I was surprised by the sincere and serious effort of the filmmakers to give us a truthful and convincing panorama of the sex life of male, urban and white American homosexuals in the 1970s. I lived those years and confirm that it was exactly like that. But like in many other occasions --as the machista "Skin - A Study in Nudity in the Movies" (2020), which is only about female nudity, and leaves out many pioneer women; or the very bad "Rock Hudson's Home Movies" (1992), that reveals nothing new or interesting to the viewer-- the title is too broad and ambitious, it leaves aside social, racial, economic and political aspects of the times, it omits the female point of view, and it ends relying too much on nostalgia and leaving us with an excessively optimistic view of those licentiousness years, which lead to the very dramatic years of AIDS.
However, I believe that what mainly gives positive energy to the documentary are the testimonies of some men (and a woman) who lived in those years, a bunch of happy libertines who almost tell it all... and they tell a lot. Also, it has good editing, fine selection of songs, extensive research, impressive photographs, and footage of the sexual activity of the community among white, urban, American gays.
However, I believe that what mainly gives positive energy to the documentary are the testimonies of some men (and a woman) who lived in those years, a bunch of happy libertines who almost tell it all... and they tell a lot. Also, it has good editing, fine selection of songs, extensive research, impressive photographs, and footage of the sexual activity of the community among white, urban, American gays.