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Apr 22, 2020 · Now the subjects of the Netflix documentary Circus of Books, the former owners of the eponymous store open up about their unlikely double lives as straight-laced, all-American small business...
Apr 22, 2020 · ‘Circus of Books’: How Filmmaker Rachel Mason Made the Queer ‘Stories We Tell’ Poignant and hilarious, the fabulous film about a Jewish couple running a gay porn bookstore is the best ...
98% Tomatometer 59 Reviews 80% Audience Score 100+ Ratings In 1976 a couple take over an adult book store, and the store becomes the biggest distributor of gay porn in the United States.
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Apr 23, 2020 · The documentary is centered on a straight-owned Los Angeles bookstore that was at one point the largest distributor of gay pornography in the country. The recently shuttered Circus of Books, on ...
Apr 22, 2020 · Internet killed the video store in the documentary “Circus of Books,” which examines the history of a long-running porn shop and adult goods store in West Hollywood that closed in 2019.
Apr 22, 2020 · How Netflix Doc ‘Circus of Books’ Shines a Light on LGBT and American History. Karen and Barry Mason were an average couple living the 1980s Southern California dream — a humble home in West ...
Mar 3, 2023 · Executive produced by Ryan Murphy, CIRCUS OF BOOKS is the debut documentary from artist Rachel Mason, who finally asks the least radical people she knows — her parents — how they became America’s biggest distributors of gay porn, and why Karen reacted so negatively when her own son came out of the closet.
