The First Gay Porn Film: A Sexy History of Queer Porn

Pornography has been with us for us likely as long as we’ve been humans. And it wasn’t always heterosexual.

It didn’t take long for gay porn films to be made, but figuring out what the first gay porn film was isn’t so easy.

The early to mid-20th century saw the release of several stag films, a type of pornographic silent film.

The Gay Porn Films of the Early 1900s

This is the first gay porn film to depict queer sex. It is a 1920 silent film based on the opera Madame Butterfly.

Le Menage Moderne Du Madame Butterfly

The Surprise of a Knight, a silent gay porn film from 1929. A more accurate way of describing it is that it’s the first gay porn only film.

The Surprise of a Knight

The 1930 film A Stiff Game is another early gay porn film that stands out for its graphic depiction of homosexual sex.

A Stiff Game

The Hays Code was created to try and curb the public perception that Hollywood was too depraved.

The Hays Code

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