Rainbow Porn Humanities

The Civic Center was full of rainbows on Thursday, including a major arc over the Asian Art Museum.



Perhaps they were a herald of the goings-on at the Veterans Building to the right...



...where signage sprouted on Friday for a 40th anniversary for the gay porn company, Colt Studios (click here for their website).



According to a well-written article by Wyatt Buchanan in the San Francisco Chronicle, of all places: "In 2003, former Falcon director John Rutherford and his partner Tom Settle bought Colt, which had been struggling, and moved it to San Francisco, where it once again became successful." (Click here for the full article.)



The anniversary party was being held in the second-floor Green Room of the Veterans Building...



...and if the flower arrangements were any indication, no expense was being spared.



Plus, you could be a Colt Model yourself, at least in your own mind.



The best part of the "Chronicle" article was a quote at the end from John Karr, who writes a brilliant column about porn every week for the local gay rag, the Bay Area Reporter.

Karr said he wonders about the impact of porn on the sex lives of average gay men, whether it leads them into excessive fringe and fetish practices. "The very profusion of the gay sex film industry has led to super-performers being developed that do not represent the everyday person and the everyday person thinks that's how he should be acting -- and the circle continues," Karr said, adding, "This is something to view in wonderment, instead of condemnation."

Meanwhile, downstairs, a two-day series of educational lectures on "The Crusades" was being held at the Herbst Theatre by an organization called Humanities West (click here for their website). Now that's the gay porn movie I want to see, with Christians and Muslims and Jews throwing out their blood hatreds in favor of simple love and lust.