Joe Gage

Tim Kincaid (born 2 July 1944) is an American film director, film writer and film producer often credited as Joe Gage or Mac Larson. Born in Santa Barbara, California, and raised on Catalina Island, Kincaid directed and wrote 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...