Wakefield Poole may not be a household name, but he changed the world of porn forever. In 1971, back when porn was something you watched in a movie theater, Poole decided what he was seeing on screen didn’t line up with his own experiences as a gay man in New York City.
So he took matters into his own hands, taking a camera to Fire Island Pines and creating a sexy gay fantasia.The film he created, “Boys In The Sand,” broke into the mainstream.
Its fanciful vignettes, which included porn star Casey Donovan rising from the ocean to seduce a boy on the beach and tossing a magic pill into a swimming pool to conjure a man, captured audience attention and made the film a crossover hit.