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LUCKY NUMBERS focuses primarily on a handful
of young gay male sex workers in New York City.
In their prime and seduced by a lifestyle of instant
gratification, they share an existence defined
by a marriage between sex and the illicit. In
moving to the big city and compelled by a dream
of reinvention, they allow the unfamiliar to take
a lead in informing their lives. The innocence
with which these young men explore newfound notions
of liberty quickly transforms into its own kind
of entrapment. Living in a home rule world,
they become inevitably hardened by the traffic
of their insatiable desires; their newfound dilemma
increasingly fueled by claustrophobia and jilted
intimacy.
The title of the series refers to the flip side
of fortune cookie proverbs found accompanying
the all too common take-out diet. Lucky
numbers are gambling numbers, inscribed as the
optional route to the tried and true wisdom outlined
for the more conventional in nature.
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