HUMP! Film Festival Brought Porn to the People—and Vice Versa

Stills from HUMP! entries Jell-O Fantasies, Dice and Desire, and Pit of Pleasure.

It was the early 2000s, and The Stranger coworkers Brad Steinbacher and Dan Savage floated a NSFW idea at, well, work: Could they put on a homemade porn festival? And publish a call for submissions in the famous alternative newspaper? 

“It was a big ask. Send us a VHS tape that you made—because it was before digital everything—and let us watch it, and then we’re gonna put it on a movie theater screen for a weekend,” Savage says; at the time he was the alt-weekly’s editor in chief. “And you know, your boss or

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