A video companion to the Instagram account Purchell began in 2018, the Ask Any Buddy movie compiles footage from 126 gay porn features made between 19 into a “day in the life” document/fantasy of urban gay life in the year leading up to the Stonewall uprising and in the years that followed, as a (largely white) gay subculture became codified – in part through the porn films Purchell uses as her material. Today and tomorrow Elizabeth Purchell’s new feature-length video Ask Any Buddy streams as part of the 2020 Outfest Los Angeles LGBTQ Film Festival, which this year (aside from a handful of drive-in screenings) takes place mostly online.
