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Director

Pat Rocco

Gay Erotic Video Index

aka

Brad Kingston

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born	1934	from	Brooklyn, NY
performed as	Pat Rocco

notes

Rocco's love of film got him to open a 16mm theater that could show the old movies he loved. He got his start in production by answering an ad for a photographer of male nudes. He then moved to private 8mm softcore loops with an innovation: a story line.
In 1968 the Park Theater in Los Angeles, feeling they were good enough for them to show, asked to show them theatrically, another first. People were worried that the public would revolt when men were shown kissing.
Rocco's films were romantic and showed masculine gay men in a positive light. Previously, gay characters were expected to be abused or shown as demoralized and depraved.
His films became so popular that there were big opening night celebrations. The performers that he used multiple times became recognizable on the street. There was even a long line of people asking to appear in a Rocco production, so much so that he had to put up a fence around his house and get a guard dog.
Rocco was also very popular in the community with his activism and can certainly be considered one of those on the forefront of gay rights. He was a part of the Christopher Street West Association and organized its first Carnival.
Evidently there was a police raid on his home in or before 1974. The entire Hollywood vice squad spent 11 hours searching his house for something incriminating, finding nothing. The accompanying court case took almost an entire year before it was dismissed.
Rocco didn't want to get into hardcore because people didn't want to wait thru a plot to see the sex. He wanted beauty more than he wanted genitals.
See Screw Magazine #27, Sept. 1969.
In 1969 Dick Winter (MCC), Brian Reynolds (Rocco model) and Jim Kepner (Advocate film reviewer) founded the Society of Pat Rocco's Enlightened Enthusiasts (SPREE) to further the making of gay oriented film and stage productions. It published a small newsletter of their activities.
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Used the name Stu Drexl as the producer for The Light from the Second Story Window.

videos

year	title	studio	category	rating	alias	type
year	title	studio	category	rating	alias	type

awards

1984 Gay Producers Association

Pioneer Awards

references

Pat Rocco Male Film Review: Bizarre Productions
"The Aura of Fun Living" ERA #1, pg. 52 (Review)
Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 24 1968: Bizarre Productions pg. 2
Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 24 1968: Bizarre Productions pg. 2
Physique Pictorial Vol. 17 No. 2-4 Jan. 1969 pg. 40
Catalog of Hollywood Models & Feature Films by Pat Rocco No. 26 1970: Bizarre Productions pg. 2
Gerald Strickland. "A Legend in His Own Time - Pat Rocco" Spree News Vol. 2 No. 2 Jun. 1970 pg. 6 (Essay)
S.P.R.E.E.. "Report from Hollywood Spree" Spree News Vol. 2 No. 2 Jun. 1970 pg. 9 (Notes)
Cinématique. The Advocate #43, Vol. 4 No. 16 Sep. 30, 1970 pg. 15 (Advertisement)
Spree News Vol. 2 No. 11 Oct.-Nov. 1970 (Cover)
Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 1 Dec. 1970 pg. 5
"Hey Good Lookin' What 'Cha Got Chookin'?" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 2 Jan. 1971 pg. 18 (Notes)
"Happy Birthday Pat" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 3 Feb. 1971 pg. 2 (Notes)
Bill Dover. "Pat Rocco in Review" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 3 Feb. 1971 pg. 24 (Essay)
"Events!" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 6 May 1971 pg. 7 (Notes)
Gerald Strickland. "Just What the Heck is SPREE" Spree News Pictorial Vol. 3 No. 7 Jun. 1971 pg. 23 (Essay)
Physique Pictorial Vol. 19 No. 1 Jun. 1971 pg. 18
Physique Pictorial Vol. 21 Jul. 1972 pg. 2,24
Robert Leighton. "Gayflicks: Pat Rocco and "One Adventure"" Gay Times #8, 1973 pg. 8 (Essay)
Jim Kepner. "A Lost Chance" In Touch Vol. 1 No. 8 May 1974 pg. 40 (Essay)
Physique Pictorial Vol. 25 May 1974 pg. 3,9
Charles Anson. "The War Against Gay Films" Gay Movie Guide Jul. 1974 pg. 38 (Essay)
"Spree Golden" In Touch Vol. 1 No. 12 Sep. 1974 pg. 64 (Pictures)
Siebenand, Paul. The Beginnings of Gay Cinema in Los Angeles: The Industry and the Audience. Los Angles, CA: USC, 1975 pg. 16,27,50,55-79,106,189,283,285,297
"Pat Rocco's "Drifter"" Gay Times #35, 1975 pg. 8 (Review/Pictures)
P.R. Productions. In Touch No. 21 Dec.-Jan. 1975 pg. 74 (Advertisement)
Jeremy Hughes. "Professional Innovator" In Touch No. 19 Aug.-Sep. 1975 pg. 54 (Interview)
Spree News Pictorial May 1976 pg. 2,3,4
"Drummer Goes to a Slave Auction" Drummer Vol. 1 No. 6 May-Jun. 1976 pg. 14 (News)
P.R. Productions. In Touch No. 25 Sep.-Oct. 1976 pg. 78 (Advertisement)
Harold Fairbanks. "The All-Male Film" Stallion Vol. 1 No. 2 May 1982 pg. 22 (Essay)
Bill Bottiggi. "The Gay Film Heritage: Fred Halsted" Manshots Vol. 2 No. 4 Jan. 1990 pg. 6 (Essay/Pictures)
Jerry Douglas. "Jaguar Productions Part 2" Manshots Vol. 8 No. 7 Jul. 1996 pg. 10 (Essay)

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