Bijou video5/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Toushin was awarded the “Life Time Achievement Award” from the Gay Adult Industry. In 2007 at the GayVN award show in San Francisco. In 1989 at the Adult Video Awards show in Las Vegas, Toushin received (while he was in prison) the Reuben Sturman Award “For Legal Battles on Behalf of the Adult Industry”. Toushin has written several books: The Puppy Papers, The Destruction of the Moral Fabric of America, Puppy's Tales and The Cock Coloring Book. Bijou Video produces and sells videos and DVDs showing explicit sexual activity between men. In 1985, Images of the World (now the parent company of Bijou Video) was formed to manage Bijou Video, while Festival Theater Corporation operates the Bijou Theater and sex club. Bijou Video was formed in 1978 and has been a leading producer and distributor of gay pornographic films based in Chicago. Starting in 1970, Festival Theater Corporation produced, distributed and exhibited gay and straight films. ![]() In 1975 Steven formed other companies which included a variety of massage parlors and Gay bathhouses in Chicago and a movie theater and sex club known as "Savages" in San Francisco. Shortly thereafter, Festival Theater Corporation grew to eight theaters, two adult bookstores and movie production. ![]() Bijou theater is still in operation to this day. Toushin's theaters were the first theaters to exhibit these films in the Midwest.īased on their success, Toushin opened the Bijou Theater and sex club in 1970 at 1349 Wells Street in Chicago's Old Town district featuring gay pornographic films and a place for gay men to meet and have sexual encounters. In 1970 graphic hardcore pornographic films started to be exhibited to the general public in a few of the major cities. Later, in 1969, Toushin became a partner in the Festival Theater Corporation in Chicago, the parent company of Aardvark, the Festival Theater in Chicago, and the Festival Theater in Indianapolis (located at 5505 East Washington Street), which showed art and documentary type films. Ten months after taking the managing position, Toushin then had his first obscenity arrest. He enjoyed the city so much he stayed beyond his initially planned six-month period. There, he obtained employment at the Aardvark Theater, an experimental avant-garde theater in Piper’s Alley. Toushin, originally of Brooklyn, New York, and now the company’s president, was passing through Chicago in the summer of 1968 and planned to stay for six months. ![]()
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