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BoyWiki - Recent changes [en] https://www.boywiki.org/en/Special:RecentChanges Track the most recent changes to the wiki in this feed. en MediaWiki 1.45.4 Sat, 14 Nov 2026 00:29:14 GMT The Genesis Children (film) https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=The_Genesis_Children_(film)&diff=57627&oldid=56632 https://www.boywiki.org/en/index.php?title=The_Genesis_Children_(film)&diff=57627&oldid=56632 <p>Wayback machine link for Swisher article. Someone uploaded it there.</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 20:49, 9 November 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l16">Line 16:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 16:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plot of the film is apparently very much in tune with the 70s mentality, told in a non-linear fashion, with flashbacks and circularity. A group of boys in a boarding school in Rome answer an ad to "perform in a play before God"; a priest takes them to a beach (the Palinuro natural arch and its beach below Salerno)<ref>[https://goo.gl/maps/VRxpYkRHdn93L1zw6 Palinuro Beach on Google Maps]</ref> and abandons them with a crate of food; they run about naked a lot; they crash then burn a Volkswagen minibus in a fit of fury; five dress and go home while three remain naked and stay. The ''Los Angeles Times'' review by Kevin Thomas said, "There's enough earnestness to'' 'The Genesis Children' '' (at the Encore) to allow for the possibility that its makers had something more in mind than an adolescent male nudie. But that is what it becomes by default, so murky is their philosophizing and vague are ..." <ref>Thomas, Kevin. "'The Genesis Children' a Gambol on the Beach". ''Los Angeles Times'', 5 August 1972, p. B5</ref> Filmed in 1970, copyright was registered (for a 91-minute version) on 26 October 1971.<ref name=LOCcard>[https://cdn.loc.gov/service/copyright/hprcatcard/19/71/19/77/GE/NE/RI/-G/EN/EZ/19711977GENERI-GENEZ/CC19711977GENERI-GENEZ.0334.jpg LOC copyright file card]</ref>.</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The plot of the film is apparently very much in tune with the 70s mentality, told in a non-linear fashion, with flashbacks and circularity. A group of boys in a boarding school in Rome answer an ad to "perform in a play before God"; a priest takes them to a beach (the Palinuro natural arch and its beach below Salerno)<ref>[https://goo.gl/maps/VRxpYkRHdn93L1zw6 Palinuro Beach on Google Maps]</ref> and abandons them with a crate of food; they run about naked a lot; they crash then burn a Volkswagen minibus in a fit of fury; five dress and go home while three remain naked and stay. The ''Los Angeles Times'' review by Kevin Thomas said, "There's enough earnestness to'' 'The Genesis Children' '' (at the Encore) to allow for the possibility that its makers had something more in mind than an adolescent male nudie. But that is what it becomes by default, so murky is their philosophizing and vague are ..." <ref>Thomas, Kevin. "'The Genesis Children' a Gambol on the Beach". ''Los Angeles Times'', 5 August 1972, p. B5</ref> Filmed in 1970, copyright was registered (for a 91-minute version) on 26 October 1971.<ref name=LOCcard>[https://cdn.loc.gov/service/copyright/hprcatcard/19/71/19/77/GE/NE/RI/-G/EN/EZ/19711977GENERI-GENEZ/CC19711977GENERI-GENEZ.0334.jpg LOC copyright file card]</ref>.</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The movie opened on Friday, August 2, 1972 at the Encore Theater at Melrose-Van Ness in Hollywood, where it continued until September 10.<ref>[https://latimes.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22The+Genesis+Children%22&dr_year=1972-1972 L.A. Times search at newspapers.com]</ref> The Encore was "repertory house for old 30s-60s movies and foreign films".<ref>[http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1129 Encore] on Cinema Treasures</ref> In 1972, the Metropolitan Community Church, founded to minister to homosexuals, was holding Sunday services at the Encore.<ref>[http://foundersmcc.org/about/about-founders-mcc/history-of-mccla-founders-mcc/ MCC] held services at the Encore.</ref> A long interview with Mr. Byars by Violet Helgy Swisher appeared in the September, 1972 issue of ''After Dark'' magazine.<ref name="Swisher">Swisher, Viola Hegyi. "Generating ''The Genesis Children''". ''After Dark'', September 1972, p. 18. Available <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">media depository</del>, https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www.boywiki</del>.org/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">media</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">File:Generating_Genesis.pdf</del></ref> The magazine's public was closeted homosexuals.<ref>[https://ctvoice.com/2021/03/15/the-fabulous-70s-decade-of-after-dark-magazine/ Rizzo, Frank], "The Fabulous ’70s Decade of After Dark Magazine", ''Connecticut Voice'', March 15, 2021</ref> An ad in alternate newspaper ''Los Angeles Free Press'' announces, "If beauty offends you, do not, '''do not''', see this film - for here are naked young boys on an Italian beach, searching for '''the real meaning of life'''! Rated X. Now playing!"<ref name=Rubine1972>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28039998 Advertisement. "The Genesis Children"] ''Los Angeles Free Press'', Volume 9, issue 422, August 18-28, 1972 P.10</ref></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>The movie opened on Friday, August 2, 1972 at the Encore Theater at Melrose-Van Ness in Hollywood, where it continued until September 10.<ref>[https://latimes.newspapers.com/search/#query=%22The+Genesis+Children%22&dr_year=1972-1972 L.A. Times search at newspapers.com]</ref> The Encore was "repertory house for old 30s-60s movies and foreign films".<ref>[http://cinematreasures.org/theaters/1129 Encore] on Cinema Treasures</ref> In 1972, the Metropolitan Community Church, founded to minister to homosexuals, was holding Sunday services at the Encore.<ref>[http://foundersmcc.org/about/about-founders-mcc/history-of-mccla-founders-mcc/ MCC] held services at the Encore.</ref> A long interview with Mr. Byars by Violet Helgy Swisher appeared in the September, 1972 issue of ''After Dark'' magazine.<ref name="Swisher">Swisher, Viola Hegyi. "Generating ''The Genesis Children''". ''After Dark'', September 1972, p. 18. Available <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">on </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Wayback Machine</ins>, https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">archive</ins>.org/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">details</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">generating-genesis</ins></ref> The magazine's public was closeted homosexuals.<ref>[https://ctvoice.com/2021/03/15/the-fabulous-70s-decade-of-after-dark-magazine/ Rizzo, Frank], "The Fabulous ’70s Decade of After Dark Magazine", ''Connecticut Voice'', March 15, 2021</ref> An ad in alternate newspaper ''Los Angeles Free Press'' announces, "If beauty offends you, do not, '''do not''', see this film - for here are naked young boys on an Italian beach, searching for '''the real meaning of life'''! Rated X. Now playing!"<ref name=Rubine1972>[https://www.jstor.org/stable/community.28039998 Advertisement. "The Genesis Children"] ''Los Angeles Free Press'', Volume 9, issue 422, August 18-28, 1972 P.10</ref></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Controversy ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== Controversy ==</div></td></tr> </table> Mon, 09 Nov 2026 20:49:53 GMT Sneeuwbol https://www.boywiki.org/en/Talk:The_Genesis_Children_(film)