: Before Times Square was a global attraction, it was a home to sex shops, prostitution & drug dealers, earning a reputation as the sketchiest part of New York City. Gay Porn theaters found a home, where chaos & seediness reigned supreme. Initially arising as a cultural center of theaters, music halls, & boutique hotels, Times Square fell into disrepair during the Great Depression. Adult theaters & sexshops then took over while the neighborhood became an open market for prostitution & drugs in what would be known as the Golden Age of Porn, or porno chic, refers to a 15-year period (around 1969–1984) in commercial American pornography, which spread internationally, in which sexually-explicit films experienced positive attention from mainstream cinemas, movie critics, & the general public. It began with release of the 1969 film Blue Movie directed by Andy Warhol.
By 1984, Times Square was one of the most dangerous areas of the city, with over 2,300 crimes committed every year in a one-block radius. 96 "sex-oriented" businesses jostled for space & jockeyed for customers.
But everything changed in the following decade, when local municipalities, with the backing of the U.S. Supreme Court, began enacting regulations to push adult establishments away from schools, parks, churches, & residences. And in New York, as the HIV/AIDS epidemic spread & Times Square was reborn as a tourist destination, authorities clamped down on establishments where "risky sexual activities" were said to take place. Gay theater The Adonis, for example, on Eighth Avenue between 43rd and 44th Streets, was closed by the Department of Health in January 1994.
