The Exorcist (film) shot that obscured his face, as Friedkin felt that Vandis's face would be connected with his previous role in the Woody Allen film "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)". Vandis had previously played Milos Stavros, an Armenian shepherd who was in love with a sheep. Warners had approached Arthur Penn, Stanley Kubrick, and Mike Nichols, to direct, all of whom turned the project down. Originally Mark Rydell was hired to direct, but William Peter Blatty insisted on Friedkin instead, because he wanted his film to have the same energy as Friedkin's previous film,
LGBT themes in comics 1971 stands out for attacking the homophobia of David Reuben's sex manual "Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex* (*But Were Afraid to Ask)", featuring explicit mutual gay sex acts, and promoting gay liberation. Eventually comics appeared aimed at a gay audience: the first documented example of a widely circulated underground gay comic was "Gay Heart Throbs", which produced several issues in the mid-1970s, but struggled to find an audience. Notable publications included "Gay Comix", which was created in 1980 by Howard Cruse, featured the work of LGBT artists, and had close ties with the gay liberation movement. Much