There Are No More Closets: The Films and Videos of Wakefield Poole, Volume 2

THERE ARE NO MORE CLOSETS is a three-volume anthology collecting the complete works of pioneering gay film and videomaker Wakefield Poole. This second volume brings together Poole’s softcore film BIBLE! (1974) and Jim Tushinski’s feature-length documentary I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE (2010).

After the back-to-back successes of BOYS IN THE SAND (1971) and BIJOU (1972), Wakefield Poole set about making his most ambitious—and most unexpected—film yet: a lavishly-produced adaptation of the stories of Adam and Eve, David and Bathsheba, and Sampson and Delilah. Featuring a memorable comedic performance from THE DEVIL IN MISS JONES star Georgina Spelvin as Bathsheba, WAKEFIELD POOLE’S BIBLE! is a subversively erotic tribute to the women of the Good Book and to Old Hollywood silent cinema.

Made decades later, Jim Tushinski’s I ALWAYS SAID YES: THE MANY LIVES OF WAKEFIELD POOLE explores the many different eras of Poole’s life as a dancer, director, choreographer, filmmaker, art collector, gallery owner, pornographer, and chef. An evocative portrait of the gay liberation era, I ALWAYS SAID YES is a touching story of artistic integrity and disappointment, self-destruction, reinvention, love, sex, fortitude, and a little musical comedy.