'Halsted more or less created the world of gay sexual art and experimentation.

His films have also been shown the Netherlands Film Museum and in competition at The Deauville Film Festival. Plays Itself was sponsored by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art on Febru and another took place on Decemat the Los Angeles art gallery Human Resources. Plays Itself are the only gay pornographic movies in the permanent collection of the Museum of Modern Art, where they were screened before a capacity audience on April 23, 1974. Gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, sex club ownerįred Charles Halsted (J– May 9, 1989) was an American gay pornographic film director, actor, escort, publisher, and sex club owner.