Authentic onscreen sex has long been reserved for hard-core porn or the occasional cutting-edge European drama, but almost never comedy. Cameron Mitchell spoke with The Hollywood Reporter's New York film reporter Gregg Goldstein about how he set about how he presents sex as just another a fact of life while chronicling the intersecting lives of straight and gay New Yorkers. John Cameron Mitchell: I wanted to create something through improvisation with the actors and explore sex as a cinematic language in a way that I hadn't seen, where it wasn't trying to be erotic or horrifying or negative or dreary.

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