Wakefield Poole, Pioneer in Gay Pornography, Dies at 85 He gave up a dance career to create a crossover, and now classic, hit film in 1971 that had both gay and straight audiences, and celebrities ...

Wakefield Poole, the maker of classic erotic films The Boys in the Sand, and Bijou, gets to tell his own story, in the documentary feature, I Always Said Yes. Director and producer Jim Tushinski's ...

Wakefield Poole never considered most of the erotic gay films he made to be pornographic, though it's a label he knows is inescapable. "I saw what I did as experimental filmmaking, not pornography,… ...

Although he worked as a dancer, choreographer, and shop owner, Wakefield Poole is best known for his groundbreaking feature-length gay erotic films, particularly 'Boys in the Sand.' ...

The first thing that you notice is the art. Wakefield Poole’s two-story Jacksonville townhouse is full of colorful paintings. Over the course of a half-century-plus of collecting, Poole has ...

A “straight” construction worker receives an invitation to a mysterious club named Bijou after witnessing a car accident in this second feature from BOYS IN THE SAND filmmaker Wakefield Poole ...