Lured, however, by the men, the mood, and the attitude of the sexually liberated ’70s and ’80s, I stuck with the PinkLabelTV Classics, billed as “vintage adult film from the silver and golden age of porn.” Bressan’s work was a highlight of my trip back in time, but Passing Strangers and Forbidden Letters were just the beginning. Randy Rainbow On His Life, Amazing Career, And Grandmother Robert Adams and Robert Carnagey in “Passing Strangers” Passing Strangers (1974)īressan has the audacity to open Passing Strangers, one of the few sexually explicit gay indies of the ’70s, with a grainy scene of straight sex - revealed to be playing onscreen at a porn theater.