title refers to Rosa von Praunheim's film It Is Not the Homosexual Who Is Perverse, But the Society in Which He Lives (1971). Themes and style According to Courtney Fathom Sell of South Coast Today, some of his films explore themes of sexual and interpersonal transgression against cultural norms, frequently blending the artistic and production techniques of independent film with gay pornography. LaBruce's filmmaking style is marked by a blend of explicitly pornographic depictions of sex with more conventional narrative and filmmaking techniques, as well as an interest in extreme topics which mainstream audiences might dismiss as shocking or disturbing taboos. For instance, his films have depicted scenes of sexual fetish and paraphilia, BDSM, gang rape, racially-motivated violence, amputee fetishism, gerontophilia, male and female prostitution, twincest, and zombie and vampire sexuality. He has frequently been identified with the New Queer Cinema movement that emerged in the 1990s, although at the height of that movement's prominence, he rejected the association on the grounds that he felt more personally aligned with the queercore movement. The queercore movement was born in the 1980s and LaBruce was one of the fathers. Noted as the avant-garde and unapologetic gay answer to the punk movement, queercore expressed the very same discontent with society as the punks were stating. Filmography Feature films No Skin Off My Ass (1993) Super 8½ (1994) Hustler White (1996), co-directed & written with Rick Castro Skin Flick / Skin Gang (1999) The Raspberry Reich (2004) Otto; or Up with Dead People (2008) L.A. Zombie (2010) Gerontophilia (2013) Pierrot Lunaire (2014) The Misandrists (2017) Ulrike's Brain (2017) It is Not the Pornographer That is Perverse... (2018) for CockyBoys studio Saint-Narcisse (2020) Short films Boy, Girl (1987) I Know What It's Like to Be Dead (1987) Bruce and Pepper Wayne Gacy's Home Movies (1988), co-directed with Candy Parker A Case for the Closet (1992) The Post Queer Tour (1992) Slam! (1992) Come As You Are (2000) Give Piece of Ass a Chance (2007) The Bad Breast, or The Case of Theda Lange (2010) Weekend in Alphaville (2010) Refugee's Welcome (2017) Scotch Egg (2018) Books Ride Queer, Ride (1996) The Reluctant Pornographer (1997) Awards 2019: XBIZ Award – Gay Director of the Year References External links 1964 births Alt porn Living people Canadian columnists Film directors from Toronto Writers from Toronto Canadian film producers Canadian male screenwriters Canadian pornographers Canadian experimental filmmakers English-language film directors