The Leather Boys

The Leather Boys is a 1964 British drama film about the rocker subculture in London featuring a gay motorcyclist. This film is notable as an early example of a film that violated the Hollywood production code, yet was still shown in the United States, as well as an important film in the genre of queer cinema.

The book was published in 1961 under the pseudonym Eliot Georgean inversion of the penname of the famous 19th century female author, Mary Ann Evans, who published as George Eliot. Freeman is credited under her own name in the film as the author of the screenplay based on the novel of Eliot George. The original novel is explicit about the sexual relationship between the two male characters, and about the odds that the heros wife is pregnant by another man. It also portrays the gang to which they belong as a criminal network, and ends with a botched robbery committed by the two main characters.The film plot was changed considerably, presumably to make it more palatable to 1964 moviegoers. Only one of the main male characters is gay in the film with the hero Reggie leaving Pete upon finding out his sexuality at the films end and there is no criminal activity at all. Even the wifes infidelity is portrayed ambiguously. ........

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