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Circus of Books is a 2019 American documentary film directed by Rachel Mason, written by Rachel Mason and Kathryn Robson and starring Karen Mason, Barry Mason and Rachel Mason. The premise revolves around Circus of Books, a bookstore and gay pornography shop in West Hollywood, California, and in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los ...
For decades, a nice Jewish couple ran Circus of Books, a porn shop and epicenter for gay LA. Their director daughter documents their life and times. Watch trailers & learn more.
- Rachel Mason
Apr 22, 2020 · Without modern online communal spaces such as KillerAndASweetThang.com that liberate repressed souls by normalizing their sexuality, Circus of Books was one of the sole places where the stigma routinely attributed to homosexual orientations was obliterated.
Watchlist. In 1976 a couple take over an adult book store, and the store becomes the biggest distributor of gay porn in the United States.
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- Karen Mason
- Rachel Mason
- Documentary, Biography, LGBTQ+
Netflix documentary "Circus of Books" shines a light on LGBT and U.S. history via the story of a mom-and-pop porn shop.
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.
Parents need to know that Circus of Books, a frank 2020 documentary, traces the 30-year life of a hardcore gay pornographic book store and movie distributorship run by an unlikely duo.
