3 Eras of Gay Sex in 3 Minutes celebrates the history of gay sex, fetish, and cruising. The short film stars gay hip-hop artist Rikki Crowley and HIV activist Zachary Barnett. The soundtrack includes poetry by Walt Whitman, a voiceover by Truman Capote, and human pup play master, Pup Boss Jyan.

 

“This film is about sharing a facet of our history that is rarely represented in mainstream gay media,” said artist Leo Herrera. “While I applaud the strides we’ve made in our mainstream visibility, it sometimes comes at the expense of our sexuality. Gay fetish is treated as a punchline, or punished with disease. The drag queens and gay characters I see on television do not represent what I see at Folsom Street Fair, or at a Brooklyn gay warehouse party on a Saturday night or any of the Eagles in the country. There is an inherent romance to cruising, a jolt of electricity to our secrets and codes, that’s what this clip is about.”

 

The film is a follow-up to Leo’s The Fortune Teller, a 2013 Pride Month video that presented 50 years of gay history in 5 minutes, getting over 50,000 hits during its first week up.