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ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog’s unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America. Gene Burkard, a once-closeted Midwesterner and GI, found freedom in San Diego, where he transformed men’s fashion into something cosmopolitan, carefree and trend-setting.
Jul 19, 2022 · Telling a straightforward tale about this queer-skewing business, “All Man” opens up inquiries on how masculinity has been packaged for the American consumer, straight and gay alike.
- Manuel Betancourt
Jun 1, 2021 · David Chlopecki, the founder of the NYC-based fetish-meets-streetwear brand Slick It Up, got a hold of International Male in the ’90s, when he was a teenager in the Adirondacks. “It’s just the...
- Nathan Tavares
Movie Info. Synopsis ALL MAN: The International Male Story journeys across three decades of the catalog's unlikely but lasting impact on fashion, masculinity, and sexuality in America.
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- Peter Jones Productions
- Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed
- Documentary, LGBTQ+
All Man traces the catalog’s meteoric rise in the cut-throat mail-order business and how the onset of HIV-AIDS devastated the International Male family and forced Gene to make the hardest decision of his life.
May 25, 2023 · In their first film together, directors Bryan Darling and Jesse Finley Reed explore how the unlikely mail-order catalog changed men’s fashion forever.
Narrated by Matt Bomer and featuring an all-star cast of celebrity stylists, fashion influencers, and comedic actors, All Man: The International Male Story celebrates International Male in an appropriately colorful ‘80s throwback style.
