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5 unusual facts about Nights in Black Leather


Nights in Black Leather

It is the first of just two gay porn films Peter Berlin starred in as himself, although the film credits name him Peter Burian.

With scenes shot in North Beach, Land's End, and all over San Francisco, Nights in Black Leather is both an erotic romp and a time capsule of gay life in San Francisco in the early 1970s.

Peter Berlin

His two films, Nights in Black Leather (1973) and That Boy (1974) (credited in the latter as Peter Burian), played to packed houses for years and, along with other pioneering erotic filmmakers such as Wakefield Poole and Jack Deveau, helped bring gay male erotic films artistic legitimacy.

He collaborated with friend Richard Abel on a 16 mm hard-core porn film entitled Nights in Black Leather (1973) in which he played the lead role.

That Boy

It is also his second and last long feature in which he appeared as an actor following the huge success of Nights in Black Leather.



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