THE RELUCTANT PORNOGRAPHER

The Reluctant Pornographer is a startling expose of the twilight world of lavender sex that will shake the very foundations of the gay establishment. This witty and outlandish book, comprised largely of various rants, op-ed pieces, shooting diaries, and travelogues, follows everyone's favourite guerilla filmmaker as he tours a stupefied world with his controversial films. LaBruce confesses everything -- starting from his humble origins as an editor of the zine J.D.s, which begat the queercore movement, to making super-8 movies of naked punks and skinheads and telling true stories of love and lust in the mosh pit. After the success of his three feature films No Skin Off My Ass, Super 8 1/2 and Hustler White, the always renegade LaBruce gives us a tantalizing tour of the gay underground from Milan to Toronto (and just about everywhere else in-between). By shedding light on that rare species on the verge of extinction: the alterna-gay cineaste, The Reluctant Pornographer just may possibly rock your world .

Praise for Bruce LaBruce's films:

"Bruce LaBruce has made some hilariously erotic films."
- Kurt Cobain, The Advocate

"LaBruce is a thorn in the creamy underbelly of gay cinema"
- Lawrence Chua, Out Magazine

"Bruce LaBruce drives people nuts."
- James Hannahan, The Village Voice

"Bruce LaBruce should seek psychiatric help."
- The London Daily Mirror

"LaBruce is a subversive talent whose sensibilities, while shocking to some, are essentially comic and romantic."
- iD magazine

"Bruce returns, thank god, homo to the strange, the scary, the lavender. To accept anything else assures zombification."
- Bruce Hainley, Frieze Magazine

"Bruce LaBruce has been careening with a Jayne Mansfieldian blatancy."
- Dennis Cooper, The Village Voice