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Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Synopsis
Maybe it took somebody with no investment in the sexual-culture wars of the 1980s, like 24-year-old filmmaker Daryl Wein, to rediscover a lightning-rod figure like safe-sex pioneer Richard Berkowitz and present him without prejudice. A one-time S/M hustler, Berkowitz and his friend Michael Callen, supported by controversial AIDS researcher Joseph Sonnabend, began urging gay men to avoid unprotected sex as early as 1982 -- and were treated as pariahs by the mainstream gay community. Berkowitz is a fascinating, prickly, decidedly unsaintly character, and Wein's film provides a slice of traumatic sexual history that's all but invisible to younger generations.
 Weekend Chart Record
| Date | Rank | | Gross | % Change | Theaters | Per Theater | Total Gross | Days |
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| 6/12/2009 |
89 |
 |
$3,408 |
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1 |
$3,408 |
$3,408 |
3 |
| 6/19/2009 |
82 |
|
$3,711 |
+8.89% |
1 |
$3,711 |
$9,315 |
10 |
| 6/26/2009 |
119 |
 |
$104 |
-97.20% |
1 |
$104 |
$10,472 |
17 |
| 7/3/2009 |
99 |
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$330 |
+217.31% |
1 |
$330 |
$10,895 |
24 |
| 7/10/2009 |
109 |
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$176 |
-46.67% |
1 |
$176 |
$11,504 |
31 |
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