A tour of the involuntary homoerotic cinema that has been key to our sexual awakening.

"I didn't discover my sexuality with a schoolmate, nor with a summer fling. I discovered my sexuality with Kurt Russell in Blow in Little China».

This is how it begins Cinema Crush: Unintentional Homoerotic Cinema in Our Sexual Awakening, the essay with which the journalist Popy Blasco Check out some of the erotic myths that made us discover our orientation through a lot of commercial films that, in retrospect, appear as unintentionally homoerotic.

The book covers hundreds of titles starring idols overflowing with gay eroticismInvisible to the heteronormative eye; actors and characters who were already legendary, who, while in some aroused admiration, in the LGBTIQ+ community aroused desire.

In addition to establishing the differences between LGBTQ+ cinema and homoerotic or gay-themed cinema, Popy Blasco offers us a comprehensive review of many of the film and television stars that have marked the generation boomerGeneration X, the millennials and Gen Z.

Author's biography

Popy Blasco (Madrid, 1978), author of I was a teen in the 90s, has collaborated with various media outlets such as El País, Vogue, Rolling Stone, Neo2, Vanidad, V Magazine, Primera Línea, Candy, L'Officiel, Playground either GQHe is also a professor of coolhunting at the IED and the IADE, as well as a consultant on social and consumer trends.

In 2004 he started writing his blog PopyB, one of the longest-running in Spanish. As a cultural manager, he directed the film club's programming. Cineshock and has been at the helm of podcasts such as Radioshock and currently, Brown Dicksfor Subterfuge Radio.