Press

2024

Beauty Translated Podcast: Becoming Letterboxd Users with Liz Purchell

The Globe and Mail: Four decades later, is it time for a reappraisal of pornography’s cinematic golden age?

2023

Against the Grain
Appeared in documentary about film preservation by Elijah Drenner and Joe Rubin.

Horror Queers Podcast: Dressed to Kill

Hollywood Suite’s A Year in Film Podcast: Outrageous! and Looking for Mr. Goodbar

The New York Review of Books: Queens of the Screen

2022

Public Seminar: Saving Gay Pornography

TCM Slumberground: The Gay Girls Riding Club

The Austin Chronicle: Film Historian Elizabeth Purchell Leads the Reappraisal of Porn

Them: Why Don’t We Have a Definitive Stonewall Movie?

Fangoria: Sex Demon: Lost Exorcist Porn Rip-Off Surfaces

The Screen Slate Podcast: Ask Any Buddy’s Elizabeth Purchell

The Letterboxd Show: Four Favorites with Elizabeth Purchell

The New York Times: A Queer Film Historian Discusses Movies That Provoke

2021

Them: Our Favorite Queer Films of 2021

Edge Media Network: Exploring the Complicated World of Porn Pioneer Fred Halsted

Cinepunx: Conjuring a Sex Demon with Elizabeth Purchell

The WOW Report: Ask Any Buddy’s Elizabeth Purchell Discusses the Recently-Discovered Gay Adult Film Sex Demon

Fangoria: The Secrets of Gayracula

The New Yorker: The Queer Past Gets Deleted on eBay

2020

Hyperallergic: Snapshots of Gay Culture and History in Pornography

Screen Slate: Ask Any Buddy, Robert Blanchon, and The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography

Paste: Define Frenzy: No Thrill in the Chaste

48Hills: Looking for a Hot Gay Connection? ‘Ask Any Buddy’

Diabolique: Nights in Black Leather: An Interview with Ask Any Buddy Creator Elizabeth Purchell

The Queer Review: Exclusive Interview: Ask Any Buddy director Elizabeth Purchell

The Quietus: Memory Palace: On 'Ask Any Buddy' And The Golden Age Of Gay Porn

2018

Artforum: Best of 2018: Ed Halter