Vintage Gay Loops featuring John Holmes

Posted by 9inchboy on April 4th, 2011 filed in PornStar

Vintage Gay Loops does two things: it gives us old movies digitally re-mastered and at a good playback quality, and it follows the history of gay porn more or less from day one, certainly in movie terms. It also carries a blog, though when I saw this in April 2010 it had not been updated since November 2009, so we’re not sure what’s going on there.

But meanwhile: once you get into the members’ area you find a good selection of oldies from the past. You’re going to find guys with outrageous hair, clothes and mustaches in here as we are taken back to the 1970’s and 1980’s, but that is part of the attraction. If you remember names such as John Holmes, then you will find his first ever gay scene in here, and if you remember those movies where the boys were young, blonde and shaggy and the men were from Marlborough Country with mustaches, jeans and hairy chests, then you’re going to find them in here too.
But the main point is that the site is about preserving and updating these movies. Remember that they were originally filmed on celluloid, or later videos, and that the visual quality isn’t going to be as good as if these were filmed today. But the guys behind Vintage Gay Loops have had a go at touching things up, and making these scenes as clear and digital as they possibly could. If you want to see what I mean then check out the clips and trailers on the free tour. These play in Flash and you not only get the great blasts from the pasts, but you get some of the original crackle and hiss too, this simply adds to the appeal of the videos.

You will also notice that there is neat information about the movies, you can click through the actors and find what else they appear in, and the site has done its homework in this respect. There were 61 movies when I last called in and I found WMV formats in use with a resolution of 720 x 480 @ 2000k, which was fine – any bigger and you’d start to lose quality.

There are galleries too, though not as many as there are videos, but videos come with some sample screen shots, so the site really is mainly about the movies, and taking you back to the pre-condom days. But it also carried the ‘Pride Timeline’ page which is really interesting. This starts, at the bottom of the page, with information about Sappho, around 600BC, and comes right up to date in 2009 with the first openly gay head of state to be elected, in Iceland if you were wondering. Ok, so you may only read it once but it’s the first time I’ve seen such interesting and historical information on a gay porn site.

So, your next question is, is it worth joining Vintage Gay Loops? Well, yes. The recent news is that they are still going and still adding, there are over 60 scenes here now and there are some well known names. The site is out there as we speak, researching and finding old clips and scenes, putting them into a digital format and touching them up, and they are still updating with more information and movies. As for memberships, there is a trial offer at $2.95 for three days and a good monthly rate of $29.95, plus a three-monthly option which gives you even better value for money. And the other reason for joining is, of course, to find things like the classic John Holmes scenes, and his first gay one in particular, plus all the other scenes you can remember from your youth. Check it out, you will probably find that scene that you remember fondly from your first ever look at gay porn back in…