In 1994, Athey became the target of controversy over the use of federal funds to support art work with visible gay content.

That's one reason films with gay content are often popular among women.

The 1960s were also a period where many underground art film makers integrated suggestive or overtly gay content in their work.

Video Marc Dorcel has also expanded to include a range of gay pornographic content.

The company grew to become one of the largest producers of gay adult content in the world.

"I felt I was pushed into denying its gay content to the media," he said, with evident embarrassment.

Some have gay content, but not all of them.

She also said publishers sometimes played down the gay content of a book, presumably to make it more palatable to heterosexual readers.

Robert Mapplethorpe built a reputation precisely on the explicitly gay content of his photography, which came under aggressive political attack in the 1980's.