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that hour. That's not very relaxing.
STEVEN
Hustling is one of the most phenomenal
things around. It helps people. Some
people don't have somebody to talk to.
Some people are in a relationship with a
wife and children. They began the
relationship because society told them it
was wrong to be gay. I, or any other
hustler is there to give them sex and
you're allowed to pay for it. It's okay.
LIGHT CUE: SUDDEN BLACK-OUT
MUSIC CUE: WHITE LINES-CUTS OUT
ALLEN
Oh shit.
Allen lights a lighter.
ALLEN (CONT'D)
My electricity just got turned off
because I haven't paid the bill. I don't
need to have fifty TVs or five cars. I
just want a life that I could be
comfortable with. I want electricity and
I don't want to hustle.
Steven lights a lighter.
STEVEN
Morning calls are people on drugs.
Afternoon calls are people on lunch
breaks. And evening calls, they get a lot
pickier. It's just something about the
night time.
Interviewer lights a lighter.
INTERVIEWER
How much money do you have on you right
now?
ALLEN
Like ten dollars and like a dollar fifty
in quarters.
INTERVIEWER
How much money do you have to your name?
ALLEN
Like ten dollars and like a dollar fifty
in quarters.
INTERVIEWER
And how will you eat for the week?
ALLEN
I don't know. Maybe I'll borrow five
bucks from somebody here and from
somebody there. But for this whole week
I won't do any drugs. Maybe I'll smoke
somebody else's pot.
Joe lights a lighter...pretend to smoke a joint...blows out
lighter and in succession the other lighters go out.
LIGHT CUE: GENERAL WASH RESTORE-BUMP UP
JOE
There was this place on the pier where I
met this guy in broad daylight and he
started giving me head then these guys
came over...
BRIAN
"Let us watch."
MICHAEL
"We never see anything like this at
home."
JOE
I was like, "You know in most parts of
the city it would cost you money to see
this." I said, "As long as I hear money
falling through the chain-link fence you
can watch." So they started throwing
change and then they stopped and I
stopped and they were like, "Why?" And I
said, "I don't hear money dropping." So
they started dropping more money.
ALLEN
You gotta get the money first. If you
don't they're gonna fuck you over. And
cops, that's another reason. If I get
the money first, what did I get the money
for? Nothing.
STEVEN
You say, "Take off your clothes." If
they take off their clothes, they're not
a cop. They are allowed to lie to you.
A lot of escorts think that's entrapment.
It's not. A police officer will ask
you...
BRIAN
"Okay will you get fucked for a hundred
and fifty dollars?"
STEVEN
"You know what, we'll discuss that
later." And if they don't agree to those
terms, they're more than likely a cop.
And then you just walk out.
We are now in a courtroom...Brian plays the rapist...he
stares blankly at Allen.
ALLEN
We went to eat and afterwards went to his
house and he was drinking and doing coke
and stuff like that.
INTERVIEWER
How old was he?
ALLEN
I don't know, I guess about forty or
something like that. He had a beautiful
apartment? Anyway, I guess he had it in
his head in spite of what we discussed
that he was gonna fuck me. And he had
his hand on my throat and he was forcing
my legs up in the air. And we fought. I
think I hit him with something like an
ashtray or a statuette. Then he just
passed out and I took some money out of
his wallet and I ran.
INTERVIEWER
So was there blood?
ALLEN
No, but he was bruised really, really
bad.
INTERVIEWER
But he passed out?
ALLEN
Yeah. I mean he was high as it was, so
it wasn't difficult.
INTERVIEWER
How do you know he didn't die?
ALLEN
Oh God, don't say that. He was breathing
when I left.
INTERVIEWER
How do you know he didn't pass out later?
ALLEN
I don't.
INTERVIEWER
You never heard from him or saw him
again?
ALLEN
No.
INTERVIEWER
You may have killed him.
ALLEN
I hope not. I really hope not.
STEVEN
I pay for sex as much as I get paid for
sex. I think it's the best thing. You
call up the agency and you say today I
want a long guy who has piercings, likes
to fuck and doesn't speak a word of
English. Or the opposite, I want a
transsexual with tits and a dick. It's so
simple and easy. It's so dumb to go to
bars if you're just going to get sex. To
sit there and go through the whole
bullshit of...
JOE
"Where are you from?"
STEVEN
...when you know that's not really what
you're wanting to know.
INTERVIEWER
You hit him with an ashtray in his head.
Do you ever think about the fact that you
may have killed this guy?
ALLEN
He may have been trying to kill me.
INTERVIEWER
Do you think that he thought he was
trying to rape you or do you think that
he thought it was just a sex game you
were playing?
ALLEN
It was discussed that I wasn't gonna do
that.
INTERVIEWER
You said I will not be having anal sex?
ALLEN
Right. But then when we were in his
apartment, supposedly that was what I
really did want and he was gonna give it
to me.
INTERVIEWER
Did he say, "You know you really want
this"?
ALLEN
Yeah and that's what made me decide that
this is not what I need to be doing with
my life.
INTERVIEWER
So at the end of the night you did not
feel like you had been involved in sex
that got a little rough? You felt like
you had been the victim of attempted
rape?
ALLEN
Yeah because he was hurting me and trying
to make me do something I didn't want to
do.
INTERVIEWER
How hard was his hand on your throat?
ALLEN
It was hard. I think that he thought
since he was gonna give me money he was
gonna do whatever he wanted to do.
INTERVIEWER
When you were having dinner did he seem
sane? Did he seem honest?
ALLEN
More or less.
INTERVIEWER
You didn't have any reason to believe
that he would try to rape you?
ALLEN
No.
INTERVIEWER
Did you file a police report?
ALLEN
No, because prostitution is illegal, so
what was I gonna say? Plus, my father's
a police officer and I just figured
somehow or another he might find out.
PATRICK
Male rape is more common than we think. I
work as a volunteer in a rape crisis
program. Men would show up in the
emergency room and say they were mugged
or assaulted. When hospitals started
asking if they were sexually assaulted,
the percentage of men who said yes went
up.
STEVEN
A police officer who arrested my lover,
called us afterwards because he in fact
is gay and wanted to get to know my lover
better.
INTERVIEWER
Tell me about the relationship between
drugs and sex.
STEVEN
I think the best was on crack cocaine.
INTERVIEWER
Was it the crack or was it the guy you
were with?
ALL
(except Michael & Patrick)
I think it was the crack.
INTERVIEWER
Why do you think that?
STEVEN
It just gives you a rush. I mean some
people can't do it like that but for me
it worked fine.
INTERVIEWER
Was it only one time of sex on crack?
STEVEN
It was a lot of times.
INTERVIEWER
What's sex on crack like?
STEVEN
It's just like using poppers.
ALLEN
It's a rush.
STEVEN
It makes you horny?
INTERVIEWER
Would you smoke crack while you were
having sex?
STEVEN
I'd take a hit while somebody would be
sucking my dick...
STEVEN (CONT'D)
...or I'd be screwing someone and they'd
take a hit.
ALLEN
There's a difference between getting
stoned and smoking pot.
STEVEN
I only get stoned rarely.
ALLEN
I smoke pot daily.
STEVEN
I only do cocaine now.
ALLEN
It just relaxes me, that's all.
STEVEN
I've smoked pot before and I've tried
other things like crystal.
ALLEN
I know how to regulate it
STEVEN
When I do drugs I have fun.
ALLEN
I could go for a very long time without
it.
STEVEN
Drugs are one of my types of fun right
now.
ALLEN
When I'm over it, I'll be over it.
INTERVIEWER
Would you rather have sex or drugs?
STEVEN
That's hard.
(pause)
I can't answer that.
ALLEN
I think I would have to give up sex.
PATRICK
If you don't have a goal or a clear
direction, then what direction do you
have?
ALLEN
Heroin has been a big player in my life.
STEVEN
Heroin is typical of what they say.
ALLEN
It boosts your self-esteem.
PATRICK
I see a lot of people who have just
stopped growing and really have more
potential than they take advantage of.
There really is much more that they can
be doing.
INTERVIEWER
Do you ever give unconditional love and
support?
PATRICK
It depends.
STEVEN
That doesn't sound very unconditional to
me.
PATRICK
Having a doctorate at times is a little
tough because people get defensive about
their own lack of education, but their
education has only stopped because they
have chosen to let it stop.
ALLEN
You can only imagine when I stopped
heroin, how the brick wall hit me. I felt
so miniscule, I felt so small.
PATRICK
I have my doctorate and I continue to
hide in academia. I'm currently doing
research on a book about gender issues in
the eighteenth century. I spend a lot of
time on my work.
STEVEN
I don't understand why a color has to be
worn, why your hair has to be a certain
way, why your furniture has to be set a
certain way, why water should be drunk a
certain way, why you should write a
certain way.
INTERVIEWER
So you got your doctorate when you were
like twelve?
PATRICK
I completed my doctorate earlier than
most.
LIGHT CUE: VIDEO BOOTH-SINGLE DIM LIGHT-BUMP UP
BRIAN
I had a bad experience in New Orleans.
MUSIC CUE: ALIEN TRILOGY-TRACK 8
Allen plays the crack guy.
BRIAN (CONT'D)
It was in one of those places with
booths. This guy lit up a crack pipe in
this booth. It was just like really
disturbing to me. He had a condom on him
and I was sucking his dick and he lit up
and I heard it and I smelled it. And I
got up and I was just like, instant fear,
drugs, AIDS. I mean I always assume
everyone's positive anyway but it just
smacked me in the face. The crack pipe
just smacked me in the face. It just
scared the living shit out of me, and I
just left.
MUSIC CUE: ALIEN TRILOGY-FADE OUT AT 1:15
LIGHT CUE: GENERAL WASH RESTORE-3 COUNT
PATRICK
So, I said, "Why don't we try going out?"
And it all evolved from there. It was
easy to be the aggressor with him because
he was shyer than I am. When I would see
him in a social setting I always knew I
could walk up to him and make some
comment that would make him blush.
Ironically, when I would go to bars I was
always the one to let men come up to me.
And I know that sounds conceited when I
say that. What's more ironic is that for
years I always found tops when I wanted
to find a bottom and everyone's else is
complaining that they only find bottoms.
INTERVIEWER
Why did you fall in love with him?
PATRICK
Because he's very intelligent and very
caring and warm and funny and handsome,
um... and I just feel so incredible when
I am with him. I always felt insecure
with him because he really is so
brilliant, and I used to think, "Oh my
God, I can't keep up in a conversation
with him. Why does he want to hang
around with me? He's seventeen years
older than I am." And...
INTERVIEWER
That would make him fifty...
PATRICK
He was actually fifty-one earlier this
month.
INTERVIEWER
Happy Birthday.
SLOW DANCE SECTION
MUSIC CUE: HELLO IN THERE-BETTE MIDDLER-FULL
The following transitions/crossfades should all be slow.
LIGHT CUE: SINGLE OVERHEAD SPOT ON PATRICK AND FRANK-DANCING
LIGHT CUE: SINGLE OVERHEAD SPOT ON MICHAEL AND ALLEN-DANCING
LIGHT CUE: SINGLE OVERHEAD SPOT ON GABRIEL AND STEVEN-DANCING
LIGHT CUE: ALL THREE SPOTS ON
LIGHT CUE: SINGLE OVERHEAD SPOT ON PATRICK AND FRANK-DANCING
LIGHT CUE: GENERAL WASH RESTORE-SLOWLY
MUSIC CUE: HELLO IN THERE-SLOW FADE OUT
Dancers freeze during next scene.
JOE
I always joke with my roommate that I
don't want to be older than sixty-five
because I look at older men and the more
I see, the less I think it's likely to be
with someone and to have someone. Who
wants to be the old man walking around
the bar? Who wants to be old and alone?
INTERVIEWER
You'd rather be dead than be that person?
JOE
I would unless I find something that
fills that void.
INTERVIEWER
So you wouldn't sleep with older men?
JOE
I haven't.
INTERVIEWER
Does age turn you off?
JOE
It turns me off sexually.
INTERVIEWER
Do you worry about not being desirable in
a few years?
JOE
Yeah because it just happens.
INTERVIEWER
Do you ever think you may become more
desirable as you age?
JOE
That's a possibility, but I do not take
comfort in that.
Frank and Patrick come to life, both laughing.
FRANK
When I was in junior high The Exorcist...
PATRICK
Oh he always tells this story...
FRANK
Shut-up, shut-up...so..
The rest come to life and line up to hear the story.
FRANK (CONT'D)
...when I was in junior high The Exorcist
had come out and I had read the book. My
mother had gotten it through her book of
the month club and I snuck it out and I
was reading it, just as I had with
Jacqueline Suzann's Valley of the Dolls
and all the other "adult books." I was
fascinated by The Exorcist, and when the
movie came out I was dying to see it, but
it was rated R and I was too young to get
in. Anyway, there was this whole big
media hype of hiding what Linda Blair
looked like in full make up as the demon,
but somebody in school got this
magazine...
MUSIC CUE: THE EXORCIST THEME-UNDERSCORE
FRANK (CONT'D)
...and there were a couple of pictures of
Linda Blair in the demon make-up. The
magazine was Playgirl which at the time
had just come out. Don't ask me who
among these kids got this thing, but
everybody was looking at it. And I'm
looking and I had NO idea what anything
was. You open up to the middle of it and
there's this man with no clothes on, and
I was like, "Wow." And
I'm so naive, I'm
still trying to find the Linda Blair
pictures. In fact, everybody else was
borrowing this magazine and taking it
home to study Linda, and I'm believing
this. That's not what they took it home
to study, we know that now. When it came
my turn and I got to bring it home. I
was outside playing and I came in the
house...
LIGHT CUE: FOCUS ON BED-SMOOTH FADE
FRANK (CONT'D)
...and my mother was as white as a ghost.
She had been up in my room and saw the
magazine on my bed.
Now I still didn't know anything, but my
mother said, "Where did you get this?
Thank God your father didn't see this."
In my naivet?, I told her that Linda
Blair's pictures were in there and
everybody's been passing it around cause
everybody was dying to see them. And she
says, "Yeah but look, what kind of a
thing is this and what are you doing and
how did they get this? And who got
this?" She said, "Get that out of this
house."
LIGHT CUE: SPOT ON BED
FRANK (CONT'D)
So that night in my bedroom, laying on
the floor on my stomach with my legs kind
of up in the air thumbing through this
thing, I start to see all that was
there. Mr. Naive starts to wake up to why
mom got so upset. I'm looking at these
pictures and I'm like, "wow" and I'm
getting really "wow," and the next thing
I know...
(he cums)
I came...
MUSIC CUE: EXORCIST THEME-BUMP OUT
FRANK (CONT'D)
...right in my pants. Just from laying
on the ground on the hard floor. I'm
thinking, "I didn't have to go to the
bathroom, how'd I wet my pants?" I
didn't know what it was! That was the
first time.
LIGHT CUE: GENERAL WASH RESTORE-3 COUNT
FRANK (CONT'D)
My parents had never discussed sex with
me and we didn't have any thing in
school. In fact to this day, I'm still
prone to fucking the mattress or the
pillow as opposed to jacking-off by hand
because it happened that way the first
time.
PATRICK
I actually started masturbating before I
could ejaculate. Not realizing what I
was doing, but it sure felt good.
It was wild that I would have an orgasm,
but since nothing would come out, I could
keep going.
STEVEN
I define sex as someone cumming.
"Fooling around" is not sex. When you
start sucking and the guy cums, or you
start intercourse and the guy cums, or
you jerk off and you cum, that's sex. I
think ejaculation is sex.
BRIAN
I remember one time, I was having sex
with this girl and I faked an orgasm with
her because I just knew it wasn't gonna
work. I mean I've never had a problem
having an erection, but to have an orgasm
was different.
MICHAEL
It was a very sad thing you know when I
first told her. The only reason I told
her by the way was because she was not
yet pregnant. I didn't have relations
with her. I tried, but I couldn't. I
couldn't ejaculate in her. So I got
nowhere fast. She started to wonder if
it was her. She wanted to go to a doctor
to check herself out. Cause she thought
maybe she was not able to have children.
INTERVIEWER
So you would never have an orgasm?
MICHAEL
That's what I'm saying. I knew that she
couldn't possibly be pregnant.
INTERVIEWER
So you're faking orgasms with this woman,
and so she doesn't know why she's not
getting pregnant?
MICHAEL
Right. Then I told her, I couldn't just
let her go on.
INTERVIEWER
So you loved her?
MICHAEL
Not sexually.
INTERVIEWER
But you cared about her?
MICHAEL
Yes.
INTERVIEWER
You cared about the marriage?
MICHAEL
Yeah.
INTERVIEWER
But did you want to change for her, or
did you want to change because you really
wanted to become a heterosexual?
MICHAEL
No, I went there sincerely to really try
to affect a change. The therapist told
me because I couldn't consummate my
marriage by thinking about my wife, I
should think about men. And she became
pregnant. That was the only way I could
do it.
PATRICK
Well what's interesting is since all my
siblings have children my parents relate
to the grandchildren, but when they come
to visit me we have to deal with each
other, no hiding behind children.
INTERVIEWER
So you have a child?
MICHAEL
Four. That's number one, but over a
period of time.
INTERVIEWER
You have four children?
MICHAEL
Yeah.
INTERVIEWER
All conceived with you thinking about
men?
MICHAEL
Yeah.
BRIAN
That's one thing I really want...kids.
STEVEN
My mother is forty-nine.
MUSIC CUE-KARAMER VS KRAMER-TRACK 19-UNDERSCORING
STEVEN (CONT'D)
She goes to work at six a.m. and gets off
at three in the evening. She comes home,
takes her smock off, sits down and smokes
a cigarette and has a cup of coffee. She
fixes my dad a sandwich and they sit side
by side and watch television until
evening. She'll wake up in the morning
and do it all over again. Every day of
her life. When my mother dies, I'll
probably end up killing myself. That's
how close I am to her. I can speak to
her about hemorrhoids, about crabs, about
cocaine getting clogged in my nose, about
how Philip and I argued over how done my
steak was. I can speak to her about any
aspect of my life and she will respond
and say she loves me.
MUSIC CUE: UNDERSCORING OUT
MICHAEL
I did what I thought was right, I tried
to get married and I thought I would
change. I really believed that. So if
it comes out as deception, I didn't mean
it that way.
PATRICK
My mother and father have been together
forty-three years. They sleep in
separate rooms, but they're still
together.
JOE
I have a fear of commitment. I have this
fear of someone liking me too much and me
not liking them enough and me hurting
them. Then I have the other side of the
coin where I fear too much needing on my
part. Anonymous sex is safe in an
emotional sense.
LIGHT CUE: DIM RED WASH-BUMP
MUSIC CUE: TAINTED LOVE-EXTENDED VERSION-UNDERSCORE
We are now in a Sex Club. Cast lines up against the back
wall.
FRANK
The majority of my sexual encounters have
been anonymous, faceless...You couldn't
talk to people, you could just barely see
their faces.
He starts to walk along the back wall cruising the men.
FRANK (CONT'D)
You'd walk through the dark corridors,
and they were lined with guys doing
things I didn't think I could do in front
of so many people. I maybe went there
once or twice but did nothing. Then
finally I got comfortable enough to
actually venture into the crowds.
They all go cruise the audience.
FRANK (CONT'D)
I gave him head. I had been practicing
on dildos for a long time. Through the
years I've jammed myself in ways that I
think would make most guys cringe. I
cringe when I think about what I've done
to myself over the years.
INTERVIEWER
To your anus?
FRANK
And orally.
INTERVIEWER
You would suck the dildos?
FRANK
Yes, to practice...
INTERVIEWER
Were they big dildos?
FRANK
I tried with smaller ones first and then
I worked up to the Jeff Stryker model.
You start with the five inch dildo and
you end up with the nine inch. It's not
just something you plow into.
PATRICK
I went to jack off clubs. I had gone to
the rambles in the park when I first came
to the city and was first coming out.
But I never liked the whole tea room sex
thing because I think I really saw that
as being very sad and pathetic.
LIGHT CUE: GENERAL WASH RESTORE-BUMP
MUSIC CUE: TAINTED LOVE-BUMP OUT
FRANK
Why did you see it as pathetic?
PATRICK
I really viewed it as a group of people
that grew up at a time when they needed
to hide who they were. So they'd go and
have the anonymous sex because they
couldn't risk really meeting someone for
fear of their family or their job or...
JOE
Some people would be enraged that you
think their lives are sad and pathetic
because they enjoy bathroom sex.
PATRICK
But it is sad. These aren't people who
are open or willing to have a
relationship with someone.
JOE
You don't think someone can be in a
relationship and go and have anonymous
sex and enjoy it and have a very happy,
full, content life with a lover?
STEVEN
Love, I totally believe, has nothing to
do with sex. I learned to divide them.
I escort, and I don't love these people
that I fool around with for sex. I love
my husband very much and I love having
sex with him, that's just a plus. You
can have sex with somebody and not love
them and you can love someone and not
have sex with them.
FRANK
I have never liked having my dick sucked.
Never. To this day I do not like having
my dick sucked. Even by men. I don't
like it. I'm squeamish, I'm like, "Watch
the teeth." I'm just more of a bottom
boy. I just love sucking dick? God, I
live for it. And I love to get fucked. I
think the reason I don't like to top is
just the physical awkwardness of it. For
me to climb on a big Rex Chandler type
would just look ridiculous.
INTERVIEWER
Do you get into scat as well?
MICHAEL
I have a very, very minimal interest in
it. Occasionally, what I would do when I
was younger and even now on rare
occasions, is shit in my pants, generally
indoors but even outdoors.
INTERVIEWER
What was the turn on to that?
MICHAEL
It was exciting, it was a release,
especially if you really have to go.
INTERVIEWER
How often have you done it?
MICHAEL
A couple of days ago...at home. I was
laying in bed doing some paper work. I
had underpants and pants on that I didn't
mind getting wet or soiled. And I had to
go so I just let it go.
INTERVIEWER
Was it a turn on to you? Did you get a
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