Tim Kincaid

Tim Kincaid (born July 2, 1944) is an American film director, film writer and film producer often credited as Joe Gage or Mac Larson.

Biographical note

Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised on Catalina Island, Kincaid wrote and directed an influential trilogy of gay films, collectively referred to as either “The Kansas City Trilogy” or “The Working Man Trilogy” in the late 1970s under the name “Joe Gage.” The films, Kansas City Trucking Co., El Paso Wrecking Corp. and L.A. Tool & Die, were praised for their consistent portrayals of male/male sex occurring between rugged, masculine men who came from blue-collar and rural backgrounds and who related as "equal partners"—avoiding the frequent stereotypes of such men as effeminate inhabitants of urban gay neighborhoods, or who were caught up in a constraining "you play the woman, I’ll be the man" mindset of dominant/submissive roles. While the sex was sometimes rough and occurred in disreputable venues such as truck-station restrooms, the characters in the Gage films often displayed bonds of male camaraderie that went beyond fleeting sexual intercourse, and that more or less entirely ignored the boundaries of "homosexual" and "heterosexual" social identity.