The news that Joe Manganiello was making a documentary about the Dallas male strip club La Bare thrilled me, because I loved Magic Mike and his performance in it. When it finally came to Netflix, I roped Matthew Lawrence into watching and chatting with me. It was no Magic Mike, but the real-life Magic Mike, Randy “Master… Continue reading La Bare (2014)
Tag: documentaries
Week in Links—September 19th
Week in Links recently linked to the new book Male Sex Workers; the Advocate featured an excerpt from it this week. The new documentary Invisible follows former sex worker Richard Holcomb as he does HIV/AIDS outreach with male sex workers in Providence, Rhode Island. Despite the lurid hysteria and funding opportunities offered by the specter of… Continue reading Week in Links—September 19th
The Manor (2013)
In one of this film’s first scenes, a manager tells a stripper “I’m fining you $20 because I’m so pissed at you,” while handing her a $40 payment for a shift. She tells him she was scheduled for one shift, she showed up for it and he couldn’t “fine her” or withhold her pay. “I… Continue reading The Manor (2013)
License to Pimp: A Conversation with Filmmaker Hima B.
What would you do if the strip club you worked at became a brothel? That’s the question Hima B. asks in License to Pimp, the feature documentary she is currently raising funds to complete. The controversial premise is that, by charging house fees, strip club are essentially pimping out the dancers, leaving them little choice… Continue reading License to Pimp: A Conversation with Filmmaker Hima B.
The Week in Links: May 25
The Stop the Arrests movement is calling for a moratorium on prostitution arrests in London throughout the 2012 Olympics. Meanwhile there’s manufactured prostitution hysteria in the Ukraine preceding the Euro soccer championship. Laura Agustín links to studies that have disproven the myth that trafficking spikes around major sporting events. NYPD cop by day, stripper by night Steve… Continue reading The Week in Links: May 25