Richard Locke

Acting

Richard Locke

Born — Died

1941-06-11 — 1996-09-25

Place of birth

Oakland, California, USA

Known for

Acting

Credits

24 titles

Richard was born to Clayton Eugene and Bessie Jewel Holt Locke, the third of four children: his older brother Clay, Jr., older sister Janet and younger brother Robert. Richard died of AIDS after battling the disease for more than thirteen years. Many people in the gay community consider Richard an "AIDS Hero" since his activism in the early years of the epidemic, soon to turn pandemic, did manage to bring illumination about the disease and how to live with it.

Known for

Positive Men poster
NR

Positive Men begins as a docudrama which illustrates the impact of the AIDS epidemic on gay men in the early 1980s. Memories of New York and San Francisco are the backdrop for seven dramatic scenes which designate the intersection of community support, medical science, and gay politics that emerged in response to the AIDS epidemic. Words and images from these scenes resonate throughout the documentary portraits which follow. The interviews, conducted in Toronto and San Francisco (1993-1994), feature artists, filmmakers, AIDS community workers, writers and volunteers who have made unique contributions within the cultural and community responses to AIDS.

Positive Men

1995

5B poster
5.9

At the heart of the HIV/AIDS crisis and widespread hysteria, a single number and letter designated a ward on the fifth floor of San Francisco General Hospital, the first in the country designed specifically to deal with AIDS patients. The unit's nurses' emphasis on humanity and consideration of holistic well-being was a small miracle amidst a devastating crisis and the ensuing panic about risk and infection.

5B

2018

An Evening With Richard Locke poster
NR

Richard Locke was the star of the Gage Trilogy, ground-breaking feature length gay porn films made in the late seventies. This tape is a document of an erotic performance intercut with statistics of HIV transmission in North America.

An Evening With Richard Locke

1992

Pool Party poster
NR

When two handsome young buddies are hanging around the affluent surroundings of their backyard pool getting high and enjoying the sun, anything can happen. When the goodlooking hunk of a poolman shows up, the two ask him to join in the fun. Declaring he's straight, the poolman says he'll return later to finish his chores. Fantasies abound, as we are taken through a kaleidoscope of sexual experiences, none of which can match the fantasies inspired by the muscular poolman. Finally he returns to finish the pool, but as it turns out, it's only the beginning.

Pool Party

1975

Love a Man with a Beard 3 poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Love a Man with a Beard 3

1984

Kansas City Trucking Co. poster
6.2

Hank, a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast.

Kansas City Trucking Co.

1976

Film credits

2010s · 3 titles

1990s · 3 titles

1980s · 5 titles

1970s · 11 titles

Pool Party poster
NR

When two handsome young buddies are hanging around the affluent surroundings of their backyard pool getting high and enjoying the sun, anything can happen. When the goodlooking hunk of a poolman shows up, the two ask him to join in the fun. Declaring he's straight, the poolman says he'll return later to finish his chores. Fantasies abound, as we are taken through a kaleidoscope of sexual experiences, none of which can match the fantasies inspired by the muscular poolman. Finally he returns to finish the pool, but as it turns out, it's only the beginning.

Pool Party

1975

Kansas City Trucking Co. poster
6.2

Hank, a trucker, turns out new hire Joe on a long haul to the West Coast.

Kansas City Trucking Co.

1976

L.A. Tool & Die poster
6.6

Hank follows the man of his dreams across the country to settle down.

L.A. Tool & Die

1979

Take One poster
9.5

Explores the fantasies of a group of men, having them articulate their desires to the camera, then allowing them to live them out in elegant, abstract, and experimental scenes.

Take One

1977

Forbidden Letters poster
7.5

Unable to clear his head through casual sex, Larry reads through his letters to Richard, his older lover set to be released from prison.

Forbidden Letters

1979

El Paso Wrecking Corp. poster
4.5

Hank and Gene are fired from their trucker jobs at the Kansas City Trucking Company after an alcohol-fueled brawl.

El Paso Wrecking Corp.

1977

Gemini poster
9.0

A man with a split personality is torn between nasty, back-alley sex and his clean, straight-laced life with his lover.

Gemini

1977

Passing Strangers poster
7.6

A closeted gay teenager finds love, community, and a political awakening when he decides to answer an older, jaded man's personal ad.

Passing Strangers

1974

Dreamer poster
NR

Clay Grant has sex dreams about the men he encountered the day before.

Dreamer

1974

Two Days in a Hot Place poster
9.0

Luke Hanson gets much more than he bargained for when he decides to drive out to Los Angeles for the weekend.

Two Days in a Hot Place

1977

The Sins of Johnny X poster
2.0

A unsatisfied lover looks for new spice by hiring Johnny X, an escort listed in the Advocate's Trader Dick personals.

The Sins of Johnny X

1975

Behind the camera