Sex Positive

What if you knew a deadly epidemic was coming and no one would believe you?

APPROPIATE

2009 / 75min.

Rating5.3

Genres

Documentary

Synopsis

Sex Positive explores the life of Richard Berkowitz, a revolutionary gay S&M hustler turned AIDS activist in the 1980s, whose incomparable contribution to the invention of safe sex has never been aptly credited. Mr. Berkowitz emerged from the epicenter of the epidemic demanding a solution to the problem before the outside world would take heed. Now destitute and alone, Mr. Berkowitz tells his story to a world who never wanted to listen.

Directors

Daryl Wein

Actors

Michael Lucas

Susan Brown

Richard Berkowitz

Norma Connolly

Larry Kramer

Edmund White

Michael Callen

Gabriel Rotello

Sean O. Strub

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