Gay Short- Jackpot (2012)

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This period gay short looks at a 14-year old boy in 1994 who, frustrated at his department store catalog offerings, learns that there's a big ol' stash of gay porn at a dumpster.

I liked it because I'm right at that cusp between the guys who didn't have internet porn growing up, and those who did. My first introduction to porn was a stash of my father's Inches, Mandate, and Blue Boy (there's this incredibly complicated back story of why my dad had a gay porn stash that I won't get into) when I was 11 in 1997, but what I really grew up on was the Nifty Archive, when I started reading 98 Degrees, N'Sync, and BSB erotic fanfiction when I was 13 in 1999. (It's amazing how often a famous celebrity boybander would fall in love with an Average Joe 20-year old that they meet at a concert.) Even then, I still remember keeping a couple of pictures I cut out from catalogs or teen idol mags.

As for the short itself, I really liked how it captured the "mood and feel" of adolescence in the 90's (check out the vintage Gameboy controller and Sub Pop sticker)...and despite being kind of skinny I thought the gay porn star really evoked a sense of circa mid-90's Blue Boy, right down to the period haircut. (It kinda seems like early/mid-90's porn seemed to lean towards bulkier, more roided out types than the late 90's/early '00s lean swimmer types, if I'm remembering correctly.)

 

I also watched this and figured the bully came out sometime around 1999 or 2000.