Published: 12 May 2020
Last updated: 5 March 2024
‘Regular’ Jewish parents turn gay porn powerhouse in new Netflix documentary (Times of Israel)
Rachel Mason had an incredibly normal childhood. She and her two brothers grew up in Los Angeles with a warm-hearted, eternally happy father and a somewhat stricter, religiously conservative mother.
They went to synagogue, they did their homework, and Rachel tended to run around with an early video-camera. Only as she entered high school and gravitated to the “counter-culture” and the “queer kids,” did she realise her parents were far from dull — they were revolutionaries.
‘My parents owned a secret porn shop’ (Jewish Chronicle)
A Netflix documentary tells the story of a conventional Jewish couple's big secret - that they ran Los Angeles' pioneering gay porn shop.
Photo: Barry Mason, left, and Rachel Mason in the documentary 'Circus of Books' (Courtesy)
