Hard times forced Karen, a former journalist, and Barry, a former special visual effects engineer who worked on Stanley Kubrick’s 2001, to think fast, so they took over Circus of Books, which became a queer cultural institution. And now thanks to their daughter, filmmaker, and artist Rachel Mason, her parents’ story is a Netflix documentary.įor the couple, however, selling and producing gay porn was just business as usual. But for over 35 years, they owned a bookstore that sold videos like “Confessions of a Two Dick Slut” and “Meat Me at the Fair” in West Hollywood. Gay porn is not what straight, religious-conservative married couple Barry and Karen Mason thought they’d become known for. By Chris Azzopardi | Photo courtesy Netflix
