“Have you ever wondered about truckers… or about how men get it on… with each other?” asks the trailer for KANSAS CITY TRUCKING CO., Joe Gage’s 1976 story of a straight trucker whose consciousness is raised on his first cross-country haul to Los Angeles. A truly landmark film, KANSAS CITY TRUCKING CO. had a seismic impact on gay male visual and sexual culture, establishing a new vision of blue collar masculinity virtually overnight — along with a pair of new icons to go with it. Over the course of this episode, we’ll dig into the film’s genesis and genre roots, the exciting audio process known as SurrounduSound; and the promotional blitz that introduced the world to the Gage Men.