from Miss Rosen’s article for huck:

In 1971, James Bidgood’s kaleidoscopic film Pink Narcissus set the underground ablaze with its hypnotic scenes of queer desire unleashed. Crafted over seven years inside his Manhattan tenement flat, Bidgood cast Bobby Kendall as a young male prostitute living by the code ‘all day I dream about sex’. Lost in reverie, the hustler imagines luminous encounters as a matador, Roman slave, and master of a harem, abandoning himself amid a hypnotic swirl of pink, blue, and yellow gels, sequins, chiffon, satin, and supple flesh.

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