This fashion shorts was produced exclusively for KALTBLUT Magazine in Berlin by director Daniel Lathwesen and combines fashion aesthetics with a dark cinematic reference.

Inspired by Sid Davis's so-called "educational film" about the dangers of predatory homosexuals—a work that exaggerated and distorted the strict moral order prevalent in the 1960s—the piece approaches the topic with a playful wink and the question: were you really serious?

The 1961 original is reimagined here to question and comment on the rigid views of society at the time. Sid Davis's infamous film portrays homosexuality as a "disease" and criminal behavior. It falsely claims that homosexuals inevitably and fundamentally molest children and teenagers.

His film "Boys Beware" (1961) is cited by historians and LGBT activists as one of the most damaging examples of the pathologization of homosexuality. Equating homosexuality with pedophilia and mental illness, it helped to cement the image of the "predatory homosexual"... more