John Sex

John Sex

Born: April 8, 1956
Died: October 24, 1990
in Long Island, New York, USA
John McLaughlin, better known by the stage name John Sex, was an American cabaret singer and performance artist in New York City from the late 1970s until his death in 1990.

Movies for John Sex...

Wigstock: The Movie
Title: Wigstock: The Movie
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: June 9, 1995
Type: Movie
The three-decade-old annual Manhattan gathering of drag queens and their fans is portrayed in this colorful documentary. The film concentrates on the spectacle of the event, providing abundant examples of the elaborate costumes, flamboyant wigs, and campy musical performances that characterize the event.
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Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
Title: Nelson Sullivan's World Of Wonder
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Nelson Sullivan who was the unofficial video documentary filmmaker of the late 1980s downtown New York nightlife and LGBTQ+ community, with extensive archival segments directed by Sullivan himself.
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Resident Alien
Title: Resident Alien
Character: Self
Released: September 14, 1990
Type: Movie
At age 73, writer and melancholy master of the bon mot, Quentin Crisp (1908-1999), became an Englishman in New York. Nossiter's camera follows Crisp about the streets of Manhattan, where Crisp seems very much at home, wearing eye shadow, appearing on a makeshift stage, making and repeating wry observations, talking to John Hurt (who played Crisp in the autobiographical TV movie, "The Naked Civil Servant"), and dining with friends. Others who know Crisp comment on him, on his life as an openly gay man with an effeminate manner, and on his place in the history of gays' social struggle. The portrait that emerges is of one wit and of suffering.
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Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Title: Nelson Sullivan's Video Diaries
Character: Himself
Released: July 3, 1989
Type: Movie
From 1983 to 1989, New Yorker Nelson Sullivan captured more than 1,900 hours of video footage and saved most of it on VHS tapes, making a collection of 601 episodes documenting his everyday life in the East-Village, as well as following some flamboyant local icons like RuPaul, Sylvia Miles, and Phoebe Legere.
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Mondo New York
Title: Mondo New York
Character: Hustle With My Muscle
Released: April 22, 1988
Type: Movie
A young woman wanders around New York City and stumbles across a number of strange characters and settings that represent the "underground" areas of the city. She sees stand up comedy in Central Park, a prostitution auction, a voodoo ceremony, an S&M club, and a number of very interesting performance artists. These are just a few of the sights and sounds of New York that she encounters.
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Undercover Me!
Title: Undercover Me!
Released: January 1, 1988
Type: Movie
A movie trailer for a non-existent Bond-style spy thriller "coming soon to a mini-mall cineplex near you!" Featuring John Sex, Hapi Phace, Laura Levine, Dany Johnson and The French Twist.
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The Perils of P.K
Title: The Perils of P.K
Released: June 6, 1986
Type: Movie
P.K., a former movie star now reduced to working as a stripper in a Las Vegas nightclub, is desperate for a comeback, and thinks she could make one if she could only get a big-name star to appear in a movie with her. She relates all these problems, and many of her fantasies, to her psychiatrist, and also approaches several entertainers working in Las Vegas to try to get them to help make her dream come true.
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Hustle with My Muscle
Title: Hustle with My Muscle
Released: January 1, 1986
Type: Movie
This rapid-montage music video for John Sex’s song “Hustle with My Muscle” portrays the singer as a ladies’ man with ample endowment to share. “Can you handle all the man below my belt?” he provocatively asks.
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John Sex: The True Story
Title: John Sex: The True Story
Character: Himself
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
A profile of the East Village personality John Sex.
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Final Reward
Title: Final Reward
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
A fascinating drama-document on the punk period.