Circus of Books
Rachel Mason
Karen Mason, Barry Mason, Rachel Mason, Josh Mason, Micah Mason, Alexei Romanoff, Billy Miller, Don Norman, Freddie Bercovitz, Paulo Morillo, Ellen Winer, Larry Flynt, David Gregory, Fernando Aguilar, Alaska Thunderf***
2019
United States
Completed
English
92 minutes
Detailed introduction
This film (drama)Also known asCircus of Books，is aUnited StatesProducerwomen sex，At2019Released in year
。The dialogue language isEnglish，Current Douban rating7.7(For reference only)。
In 1976, Karen and Barry Mason had fallen on hard times and were looking for a way to support their young family when they answered an ad in the Los Angeles Times. Larry Flynt was seeking distributors for Hustler Magazine. What was expected to be a brief sideline led to their becoming fully immersed in the LGBT community as they took over a local store, Circus of Books. A decade later, they had become the biggest distributors of gay porn in the US. The film focuses on the double life they led, trying to maintain the balance of being parents at a time when LGBT culture was not yet accepted. Their many challenges included facing jail time for a federal obscenity prosecution and enabling their store to be a place of refuge at the height of the AIDS crisis. Circus of Books offers a rare glimpse into an untold chapter of queer history, and it is told through the lens of the owners' own daughter, Rachel Mason, an artist, filmmaker, and musician.