This was groundbreaking tv for its time. Casey Donovan was the first super star of porn. He was more talented than sex on film. Highly educated and vibrant - what a tragedy that a decade after this was filmed Donovan was dead. 😢

“Nowadays” sure is a poignant song in this context. I’m always out of time, feel like I was born too late - piano bars like that would’ve been right up my alley.

This is amazing ❤ the interviewer is sooooo cute and intelligent. He has a New Yawk accent ❤❤the leader singer of The Village People has an incredible voice! Very talented. He should have been given roles on Broadway❤

Thank you so much for posting Very heartfelt

Such a same So many bathhouses were closed in the 80’s and the boom of the bathhouse industry is gone😕😕😕

The commercials are Gold❤should be preserved in the Library of Congress

I love " Boys in the Band"❤Iconic

Intelligent, Sweet, and soooo Cute. ❤Robert❤He was a Dream . He should have been given chances. He would have been great on Dynasty or Dallas..something like that ❤

Vito was so cute

During the early to mid 1970s, HIV infections was already occurring in the United States (i.e. New York and California). Filmaker Arthur J. Bressan Jr., in this interview, died of AIDS-related complications on July 29, 1987 at the age of 44, meaning that he was most likely infected with HIV around the time of this interview in 1977.

met her at the Stud club in frisco bak in tha day. Legend.

Unfortunately, while this may have been pre-AIDS, it definitely was not pre-HIV, as HIV infections in early 1970s United States was already prevalent.

Gay men didn't have No morals - larry kramer (no shit)

dont stick it in a sore cut bum

wild west . No wonder aids got about So sleazy ...like porn in 2000 Full of horrible grifters jews on the make.... No wonder 200,000 died

Wonderful interview thanks

I like the host. He could stuff me anytime.

Thanks for the post! Best, Steven Bie

This episode is mentioned in John Lennon's collected letters - he told his personal assistant to buy both the record Hurricane Anita by Lin Frizzel & the Looking Good book by Charles Hicks, Lennon was a fan of the programme Emerald City too, thought it was cool that gay people were making quality tv for gay audiences

*53rd + 3rd*

I love these snapshots into gay life before all Hell broke loose. Much love to everyone who lost the battle.

Frank O'Dowd was such a HANDSOME fellow! ❤❤❤

Too bad you can't get a transcript or clean up the audible.

Living desperate 😂

Does anyone know what the original broadcast date was for this? 🙌🏻 Thanks to the channel owner for archiving and sharing this content, it's fascinating. Could so easily have been lost media. I'm even curious how the poster had access to this? Via old tapes or? Anyway, thanks.

Whát A Voice 😻

this is what gay males were proud of, and fought for? omg.

Nice to know! Thanks, Steve Bie

Apparently Harry Hart-Browne is still taking the world by storm.

Lynne Carter is so good! Hilarious!

I wonder if Larry Kramer had any inkling or forethought that the sexual behavior among Gay men at the time might have perhaps led to the explosion of the AIDS epidemic in the 80s.

This brings back so many memories! Thanks for sharing this important piece of Gay history.

I actually met Arthur Bell once in the late 70s or early 80s in NYC. I was in my late teens or early 20s. I didn't know at the time that he was this famous journalist and Gay activist.

That host though 😛

Billy the kid!!!Cmon 😮

That grand central resort looked amazing

They had no idea what was coming

I’m a straight male but I like falling asleep to this kind of stuff

Is that Cassandra Peterson @4:45??

Holy crap - what the hell did I just watch? This is crazy - and I watched it all. Including the commerials. I grew up in middle America and this was NOTHING like I saw growing up. Can't say it wasn't interesting, though.

The interview between Vito and Larry is terrific.

I would love to have gone to the tubs

love these!

So sad, just when young gay and lesbians were beginning to live their lives in the late 1970's the deadly virus AIDS would ravage their lives and kill a whole generation of talented Americans including leaders, artists and in between.

This is a great interview, to say nothing of the absolute banger of a time capsule to a gay-world-gone-by in commercials, but what I'm happiest about is the introduction to the book by stripper/escort Liz Renay! Its on audible, I'm listening to it right now, and it is *juicy*~

Please tell me Mask Gas was a real product!

I have a clip downloaded on my phone of Divine’s words on politics. ‘..LEGALISE FIRST DEGREE MURDER, LEGALISE CANNIBALISM, THOSE ARE MY POLITICS’. Iconic.

I knew Larry was an angry man, but I didn’t know he was daddy back in the day, wowowow.

There's something terrifying and devastating about this segment. HIV is very much present at this point and it's the promotion of said facilities that compounded the spread in part. New York of the 1970s was where the virus found the critical mass to become a pandemic. Even the specific discussion about New Jersey is so alarming as recent genetic studies of the spread of HIV in the USA shows that the New Jersey strain emerged from a New York strain near the time of this broadcast. So sad and horrific this is to watch. They didn't know what they were doing.

"The Retarded Children of New York"