L.A. Plays Itself/Boys in the Sand

A Queer Film Classic on two groundbreaking gay arthouse porn films from 1972, both examples of the growing liberalization of social attitudes toward sex and homosexuality in post-Stonewall America. Where Fred Halsted''s Boys in the Sand is a frothy romp at a gay beach resort community, Wakefield Poole''s L.A. Plays Itself is a dark treatise on violence and urban squalor. Both films represent parti...