Erotically & politically charged, these 1970s exploitation flicks were Spain’s first openly gay films
Hidden Pleasures (’77) and Confessions Of A Congressman a.k.a “El Diputado” (’78) are erotically and politically charged films that center on older, closeted figures in society who lust after young men.
Given their subject matter, they still proved controversial even in more liberal-minded times, and were only given limited releases in America.It takes talent and vision to create television that can function simultaneously as entertainment and porn.
These are 5 Queerty-approved Spanish series to stream for your horny gay summer. Now, nearly 40 years after they were last publicly screened in the States, both of Eloy de la Iglesia’s history-making gay films have been restored and made available on digital and home video courtesy of LGBTQ+ specialty distributor Altered Innocence.Billed as Uranian Dreams: Two Homosexual Films by Eloy de la Iglesia—named for “uranians,” an old world term for gay men—the first of its kind re-release package hopes to introduce new audiences to the sexy, thought-provoking, pioneering work of one of world cinema’s under-sung queer filmmakers.The first of the pair, Hidden Pleasures, follows the story of Eduardo (Die Another Day‘s Simón Andreu), a well-off banker whose secret hobby is meeting and bedding young male hustlers on the streets.Though he lives with his mother, Eduardo has a secret bachelor pad where he brings his conquests, keeping his affairs out of the public eye.
