Desc: Seed Money: The Chuck Holmes Story: Directed by Michael Stabile. With Jeff Stryker, Steven Scarborough, John Travis, John Waters. Seed Money is the story of Chuck Holmes, a San Francisco pornographer turned philanthropist. Holmes helped shaped and create gay identity in the years after Stonewall, and later became a major contributor to gay advocacy groups like the Human Rights Campaign and the LGBT Victory Fund, only to find later in life that while his money was welcome in philanthropic circles, he sometimes wasn't.