‘the go-go boy tapes’
The ‘Forrest Gump’ of punk meets a nightmarish take on ‘Inside Out’.
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The Forrest Gump of punk meets a nightmarish Inside Out.
Sean Pierce escaped the shadow of predatory priests in Delaware, survived the birth of hardcore punk as a teenage skinhead, and fell into meth dealing just to break free. Go Go Boy Tapes drags you from the “First State” through New York City’s last decade of decadence—before cell phones and high-speed internet—granting VIP access to a lost world through Sean’s chest of forgotten tapes: raw, unfiltered relics of nights that should never have been remembered, where survival meant constant reinvention.
From hustling as a male dominatrix to ruling the ’90s underground, Sean exploded as the fire-breathing co-frontman of the legendary Toilet Boys. Along the way, he found love with a Lunachick, hosted TV shows, and navigated fame, infamy, and heartbreak in a world already burning. His psych ward confinements—each more surreal and terrifying than the last—play like sequels in a horror franchise, mirroring the madness he both survived and unleashed.
Amid today’s headlines that demonize the queer and trans community as “dangerous,” Go Go Boy Tapes exposes the real monsters hiding in plain sight—the institutions that protected systemic predators while punishing survivors for daring to exist loudly. The film reframes survival as resistance, defiance, and ultimately, art.
Now an Emmy-nominated and award-winning animator, Sean transforms a lifetime of trauma and triumph into a raw, unflinching cry for justice in a culture still terrified of those who live untamed and unapologetically. Featuring a star-studded cast and a genre-defying DIY aesthetic, this is a movie decades in the making—and one that couldn’t be more urgent today.
