It was at the Lindell Boulevard home of the now-deceased Buddy Walton, widely known as St. Story stumbled upon the films in the mid-1990s, a half century after the pool party, at an estate sale. Watch a clip from the 1945 home movies of gay men at a pool party. “I kind of couldn’t believe I was seeing it.”
“There was such a beauty in that moment,” Story said.
Louis filmmaker Geoff Story has begun weaving the films into a documentary, “Gay Home Movie.” It offers a rare glimpse into a largely invisible world, a time when same-sex relationships were not only looked at as immoral - they were illegal.Īs a gay man, Story is fascinated by the brittle, flickering scenes that include a uniformed World War II soldier kissing another man.
