Hollywood — Marking a shocking transformation in American culture, “300″ this weekend became the first ever soft-core gay porn movie to gross over $70 million. “With the success of ‘300,’ soft core gay porn has finally thrust itself into the mainstream,†said Don Fanaras, president of the Association for Same-Sex Soft Core.
“300″ is about a group of 300 Spartan warriors who fought to hold off hundreds of thousands of Persian invaders at the Battle of Thermoplae in 480 B.C., while wearing briefs and a cape and nothing else in order to show their muscular, shaved, oiled bodies, often enhanced by digital effects. “I spent years unsuccessfully trying to sell the major studios on financing a movie about oiled, muscular, hairless men wearing briefs,†said director Zack Snyder.
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