书之马戏团

影片名称：书之马戏团

影片别名：shuzhimaxituan

上映时间：2019年

国家/地区：美国

影片语言：英语

IMDB链接：tt12144499

豆瓣评分：3.0

影片类型：纪录

影片导演：Rachel,Mason

影片主演：未知

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资源更新： 更新至1集

总播放次数：656次

入库更新时间：2023-10-08

In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lense of the owners own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker and musician.