[1] Having observed the success of Deep Throat, Poole's initial idea was to make a straight-porn movie in which a female fashion model who goes to an anonymous sex club.
But following the Commission on Obscenity and Pornography, set up by President Lyndon B. Johnson and continued by Richard Nixon, he decided to "stay in this small little genre" of gay porn.
"[6] In the mid-1970s Poole, Peter Fisk, and Paul Hatlestad owned an art gallery and gift shop in San Francisco named Hot Flash of America.
A film documentary based on the autobiography, entitled I Always Said Yes: The Many Lives of Wakefield Poole, was directed and produced by Jim Tushinski (director of That Man: Peter Berlin) in 2013.
In December 2013, the home video distribution company Vinegar Syndrome began restoring and releasing Poole's films from the original surviving elements in definitive versions on DVD.
They started with Wakefield Poole's Bible, which had never been available on home video before, and throughout 2014 released fully restored versions of Bijou and Boys in the Sand, followed by a double-feature DVD set including Take One and Moving!