It was shot in color but I unfortunately saw it in black & white on an old VHS tape. It’s probably the first gay coming of age story caught on film.
Can Cyrus and some Indian mystics help Ephiram realize that being gay is not bad?įor its time this was groundbreaking. He begins to realize he’s gay but has trouble coming to grips with it because of his ex.
He runs into Indians and hunky Cyrus Wheelwright (John Iverson). A young man named Ephiram (Morgan Royce) is in the wilderness fleeing a vicious male lover. This takes place in the American West of the 1870s. The journey of 19th-century frontiersman Ephraim MacIver and the adventures, stories, and homosexual relationships he had with other men in the American wilderness. The books in the series are produced in conjunction with Little Sister’s Book and Art Emporium, the heroic Vancouver bookstore well-known for its anti-censorship efforts.1h 19min | Drama, Romance, Western | 11 March 1970 (USA) Little Sister’s Classics is a new series of books from Arsenal Pulp Press, reviving lost and out-of-print gay and lesbian classic books, both fiction and nonfiction. With an introduction by Michael Bronski, editor of Pulp Friction and author of The Pleasure Principle. Unique among pulp novels of the time, the gay characters in Song of the Loon are strong and romantically drawn, which has earned the book a place in the canon of gay American literature. The most popular erotic gay book of the 1960s and 1970s, Song of the Loon was the inspiration for two sequels, a 1970 film of the same name, at least one porn movie and a parody novel called Fruit of the Loon. Along his journey, he meets a number of characters who share with him stories, wisdom and homosexual encounters. Published well ahead of its time, in 1966 by Greenleaf Classics, Song of the Loon is a romantic novel that tells the story of Ephraim MacIver and his travels through the wilderness. a happy amalgam of James Fenimore Cooper, Jean Genet and Hudson’s Green Mansions.”-from the cover copy of the 1969 edition
“More completely than any author before him, Richard Amory explores the tormented world of love for man by man.
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