Leather Jacket Love Story

The movie is in black-white, it has a coarse film-grain and a lot of background noise that might turn off many people. However, the story line is still relevant today and most of all the film portrays a psychologically healthy view of gay men who enjoy their fetishes, practice safe sex and are genuine buddies. I highly recommend this movie. It also portrays a diverse gay community that includes intelligent, caring, and fighting against gay-abuse drag queens, and overall a community of right minded individuals (gay and straight) in a suburban cafe in Silver Springs, LA. The overarching story on top of this marvelous tableaux is a refreshing love story of an 18-year-old open gay guy falling in love with a 29-year-old open leather guy. The development of their relationship takes place over 72 hours. The protagonists have gay friends who take/invite them to leather clubs and bath houses that are portrayed as good places filled with sexually healthy people (there are no freaks or weirdos). The lack of hunky young guys may be disappointing, but the people shown represent the spectrum of young, old, athletic, and non-athletic individuals who visited these clubs. It is the normalcy of the situations and settings against a backdrop of developing love that I find extraordinary and far-sighted by the directors and producers. I cannot think of many other gay themed films that do this. For young people, this is a fascinating old gay movie made at a time when tragedy and death were common themes in gay movies. For mature people, I ask why were we not aware of this film before. One historical limitation of the film is that it portrays relatively affluent, educated white people. There is one black drag queen, but generally all characters are white. This may be disappointing for non-white people, but remember that when Gay Men’s Health Crisis (GHMC) in New York and gay-support institutions started in response to the AIDs crisis in the late 1980s, they were started by rich, gay white men and oriented to helping middle class, educated white men. The embrace of all peoples of color and background only started to happen in the late 1990s when this film was made. Nowadays gay films show positive and negative issues for all people, and gay institutions are much more inclusive.

This movie is nothing more than a thinly vailed porn movie. And a poor one at that!If you like horrendous silly movies this is for you! It had nothing to do with any kindof a gay love story. The queens were horrible and the acting? It just wasn't there.If you want a REALLY good and real look at gay love I strongly recommend Patrik 1.5Now this movie was sensational! But if you buy leather jacket love storyyou might as well flush yourmoney down the toilet

Not sure why it was filmed in black and white rather than color (this movie is only 10 years old). It was slow at times, far fetched other times (the characters in the movie were supposedly only 10-11 yrs apart but it was truthfully much more than that - why try and sell us on something so trivial and bogus like we are clueless idiots? The young boy's best friend constantly referred to his older companion as a "troll"....you would hope a true best friend would care less about the other man's age but rather how he treats his BF, etc. The music was forgettable as was the acting, but I did make it thru to the predictable ending.

I'm thrilled this is finally being released on DVD. I've had the VHS for several years. The story revolves around a somewhat spoiled gay young man just breaking away from his all-too-accepting family and trying stick his toe just a little further in the pool of gay life, and maybe scratch some itches along the way. His oh-so-worldy best friend thinks he should jump headlong into the fray, but the protagonist holds back, shielded by his poetry and his bourgeois values. The waves of neighborhood gay life pull him in, well over his head, into the larger chosen family, and it's quite a ride.Black and white works for this. The casting is spot on. There are echoes of John Waters all over the place, but that's not a bad thing. The movie is dreamlike, and the story will stay with you.