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Fred Halsted (July 17, 1941 - May 9, 1989) was a gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner. His films ''Sex Garage'' and ''L.A. Plays Itself'' are the only gay pornographic movies in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where they were screened before a capacity audience on April 23, 1974.〔("Sound Recordings of Museum-Related Events in The Museum of Modern Art" ), consulted 11/21/1974.〕〔William E. Jones, ''Halsted Plays Himself'', Los Angeles, Semiotext(e) (distributed by The MIT Press), 2011, ISBN 9781584351078, pp. 13 & 55. An interview of Jones in which the book is referred to may be found at Bradford Nordeel, "William E. Jones on ''Finished''", ''Slant'' Magazine, February 22, 2011, http://www.slantmagazine.com/house/article/william-e-jones-on-finished, retrieved July 20, 2015.〕 A screening of ''L.A. Plays Itself'' was sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on February 28, 2013〔(), retrieved 11/21/2014.〕 and another took place on December 16, 2011 at the Los Angeles art gallery Human Resources.〔Megal Sallabedra, ''L.A. Weekly'', December 16, 2011, ("Fred Halsted's Experimental Porn ''L.A. Plays Itself'': Even Dalí Thought It Was Freaky" ), consulted 1/6/2015.〕 His films have also been shown the Netherlands Film Museum and in competition at The Deauville Film Festival.〔Statement on the box cover of ''Pieces of Eight'', reproduced in Jones, p. 102.〕 "Halsted more or less created the world of gay sexual art and experimentation. He then watched it, and himself, be destroyed by AIDS, a sanitizing of gay sexual tastes and the power of addiction."〔Patrick Moore, ''Beyond Shame: Reclaiming the Abandoned History of Radical Gay Sexuality'', Beacon Press, 2004, ISBN 080707957X, p. 58.〕 Halsted was a sex radical. He believed that the erotic is transgressive and sacramental, that it is inherently violent and involves acts of violation. “Sex is not ‘coming,’ that is superficial sex,” he once explained. “Mine is personal cinema. I don’t fuck to get my rocks off. In the best scenes I’ve ever had, I haven’t come. I am not interesting in coming. … I am interested in getting my head off, my emotions off."〔Jeffrey Escoffier, review of William A. Jones, ''Halsted Plays Himself'', ''Lambdaliterary'', December 18, 2011, http://www.lambdaliterary.org/reviews/12/18/halsted-plays-himself-by-william-e-jones/#sthash.6IgzHTxu.dpuf, retrieved 1/20/2015.〕 ==Early life and career== Halsted was born in Long Beach, California in 1941. His father, Milton William Halsted, worked in construction, and his mother, Lillian Halsted (née Samoyloff), was a Doukhobor and did agricultural work.〔Jones, pp. 61-64.〕 Milton abandoned the family when Fred was three.〔Jones, p. 64.〕 His mother was remarried to John Knight,〔Jones, p. 64〕 who raped Fred when he was 8, which he described as "a turning point in his sexual identity."〔Jones, p. 88.〕〔"Fred Halsted Looks to the Boards," ''The Advocate'', no. 263, March 22, 1979, pp. 31-32, 43, reproduced in Jones, pp. 162-165, at p. 165.〕 He attended high school in Bakersfield, California and San Jose, California, and he described himself as a student politician, which led to his failing all his classes.〔Autobiographical statement by Halsted, reproduced in Jones, pp. 52-53.〕 Halsted studied botany at Cal State LA,〔(), consulted 1/6/2015.〕 and subsequently worked as a gardener〔Jones, p. 23.〕 and was in the nursery plant business;〔Rosa von Praunheim, ''Army of Lovers'', London, Gay Men's Press, 1980, ISBN 0907040004, pp. 91-96, reproduced in Jones, pp. 166-169, quote on p. 167.〕 he owned a wholesale nursery in El Monte, California.〔"Fred Halsted Looks to the Boards," ''The Advocate'', no. 263, March 22, 1979, pp. 31-32, 43, reproduced in Jones, pp. 162-165.〕〔Moore, p. 59.〕 He later said he looked back on his years as a gardener as the happiest days of his life.〔Jones, p. 90.〕 He never held a regular job nor had a Social Security number.〔 His long-term lover (though with interruptions) was Joseph Yanoska, who appears in his movies under the name "Joe Yale"; they were called "sadomasochism's heaviest couple".〔Jones, p. 73.〕 Halsted wrote autobiographical pieces about his promiscuous gay sex life.〔"Personal Training", ''Package'', Nos. 4, 5, and 6, reproduced in Jones, pp. 186-191, 194-196, and 198-199.〕 Halsted was a good friend of Kenneth Anger, and he loved ''Scorpio Rising''.〔Jones, p. 86.〕 He said that "I consider myself a pervert first and a homosexual second."〔Quoted in Siebenand, ''The Beginnings of Gay Cinema in Los Angeles, Dissertation, University of Southern California, 1975, p. 213, quoted by Jeffrey Escoffier, "Beefcake to Hardcore: Gay Pornography and the Sexual Revolution", in ''Sex Scene: Media and the Sexual Revolution'', ed. Eric Schaefer, Duke University Press, 2014, ISBN 978-0-8223-5654-7.〕 Also, he considered "sadism... more basic to my personality than homosexuality".〔Siebenand, p. 218, quoted in Jeffrey Escoffier, ''Bigger than Life: The History of Gay Porn Cinema from Beefcake to Hardcore'', Philadelphia, Running Press, 2009, ISBN 9780786720101, p. 77.〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Fred Halsted」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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