Vintage Gay Movies

Vintage Gay Movies Review

Vintage Gay Movies is a site in the Studio Presse network featuring classic gay porn from Bijou Gay Classics and Cadinot. It brings us gay porn  from as far back as the 1970s with titles like Matt Sterling's "The Bigger The Better", Leo Ford's "Blondes Do It Best", Al Parker's "Wanted", SM classic "Born to Raise Hell", and many others from the 1970s through the 1990s. It's been a while since our last visit, so let's head over and see what's been happening.

Bijou Video founder Steven Toushin opened the Bijou Theater and sex club in 1970 in Chicago's Old Town. Many notable gay porn stars and directors have worked with Toushin over the decades, either in front of or behind the camera. Al Parker, Toby Ross, and Matt Sterling are among the well-known directors, another named Wakefield Poole passed on a little over a year ago. Over the years, Bijou Video acquired other studios like Hand in Hand Films, Brentwood Studios, and Surge Studios, and they've restored their catalogs or are doing so, so there's always something "new" coming from this classic porn studio.

I started watching gay porn videos in the early 1980s, so VintageGayMovies is a walk down memory lane. These were the times of moustaches when men wore denim with bulging crotches and hankies in their back pockets to show various preferences or kinks. Men were natural with body hair and untrimmed pubes. Most of the performers aren't credited, but a few are, so you can expect to see Al Parker, Jack Wrangler, Kip Noll, Sky Dawson, J.W. King, Jon King, and so many others we've enjoyed watching over the decades. There are many titles from the 1980s and 1990s and a good number of videos from French gay porn director Jean Daniel Cadinot.

These were also the days when gay porn videos told us stories as well as showed us hot sex. Vintage porn was produced at a time when men had to go to theaters to watch their gay porn, so these are full-length movies featuring cowboys, leather men, Roman centurions, daddies, surfers, you name it. The men suck and fuck everywhere and anywhere – public toilets, bars, playrooms, outside on their Jeep or at the beach, dark alleys, warehouses, and bath houses. The earlier productions, now called pre-condom classics, were produced before AIDS and long before the term bareback was coined; the ones that came in the mid-80s and later feature men fucking with rubbers.

Before we talk about the movies, let's talk about how Studio Presse works. If you're a moderate to heavy viewer, consider their unlimited streaming membership. It lets you watch as much as you want, but downloads aren't included and cost members extra. You can buy tickets and use them in an à la carte system where you redeem a certain number of tickets to watch or download videos. This works fine if you're a casual user and just want to watch a porno every now and then.

Vintage Gay Movies opened in late November 2021 with 81 videos and has grown to 292 streaming videos. The videos play in an adaptive player that resizes them to fit your device's screen. The quality is what you'd expect from videos that are over 30, 40 or even 50 years old - but they're still enjoyable. They're not that sharp and clear on large monitors, but you can also shrink your browser to get better results. I watched them on my Android phone, and they fared pretty well. If you buy any download tickets you'll end up with movies that play at 640x480 to 720x480, although there may be other sizes.

Each movie has a picture set. These pics are sceencaps displayed as thumbs below the video player, but they're actually full sized pictures shown smaller on the page, so while they're not clickable, if you save any, you'll get the full-sized pics at around 795x1080. They're actually not bad quality consider their age and that they're screencaps. There are six to 12 pics for each episode. If you save the pics from the thumbs, you'll get the WebP versions, but open them in a new tab before saving, and you'll get the JPG versions.

Your membership or tickets can be used at all 40 sites (they call them theaters) in the Studio Presse network of over 21,000 videos and they claim 100 or more weekly updates. There's Sketboy, with over 1,500 gay foot fetish videos; FrenchPorn, where men from France with uncut cocks, suck and fuck; and you'll find all the Cadinot videos, as well. There's heavy kink and BDSM, sucking and fucking, interracial action, twinks, daddies, and just about every kind of gay porn you can imagine in this massive network. 

There are some issues. Since our last visit, VintageGayMovies has stopped updating - the site added its last video in late October of 2023. The tour says there are 120 new releases every month, but this refers to the network and not VintageGayMovies specifically. They also list over 26,000 videos in their network of 39 theaters, but videos can appear in more than one theater, so this number is exaggerated. Still, there's a lot of gay porn here to keep you entertained. While I found the site and videos played well on my phone, there's no pagination, so you can only navigate one page forward or back at a time, and I can only navigate up to two pages forward or back on my desktop computer.

Finally, under the site's DVD section you'll find DVDs from both Bijou Gay Classics and Cadinot, and while many have a scene or two listed in the video section, others can only be viewed by purchasing the entire DVD. Each DVD is a separate purchased costing around $25, and you can't use tickets to purchase them.

Vintage Gay Movies offers gay porn from the 1970s through the 1990s, so you can expect men with natural body hair and unshaved pubes, porn stars from days gone by, and a number of pre-condom classics, although some of the videos use condoms. The site now has 292 streaming, mobile-compatible videos from Bijou Classics and Cadinot DVDs, and unsurprisingly, these videos are vintage quality. I enjoyed taking this tour down memory lane, and while I was disappointed that the site no longer updates, members get access to a huge, frequently updating gay porn network with more sucking, fucking, jerking and kink than you could watch in a year.

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