Through the 1980s and 90s, gay porn cinemas were an integral facet of the Paris gay scene. They were places of erotic fantasy and sexual reality, of refuge and fulfilment. Le Far West epitomises all those lost saloons of desire: outposts, as in the far west itself, of lonesome cowboys and the shoot-outs of their desires. Published, for the first time, in this strictly limited edition, Le Far West, which was written by John Roman Baker as a testimony to what he experienced and saw while living in Paris in 1988, mixes fact and fiction to create a startling and vivid impression of the time.