The Safer Sex Shorts

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Title

The Safer Sex Shorts

Subject

AIDS, activist video, sefer sex, sexuality, gay and lesbian

Description

Made for activist safer sex education to diverse groups by GMHC's media department and led by Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz. Acquired for research for my doctoral disseration, then monograph, AIDS TV.

A series of erotic and explicit shorts combine the driving rhythms of music videos with slick, rapidly edited images. Scenarios include how-tos on using a condom, supplementing fun with food, and making it in the back seat.

Something Fierce [00:00 - 03:50]
Midnight Snack [03:52 - 07:18]
Car Service [07:21 - 11:20]
Current Flow [11:24 - 15:54]
Law and Order [15:56 - 19:40]
Untitled Short (made for NY Ball Culture) [19:43 -25:00]

Date

1989

Moving Image Item Type Metadata

Duration

28 mins

Producer

GMHC: Audio Visual Department

Director

Jean Carlomusto and Gregg Bordowitz

URL

https://brooklyn-cuny.yuja.com/V/Video?v=10591693&node=46256041&a=211577419

Files

Citation

“The Safer Sex Shorts,” VHS Activism Archive , accessed December 8, 2025, https://activismvhs.omeka.net/items/show/820.

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