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Visit Jim Tushinski's YouTube channel for videos, including clips from his documentaries and more. If you want to see the YouTube-banned video Jan-Michael Vincent is My Muse, watch it here.

Jim's feature-length documentary, based on the autobiography of influential filmmaker Wakefield Poole, is completing production this summer. For more information, please see the official Dirty Poole Web site.

Jim is also researching and writing the first biography of filmmaker Tom Graeff (auteur behind the cult classic Teenagers from Outer Space). Check out the Tom Graeff Biography Project Web site for more information.


Documentary
That Man: Peter Berlin

That Man: Peter Berlin

"One of the enduring icons of gay male eroticism, the phenomenon known as Peter Berlin is explored, explained, ogled and interviewed in the superb documentary That Man: Peter Berlin."

Nathan Lee
New York Times

Books
Identity Envy

Identity Envy: Wanting to Be Who We're Not

"Entertaining and enlightening... The writers take on matters of class, race, religion -- and so much more -- all with intelligence, insight, and compelling honesty."

Stephen McCauley
author of The Object of My Affection

Van Allens Ecstasy

Van Allen's Ecstasy

"Astonishing... riveting...The reader is guided forward by Tushinski's clear-eyed, luminous prose... Totally authentic and emotionally true."

C. Kevin Smith
Lambda Book Report