Trade Center director @ABaran999 is currently fundraising for his next documentary about defunct queer sex spaces in NYC: this time about the Chelsea-based private leather club, The Nine Plus Club. Learn more about the club and make a donation here: https://t.co/U29TXcqLxW
"Trade Center strings together five men’s memories of their thrilling sexual experiences in the building, spanning the 70s until the days the towers fell. Their accounts suggest they successfully co-opted the building:” https://t.co/tCkGtQFZXs
"I like the idea of going to a place and digging through men, like a thrift store."
Below, #AdamBaran and #BrontezPurnell discuss @TradeCenterFilm and New York’s lost cruising spots. https://t.co/qX6EILHaJD
In honor of @TradeCenterFilm, the Brooklyn-based filmmaker @ABaran999 talked to his friend #BrontezPurnell about the City’s forgotten cruising history, the role of the internet in transforming spontaneous sex, and legacy of the World Trade Center. https://t.co/qX6EILHaJD
The voices of five gay men who cruised for sex at the World Trade Center in the 1980s and 1990s haunt the sanitized, commerce-driven landscape that is the newly rebuilt Freedom Tower campus. Watch now @abaran999's #shortfilm 'Trade Center'. https://t.co/I0L1hoMHo5
"...five gay men...cruised for sex in the World Trade Center stalls..." The short @sxsw documentary makes Michael McNeely nostalgic for something he never experienced.
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