#14: The Fall of Al Goldstein/Part 1

THE GREAT PORNOGRAPHER GETS SCREWED With the creation of Screw and Midnight Blue, Al Goldstein liberated sex from the shadows of shame and illegal obscenity. He had no idea what it would lead to today. But in his era, the sexual revolution was a cry for liberation and the laws against sex came tumbling down in his wake. Episode Links I Goldstein: My Screwed Life, by Al Goldstein and Josh Alan Friedman When Sex Was Dirty, by Josh Alan Friedman Screw magazine, ,024, "The Weird Sex Life of R. Crumb", illustrated by cartoonist R. Crumb Screw magazine, , "Is God Gay?", illustration of Al Goldstein as God by Curt Hoppe "Al Goldstein donned a fake prison outfit before his sentencing yesterday." New York Times, 2002 Goldstein with legendary Harlem congressman, Adam Clayton Powell, in late ‘60s. Al Goldstein’s bar mitzvah, 1949. In three years, he would wear the same undersized suit for his first hooker.

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#14: The Fall of Al Goldstein/Part 1 is an episode from Tales of... by Josh Alan Friedman by Josh Alan Friedman.

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This episode was published on Jan 24, 2019.

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