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Friday, January 17, 2025

Fred Halsted


I don't know anything about Fred Halsted, but his photos 
turn up in searches for late 70s and early 80s porn stars.

 

5 comments:

  1. Groundbreaking pioneer of gay "art" cinema, whose films (LA Plays Itself, et al., have been showcased at The Museum of Modern Art in NY, for example. Fascinating life, talented man, tragic end.

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  2. Can’t believe you have not heard of Fred Halsted as you do know of Pat Rocco.:\ They were the trailblazers of gay porn in Los Angeles before gay porn became industrialized. The LA gay scene of the late 1960’s to the mid 1970’s flourished in part because of them. Two of Halsted’s films, LA Plays Its Self and Sex Garage, are in the collection of the Museum of Modern Art. Halsted’s ‘Erotikus-a history of the gay movies’ and Rocco’s ‘We Were There’ are two films that reveal the California scene of that era….:)

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  3. Once seen "L.A. Plays Itself" is very hard to forget. Your reaction might just be "what was that?" But you will react. Halsted was a very talented, complex man.
    There is a biography available of him called "Halsted Plays Himself" by William E Jones. It's excellent, and it goes a long way to help Halsted be remembered. He i is a figure who shouldn't be forgotten.

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  4. More famous as a director than a model!

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