Triga Films is a UK film company specialising in gay
porn
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chav
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scally, "straight lad" and working class gay films, the company started in 1997 with the release of its first film entitled ''Skinhead'', a mildly erotic documentary about the British
skinhead
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phenomenon and its links to
gay
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While scant usage referring to male homosexuality dates to the late ...
working class culture
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gay skinheads. The company also made a lesbian release entitled ''Dolly Birds'' in 1999, before specialising entirely in gay male products.
As the company has evolved, the narrative of their films has centred on many typical working-class professions such as construction workers, "
white-van-men", removal men and those in uniform, whilst others have featured story-lines which portray a world set around '
hooligans
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gangster
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s and disenfranchised urban unemployed men.
As well as winning and being nominated for a number of industry awards and accolades from the
LGBT media, such as
Gay Times
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, and the
Prowler Porn Awards, Triga has become one of the most prolific gay studios in the UK, with several releases every year. Under the direction of Triga, in 2014 the studio gave birth to a new production team in the guise of
SkinBoss Films produced by adult star Daniel Walton.
References
External links
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Triga Films(Blog)
Pornography in the United Kingdom
Film production companies of the United Kingdom
Gay pornographic film studios
Gay working-class culture
1997 establishments in the United Kingdom
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