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8 unusual facts about Peter Berlin


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.

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.

1974: That Boy (director, producer, writer, actor) (credited as Peter Burian)

In 2005, filmmaker and writer Jim Tushinski directed and co-produced (with Lawrence Helman), the feature-length documentary That Man: Peter Berlin, which began a resurgence of interest in Berlin's works.

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.

Spandex fetishism

Gay porn star Peter Berlin popularized spandex fetishism beginning in the 1970s in the many erotic photographs he posed for that were published in many gay pornographic magazines, regular gay magazines, and in the theatre magazine After Dark.

That Boy

That Boy is a 1974 gay porn film written, produced and directed by Peter Berlin, his first and only long pornographic feature film.

That Man: Peter Berlin

That Man: Peter Berlin, secondary title Artist, Model, Porn Star, Legend; He Was His Own Work of Art is a 2005 documentary directed by Jim Tushinski about the popular gay icon Peter Berlin.



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