Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story

so this was a documentary that had been sitting in my watchlist for a while and i was supposed to give it a watch during pride month but just didn’t get around to it so i thought that i should finally sit down and give it a watch and today was that day and i’ve got to say that this was such a well detailed one on one of the first gay men in the porn industry to make himself such a well known name during his time and to be such a big advocate for the lgbt community back then with him constantly giving back to the community with the money that he’d make from his porno films but it was also super saddening to hear that where his money was very much welcomed that he himself wasn’t always welcomed because many didn’t like what he did for as a job and it was just so disappointing to hear when watching because often times his money wasn’t accepted by some people because of him being apart of the gay porn industry and creating those types of films which is such a very stupid reason for them not to take his money or like him over but this was back then and so the adult entertainment world wasn’t looked very positively but with that being said this man sure had his ups and downs in his life but you could tell that his heart was in the right place though there are 2 things that i wish he took more into consideration and that was of him having condoms be used in his films and i know they said in this documentary that he didn’t use them because he wanted his films to feel more authentic but the health of his male performers was way more important especially during the time of the aids epidemic where many gay men were losing their lives left and right and he eventually did start using condoms in his films after everything was going on but i feel as though he should have been doing that from the start and the other thing is that i wish he had more men of color in his films instead of it just being a cast of white men.

so this was a documentary that had been sitting in my watchlist for a while and i was supposed to give it a watch during pride month but just didn’t get around to it so i thought that i should finally sit down and give it a watch and today was that day and i’ve got to say that this was such a well detailed one on one of the first gay men in the porn industry to make himself such a well known name during his time and to be such a big advocate for the lgbt community back then with him constantly giving back to the community with the money that he’d make from his porno films but it was also super saddening to hear that where his money was very much welcomed that he himself wasn’t always welcomed because many didn’t like what he did for as a job and it was just so disappointing to hear when watching because often times his money wasn’t accepted by some people because of him being apart of the gay porn industry and creating those types of films which is such a very stupid reason for them not to take his money or like him over but this was back then and so the adult entertainment world wasn’t looked very positively but with that being said this man sure had his ups and downs in his life but you could tell that his heart was in the right place though there are 2 things that i wish he took more into consideration and that was of him having condoms be used in his films and i know they said in this documentary that he didn’t use them because he wanted his films to feel more authentic but the health of his male performers was way more important especially during the time of the aids epidemic where many gay men were losing their lives left and right and he eventually did start using condoms in his films after everything was going on but i feel as though he should have been doing that from the start and the other thing is that i wish he had more men of color in his films instead of it just being a cast of white men.