A journey through the involuntary homoerotic cinema that has been key to our sexual awakening.
“I didn’t discover my sexuality with a schoolmate, nor with a summer love. I discovered my sexuality with Kurt Russell in Big Trouble in Little China.”
Thus begins Cine Crush. The Involuntary Homoerotic Cinema in Our Sexual Awakening, the essay in which journalist Popy Blasco reviews some of the erotic myths that made us discover our orientation through a bunch of commercial films that, in hindsight, appear as involuntarily homoerotic.
The book covers hundreds of titles starring idols brimming with filogay eroticism, invisible to the heteronormative eye; actors and characters now legendary who, while inspiring admiration in some, sparked desire in the LGTBIQ+ community.
Besides establishing the differences between LGTBIQ+ cinema and homoerotic or filogay cinema, Popy Blasco offers us a thorough review of many of the movie and TV stars who have shaped the boomer generation, Generation X, millennials, and Gen Z.
Author biography
Popy Blasco (Madrid, 1978), author of Yo fui teen en los 90, has contributed to various media outlets such as El País, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Neo2, Vanidad, V Magazine, Primera Línea, Candy, L’Officiel, Playground, and GQ. He is also a coolhunting professor at IED and IADE, as well as a consultant on social and consumer trends.
In 2004, he started writing his blog PopyB, one of the longest-running in Spanish. As a cultural manager, he directed the programming of the film club Cineshock and has led podcasts such as Radioshock and currently Pijas Marrones for Subterfuge Radio.
