The man behind the legendary trilogy Kansas City Trucking Co., El Paso Wrecking Corp. and LA Tool & Die, Joe Gage is the greatest gay porn director of his generation. He’s also the first artist who dared to suggest that sex between men was more about camaraderie than romance, more about hot action than a lifestyle. While his characters were always working-class Joes, his ’70s epics became blueprints of sexual tension-building and were also stylistically innovative. By 1982, he was already an icon. Then he got married to a woman and left the business for twenty years. He had two sons, directed a play, made some non-pornographic B-movies and wrote a couple of mildly successful novels. Now at 62, he has been making gay porn again, most recently for Titan Films. To meet up with him, I drove an hour out of LA to the historic Wigwam Motel in Rialto, California, on old Route 66. He and his ‘brother’ Sam Gage, his pal and the producer of his classic movies, were kicking back in their giant teepee room having some beers.Click here for the full BUTT interview.
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