Wakefield Poole is the director of such groundbreaking gay films as Boys in the Sand (1971), Bijou (1972), Moving (1974), and Take One (1977). Wakefield started out as a dancer in the Ballet Russe and later went on to direct and choreograph such Broadway and regional theater shows as No Strings, Do I Hear a Waltz?, and George M. With the unprecedented financial success of Boys in the Sand, Wakefield became a full-time filmmaker. In the mid-1970s, Wakefield co-ran the influential San Francisco art-space/retail store Hot Flash. Alyson Publications published his memoir, Dirty Poole, in 2000. In 2002, Mercury Releasing produced a two-DVD set of The Wakefield Poole Collection, featuring his classic feature-length films as well as rarely seen shorts. An excerpt from Poole's short "Gay Parade San Francisco 1974" appears in That Man: Peter Berlin.