Tarheel Writer - Gay Porn Stars

Gay Porn Stars

Gay Porn Stars
Died? Murdered? Suicide? Selling real estate?
The guys who helped me out of the closet
. . . and kept me there!

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Note: This is a work in progress (117 Stars listed as of 23 January 2026) as I search the Internet to find all the information I can find on these guys. Bookmark and check back often.

A Tribute to those that entertained us through the years

A Little History
For decades, there have been a number of everyday people who stepped up and became stars in the gay porn business; Kurt Marshall, J.W. King, Joey Stephano, Christopher Lance, Brandon Wilde, Leo and Lance, Mike Henson, Cody Foster, Christian Fox and so, so many more. Yes, we admit, that we have enjoyed countless hours watching and re-watching them forever preserved in their pristine youthful bodies, providing us with erotic fantasies and countless times of stroking to the mountain top of physical pleasure. The 70's and 80's brought AIDS and the death of many personal friends and those stars of first 8mm films, then VHS tapes, DVD and finally digital streaming, all of who gave us so much viewing pleasure. The early days were cheeky, cheap and with predictable plots. The evolution of media brought us high definition and the ability to count the number of hairs between the cheeks. My first purchase was an 8mm film that featured an actor by the name of Morgan.
Morgan

Morgan

     He was young, blond, a face full of acne and the teenage voice of a siren. His gravely, youthful voice crying out "oh, please fuck me harder" brought chills down my spine and lightening bolts between my legs.

     WHY am I including this page on my website? Back in the questioning days of just figuring out who I was, it was films by these guys that let me know, yes, I'm gay, definately, absolutely and I want to do what they are doing on the screen like no body's business! So that is why I am including this page. Well, they are still nice to look at, forever preserved in their youthful skin by pictues and video.
     What follows is some of the information I have found and continue to find about former porn stars.

Stars are presented in alphabetical order by first name.

This page previously updated 24 December 2025

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Al Parker

Alan Lambert
Alex Carrington
Alex Maxim

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Bill Eld
Bill Henson
Billy London
Blake Carnage
Blake Mitchell

Brad Chase
Brandon Wilde
Brent Everett
Brett Ford
Brett Mycles
Brian Estevez
Brian Hawks
Buster

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Cameron Fox
Casey Donovan
Casey Jordan
Casey Tanner

Chad Knight
Chris Burns
Chris Ladd
Chris Williams
Christian Fox
Christopher Lance
Cody Foster
Cole Carpenter
Cole Claire
Cory Adams
Cory Monroe
Craven Cox

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Damon Audigier
Danny Bliss

Danny Brown
Danny Cocker
Danny Sommers
David Ashfield
Denis Reed
Dick Masters

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Eric Manchester
Eric Stryker
Erron aka Jeremy Brent

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Fred Halsted

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Grant Fagan

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J.W. King
Jake Corbin
Jamoo

Jeff York
Jeremy Scott
Jesse Koehler
Jim Bentley
Jim Moore
Joey Stefano
Joey Mills

Joey Yale
Jon King
Jon Vincent
Johnny Dawes
Johnny Harden

Johnny Rahm
Johnny Rey
Joshua Berlin

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Kevin Wiles

Kevin Williams
Kip Noll
Kip Tyler
Kristian Brooks
Kurt Marshall
Kyle Carrington
Kyle Ross

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Lance
Lance Evans
Lee Ryder
Leo Ford
Lindon Hawk
Lon Flexx
Lou Cass
Luc Colton
Luke Bender

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Marc Radcliff
Matt Gunther
Matt Ramsey aka Peter North

Mike Green aka Leo Cooper

Mike Henson
Morgan

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Pierre Buisson

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Randy Cochran
Rex Chandler

Ricky Rhodes
Robert Harris
The Rockland Brothers (Hal, Shane & Vince)
Rod Phillips
Ron Pearson
Ryan Morrison
Rydar Hanson

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Scorpio
Scott O'Hara
Scotty Knox
Sergio Canali
Sparky O'Toole
Steve Fox
Steve Henson
Steven Craig

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Tim Kramer
Tim Lowe
TJ Swan

Tom Steele
Tommy Wilde
Tristan Paris

Ty Jones

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William Higgins

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Zac Stevens

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Al Parker (Andrew Robert Okun)

Al Parker (Andrew Robert Okun)
40 years old - complications of AIDS
25 June 1952 (Natick, Massachusetts) - 17 August 1992 (San Francisco, California)
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51 career film credits, 84 total including compulations
Active years in film 1977 - 1990
     When he was a teenager his parents loaned him their brand-new Mustang to attend Woodstock, which they thought was a classical music festival. While at Woodstock, Drew had several homosexual experiences, the most notable in the back of a van, a theme that would be repeated throughout his adult-film career.
     After graduating from high school in Natick, he moved to Los Angeles, where he landed a job operating the film projector booth at 'Hugh Hefner''s Playboy mansion. He was "discovered" by gay-porn producer Rip Colt, who changed his name to Al Parker because it sounded like a man's name. He didn't like at first, but the fan response launched him into his porn career. That career ended up conflicting with his original goal of working in the entertainment industry but he chose to stick to the porn work.
     Parker starred in several of Colt's 8mm shorts.
     Al came out at the ripe age of 22. He had won a contest on the Name That Tune TV show and took a girl he met on the beach to New York with the winnings. Talking about his problems with his sexual preference, she said no problem. She was bisexual and the two of them picked up guys in the Village and entertained themselves. After the trip, he met Steve Taylor on the same beach and they were together until Taylor's death.
     Al studied pre-med then film making. He worked on set building in Hollywood, a skill that he used in his own productions and in art installations he would create.
     In interviews, Parker professed not to understand what his popular sexual appeal was about. He did not like crowds, didn't drink, dance or do drugs. He refused offers to strip for his film premiers and said he would rather talk to his fans fully clothed but it was not because of shyness for being naked.
     Al said that he was inspired to get into porn after visiting Hugh Hefner in his home and seeing how much money was made on magazines. His first nude modeling was for Colt. He offered to work exclusively with Colt Studio in return for 1% of the profits and was turned down so he figured that he could start up his own studio.
     Steve Scott pointed out Al Parker at a party to Tom Desimone and Tom managed to get Al in a film before Scott did. Scott said "Al has it all; his acting's convincing, he's more than capable in the sex scenes, he has never been opposed to doing anything, he's very agreeable, he sets no limitations, and he even shows up for early calls and he lives way down at the beach!"
     After working with Colt Studios, Al started up Surge Studios with Steve Taylor. Following Taylor's sudden death from AIDS, Al's interest in the studio faded. He sold the rights to Surge films and moved from their shared home in Hermosa Beach to San Francisco. With Keith Reiter he started Surge back up.
     Al himself serio-converted and tested positive, following which he made several "safer" porn movies with other HIV-positive actors.
     In a 1996 Manshots interview Ed Wiley said that Al pulled his van up to Ed on Castro Street, opened the side door and jerked himself. Fortunately the straight couple with Ed were not outraged.
     Trivia
     Some time in 1990 or before, Al had his foreskin reconstructed.
     In Oct. 1988, Al appeared on the Phil Donahue show.
     He was raped at knife point when he was fifteen.
     Al attended the first Woodstock concert and is in the crowd on the movie poster for the documentary film.
     In a 1987 interview, he sharply criticized the gay adult film industry's failure to respond to the effect the AIDS crisis was having on its performers. He was one of the first producers to insist that performers use condoms in his movies.
     He worked as a butler at the Playboy Mansion and was also a contestant on "The Dating Game" (1965).
     The professional name taken from a 1950s magazine illustrator.
     Relationships:
     Richard Cole aka Steve Taylor 1975 - 1986
     Justin Cade Dec 1986 - May 1988
     Keith Reiter aka Ivan 1988 - 1992

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Allen Lambert (Allan Dean Wiebe)

Allen Lambert (Allan Dean Wiebe)

Alan Lambert (Allan Dean Wiebe)
25 years old - suicide
20 April 1967 (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada) - 20 December 1992 (Lethbridge, Alberta, Canada)
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21 career film credits, 35 total with compulations
Active years in film 1988 - 1992
     According to his obituary, Alan was married and had a son when he committed suicide at the Saint-Louis Square in downtown Montreal in 1992. He made the cover of Fugues magazine in February of 1992 (gay magazine in Montreal) and committed his act a few months later, leaving behind an elaborate 10-page suicide note explaining his desire to die at the prime of life.
     Alan made twenty-one films between 1989 and 1992 performing mostly as a bottom (including those released after his death). His first film was Brother Trouble. The premise of the film was brothers inherit a haunted house from their uncle and have to live there a year before getting their money from the inheritance. Alan appeares in scene two getting fucked by Hawaiian Chris Dano.
     Allan made fifteen films in 1989 including Bare Bottoms where he gets fucked by the super hung TJ Scott. Warlords was another film, but he was doing the fucking with Carlo Reese. Highway Patrol was another 1989 film where Alan appeared with super stars Tom Steele and Tony Davis. Tom fucks both Alan and Tony.
     William E. Jones made a film about Alan. Finished director Jones, seduced by the image of a man he never knew, set out to make a film about the vanity of contemporary gay culture, trying to understand why this young actor killed himself. He discovered something much deeper.

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Alex Carrington

Alex Carrington
Alive and well, best we can tell
born 1974 in Los Angeles, California
96 career film credits with 178 compulations
     In the world of gay porn, big dicks are king. So it's no surprise that Alex Carrington had a long and successful career in the industry. This dude packed a fine 9 inches of uncut meat into his pants. Alex has brown hair and eyes and stands over 6ft tall. For a time in the 1990s there hardly seemed to be a film he wasn't in. He worked in the industry from 1988 until 2007 as primarily a top, but he did bottom two.
     Rumor has it he was outed and discharged while serving in the Navy (according to Wikiporno)
     Some of his memorable films include 1991's Loaded (Catalina) where he is paired with Peter Gregory. He did alot of work for All Worlds Video including 1993's Private Games, Lost In Vegas (1996) and Boomerang (1997).
     That's about all I could find on Alex. Knew him? Know more about him? Willing to share? Please let me know.

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Alex Maxium (Josh Williams)

Alex Maxium (Josh Williams)
25 years old - suicide
30 November 1989 (unknown) - 3 October 2015 (unknown)
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13* career film credits with 13 compulations
* including on-line episodes
     Very little could be found about Alex/Josh other than a now-unavailable tweet by fellow CollegeDudes performer Sam Northman that he had died. There is no obituary at the FindAGrave Memorial page. A Google search turned up very little. I will keep researching.
     Alex started in the porn business in 2014 and performed exclusively for CollegeDudes.com. Between 2014 and 2015 he performed in thirteen On-Line Episodes. In the Gay Erotic Video Index (GVFI), there are three listings from 1999 which is in error. He would have been ten years old in 1999! I'm pretty su;re he wasn't doing kiddie porn.
     According to the GVFI, Sam Northman (who tweeted about the death) was one of the first, if not the first to have on-camera sex with Alex/Josh. He went on to get fucked by 15 other dudes between 13 March 2014 and 15 January 2025. I could not find any repeat tops.
     That's all I could find on Alex/Josh. Knew him? Know more about him? Willing to share? Please let me know.

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William

William

William "Bill" Eld
41-42 years old - cocaine overdose
1945 (Rochester, New York) - 1987 (Los Angeles, California)
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29 career film credits with 34 compulations
After surviving a rough childhood and youth that was filled with foster homes and living at an orphanage until he was 18, Bill said he enjoyed being the center of attention as an actor. But by the end of the 1970's things were changing in the adult film business and also with Bill as a man. Now into his 30's in the early 1980's, he reportedly preferred living on the east coast to Hollywood. For years there have been suggestions that in his personal life he was a heterosexual straight man, which he preferred to keep personal. While impossible to know the truth, his beginnings in the adult entertainment industry were in straight media (performing live with a woman on stage in San Francisco and then initially in male/female stag loops) and for most of his gay work, his roles were definitely "all male" in terms of activity. According to many sources of information on the Internet, Bill Eld passed away of a cocaine overdose in the mid-1980's, however skeptics point out that no actual date of his death seems to be provided (see FindaGrave information that lists year of birth and death only). Another ending to the Bill Eld story suggests that (being a straight man in his 30's, tired of the business and seeing the horrors of AIDS developing) he quit the business and decided to simply drop out of sight.
One of the saddest cases to come out of Hollywood. Bill Eld was one thing and one thing only, a male pinup who made his living as an Adagio Dancer (slow and stately dancing, often associated with balanced acrobatic balance with counterbalance) in the big clubs of the West Coast such as The Condor and the Pink Pussycat then moved on to Colt to do Eroica movies lived in LA and San Francisco back and forth. With a body of a Greek god, a tool that was obscenely large and a face of an Irish Joe College drenched in youth and a proud symbol of Americana, Bill made his way to the studios who made X rated films in the late 60s. Toby Ross' Reflection of Youth propelled him to super stardom overnight. From here on his use of Cocaine got perniciously worse till no-one would hire him. Moody and difficult he worked in other jobs such as a food inspector ending up as a janitor for the adult theatres around 42nd Street. His teeth gone and his heart stopping beauty fading into a gaunt weird character, he roamed the streets of New York with a shopping cart loaded with all his belongings. Toby Ross helped for a while with money and some places to stay but eventually Bill died alone from the drug of his choice, Cocaine. From $1000 a night to a homeless existence, a heart break. His ashes were scattered somewhere on Hart Island where one million nameless souls are keeping him company. No stone. No grave. Just a memory and some old films and magazines.

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Bill Henson (Douglas Scott Maxon)

Bill Henson (Douglas Scott Maxon)
34 years old - overdose
13 February 1961 (Los Angeles, California) - 20 September 1995 (Riverside, California)
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5 career film credits with 14 compulations
     William Higgins had this to say about Bill: “Very charismatic person. Loved to get fucked. And I would say that of all the people I ever worked with, he’s the only one that really ever had negative repercussions from being in pornography — because he was so famous that everybody recognized him on the street. You know, he married a very rich girl, and it didn’t take long before she found out that he’d done pornography. So he really wanted to get out of the business and go about being the husband of a very rich girl and working for her father. It did cause him a few untoward moments down in Orange County when people would recognize him and come right up to him with his wife. He finally grew a beard, so that people wouldn’t know who he was.
     In the summer of 1983 William Higgins made a little movie to showcase his new discovery Bill Henson. That little movie went on to become one of the best selling adult features of all time, Sailor in the Wild where Bill gets fucked by Brian Thompson. The film stared a huge cast of horny studs, including Buster, Leo Ford, Corey Adams and Rick 13" Donovan. This movie is a tried and true classic!
     Gay porn films are not known for their dialogue but Bill Henson got to deliver most of the most memorable lines in Sailor in the Wild. After Brian Thompson has rimmed Bill, Brian readies his cock to enter Bill's hole. Bill is hesitant though and says 'That's a lot bigger than your tongue'. Such a great scene overall, the whole seduction and chemistry between them was hot.
     At one point in his life, Bill served in the Marine Corps and his headstone designates him as a veteran.

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Billy London (William Arnold Newton)

Billy London (William Arnold Newton)
25 years old - murdered
26 July 1965 (Eau Claire, Wisconsin) - 29 October 1990 (Los Angeles, California)
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10 career film credits (no compulation appearances)
     Newton's gruesome murder is regularly featured in articles listing the most notorious, unsolved Hollywood homicides for decades. His death rocked the close-knit gay community of West Hollywood when pieces of his dismembered body were found in a dumpster.
     Billy was born in Eau Claire, Wisconsin. He attended grade school and junior high school in Eau Claire before moving to Ladysmith, Wisconsin in 1979. Newton and his mother moved to Oklahoma City after Newton's first year of high school in 1980. At the time of his murder, Newton's family told the Leader-Telegram newspaper Newton moved to California in 1984 and was doing makeup and choreography for a company that made music videos. Newton's father, Richard Harriman, told the Leader-Telegram, "[Billy] was a very intelligent young man. He had a lot of things going his way the last year or two. He was just starting to make a life for himself. He was starting to get into something where he was making a good living." But Harriman went on to describe his son as a "restless kid" who was "trying to find himself. He wanted to get out of California for a while". He left home at age 16 and traveled around the United States for three years before settling in Los Angeles in 1985. He received his GED from the L.A. Unified School District in 1989. Billy's friends describe him as somebody who saw himself much more of a poet and an illustrative artist and only did adult material for economic reasons.
     While working at the Hollywood Spa, a gay bathhouse in Los Angeles, Billy met adult film producer David Rey, who helped him land roles in several gay erotic videos. Billy and Rey eventually became lovers and established London-Rey Productions in 1987. Billy began working at London-Rey as a movie producer, make-up artist and set designer under the name Bill E. London. Before going to L.A. he lived in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, with his partner Terry Elliott, where he earned his beautician license. Elliot still resides there. By October 1990, Billy had plans to leave Los Angeles and move to Las Vegas.
     Billy started his porn career appearing in Imperfect Strangers (1987). He went on to get fucked by Tom Brock in Buldge in 1988. That same year he appeared in Sex Drive 2020, where he gets fucked by Chaz Holderman and Head of the Class 1 for Catalina where he gives head to Dean Chasen and Eric Manchester.
     Billy was murdered shortly after completing what would be his last film, The Grip of Passion. He was last seen alive at Rage Nightclub in West Hollywood, the gay epicenter of Los Angeles. Billy's dismembered body was discovered by a transient in a dumpster near Santa Monica Boulevard the following morning. Only Billy's head and feet were discovered in plastic bags, said his father, Richard Harriman. At the time of his murder, LAPD detective Ron Veneman told the Eau Claire Leader-Telegram in Eau Claire, Wisconsin, "We have several leads we're working on but nothing that is solid yet. We have other information we're not at liberty to give out."
     As the 30th anniversary of Newton's unsolved murder approached in 2020, podcasters and New York Times bestselling authors Christopher Rice and Eric Shaw Quinn covered the case on Episode 37 of their podcast "TDPS Presents CHRISTOPHER & ERIC" and established an e-mail address dedicated to tips and information. In Episode 48 of their podcast they were the first to reveal the account of a potential eyewitness who claimed to have been among the last people to see William Newton alive at the night club Rage in West Hollywood.
     In January 2021, the LAPD Homicide Detective in charge of Newton's case contacted Rice and Quinn as a result of their podcasts about the crime. In February 2021, another episode of the podcast aired, with the detective who inherited the case giving an interview. On April 25, 2021, director Rachel Mason appeared on the same podcast, revealing that she was working on a documentary about the case.
     Billy's murder remained unsolved for 32 years until a break in the case identified Darrell Lynn Madden as Newton's murderer. Madden, who now is a transgender woman and goes by the name Daralyn, confessed to the killing, after an amateur sleuth made the connection.
     Darrell Lynn Madden, a former self-proclaimed white supremacist and skinhead who now identifies as an Orthodox Jewish woman named Daralyn Madden, is the suspect, according to WeHo Times.
     “Investigators made the connection to (London’s) murder after Madden pleaded guilty to killing a gay man in in Oklahoma named Steven Domer and another man named Bradley Qualls, who had been Madden’s accomplice in Domer’s murder and had since confessed to abducting, robbing, beating and strangling (London) to death,” WeHo reported.
     Madden and Qualls committed the first murder as part of a gang initiation into the Chaos Squad Skinheads, according to a report from the LA Times. Later, Madden shot and killed Qualls.
     In a recorded confession on the murder of Willian Newton, or Billy London, Madden said she abducted London from Santa Monica Boulevard, and that her and her skinhead friends had seen London walking along the street, targeting him for robbery.
     Madden said she approached London and put her arm around his shoulder and threatened to “beat the crap out of him” and rob him, the LA Times reported. Madden ended up strangling London, matching the coroner’s findings. Madden claims she didn’t dismember London’s body, but she knows who did, but refuses to snitch, WeHo reported.

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Blake Carnage (Patrick James Haley)

Blake Carnage (Patrick James Haley)
24 - overdose
13 September 1992 (New Jersey) - 30 November 2016 (Fort Launderdale, Florida)
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11 career film credits, 11 including compilations
     "Hey Fans! Name is Blake Carnage and I am 19 years old. I love to play soccer and frequenting the beach. I am from Jersey so watch out Snooki! I'm gonna steal your thunder!" ("Snooki" refers to Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi, a reality television personality and cast member of MTV's Jersey Shore)
     Blake got his porn career started with POV Pervs (2011 8teenBoy) where he gets fucked by Josh Benson. 2012 was a busy year for Blake, appearing in eight different films including Go Big or Go Home where the finale scene is Blake getting fucked silly by the hung Michael Lee. Other films of note in 2012 are Twink Vacation Palm Springs Part 1 & Part 2 (Helix) when he fucks the cute Derrick Porter (filmed 27 November 2011, released in 2012) in Part 1 and fucks cuttie Kyler Ash in Part 2 (filmed 18 December 2011, released in 2012). Blake made two films in 2013, both for Next Door Studios, Cream Filled Twink where he flip flop fucks with Randy Dixon (scene filmed in 3 April 2012, released in 2013) and Boys Will Be Boys where he fucks Joey Hard (scene filmed on 15 May 2012, released in 2013).
     That's all I could find about Patrick. Knew him? Know more about him? Let me know!

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Blake Mitchell (Lane Vincent Rogers)

Blake Mitchell (Lane Vincent Rogers)
31 - motorcycle accident
14 August 1994 (Lexington, Kentucky) - 15 December 2025 (Oxnard, California)
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25 career film credits, 47 including compilations
     According to social media, Lane was killed in a motorcycle accident while visiting friends near Los Angeles, California.
    According to an adult film industry blog, he collided with a box truck. The fire department arrived shortly after the crash was reported. He was pronounced dead at the scene. An investigation into the crash is ongoing.
    The California Highway Patrol also responded to the crash near the intersection of Hueneme and Raytheon roads after receiving calls around 3:48 p.m., according to a CHP news release. The crash happened in a largely agricultural area just east of the Pacific Coast Highway near the Channel Islands Air National Guard Station about an hour and a half from LA.
    The Ventura County Medical Examiner told People Magazine that Lane died from a blunt force head injury and that his death was ruled accidental.
    The film star made his debut in the adult film world in 2014 and quickly gained a following online. Soon after his death was announced on social media, there was an outpouring of love for the actor by his fellow adult film stars and his friends.
    More to come.

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Brad Chase (William Paul Lawrence Hobbs)

Brad Chase (William Paul Lawrence Hobbs)
29 - suicide by hanging
10 February 1971 (Eminence, Kentucky) - 19 April 2000 (Salem, Indiana)
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11 career film credits, 31 including compilations
     Brad Chase (William Paul Lawrence Hobbs) committed suicide at his home in Salem, Indiana, on April 19, 2000. He was 29 years old. He is survived by his mother and father, a younger sister, and his brother -- gay porn star Kyle Matthews.
     Brad performed in 11 films, including Summertime Blues, his most requested autographed box cover. Other noteable films included Knight Moves for Vivid Man where he fucks Chad Knight in the opening scene (his first film), Bed Tales for HIS Video and Willing to Take It, one of my all-time favorites. In Willing to Take It, Brad fucks Nathan Rocco in the opening scene. That scene in intermixed with scene two, but ends with Nathan on his back wearing white tennis shoes as Brad fucks holding on to his ankles. Brad fucks Kenny Marks in scene four.
     Brad's lean, tanned body was many a viewer's favorite.
     Perhaps the best tribute one can give is his real-life brother, gay porn star Kyle Matthews. Here is what Kyle has to say:
     "There is nothing I cannot tell you about him. He and I were as close as twins. Having a gay biological brother is one thing. Being adult sex stars at the same time was pretty wild. Although in that aspect, I always seemed to get by on his coat tail."
     Kyle wrote an extensive piece about his brother. You can read the entire article here.

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Brandon Wilde

Brandon Wilde (William Anthony Filoromo)
39 years old - murdered
8 November 1957 (Coatesville, Pennsylvania) - 5 March 1996 (Pensacola, Florida)
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31 career film credits, 37 including compilations
     Brandon was discovered dancing at the Follies in New York in 1982 by "Mr. Embinder." He began with magazine modeling. He was in the opening solo scene of "Blonds Do It Best" from 1985. That same year he performed in Hot Splash getting fucked by David Ashfield.
     His body was found by landscapers off Kingsfield Road near Filly Lane in Pensacola, Florida. His housemate, Patrick Ashby Day, was convicted of second-degree murder after a four day trial. Apparently Day argued with Brandon over some items that he believed Brandon had stolen from a foot locker. Brandon died of blunt-force trama to the head. Patrick Day is currently incarcerated in the state of Florida serving a 55 year sentence.
     "I remember seeing Brandon dance at the Follies here in DC, and he seemed so nice and friendly. As usual, he had hours of downtime between performances (shows are 12 noon, 3pm, 6pm, 9pm, and 12 midnight). It was late on a Saturday night, and the club was emptying. He and I had talked about the DC music scene in the front lounge, and he seemed sweet, intelligent, and knowledgeable. I never saw Brandon Wilde ever again. I'm not even sure if he was just visiting DC and had gotten Joe (the manager) to let him strip, or whether he was on tour, or what. He just seemed very nice."
From Tim @ rame.net

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Brent Everett (Dustin Germaine)

Brent Everett (Dustin Germaine)
Alive and well
Born 10 February 1984 (Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan, Canada)
44 career film credits, 57 including compilations
     Brent has been a gay porn performer since 2003, debuting together with his first boyfriend, fellow porn star Chase McKenzie. In 2003, he had also featured in the bareback film Barebacking Across America where he, any then boyfriend Chaase McKenzie apppeared in scene two together where they flip flop fuck. He rose to prominence in 2004, when he starred with Brent Corrigan in Cobra Video’s controversial Schoolboy Crush; which, as it was later found out, was filmed when Corrigan was underage. Brett fucked Brent in scene three and again in scene five (in a threeway with Chase McKenzie).
     He was the centerfold model in the September 2003 issue of Freshmen, and has also modelled for Playguy on several occasions.
     In 2009, Metro Weekly described him as "one of the industry's most popular performers". J. C. Adams included him in his list of 100 most famous porn stars, in his book Gay Porn Heroes (2011), in The Boys Next Door category.
     In 2012, Everett co-starred with Michael Serrato in Killian Wells's music video "STRFKR". It was released through Wells' Inferno Records. Everett said he chose to be in the music video as he liked Wells' work. Killian Wells: “I cast Brent in STRFKR because I think out of all of the gay adult performers, he’s the most relevant,” he explains. “As a powerful star himself, he has encountered his share of guys who want to get in his pants for their own advancement.”
     Everett was named the Best International Pornstar at the Prowler Porn Awards in 2014. He is also a two-time Grabby winner—winning Performer of the Year in 2011.
     In September 2008, Everett announced his marriage to fellow pornographic actor Steve Peña. They were wed in a private ceremony on October 3, 2008 in San Diego, California.
     In 2009, Everett told Metro Weekly that his mother and father were supportive of his career, describing them as "the first two parents to show up ever at a GayVN Awards ceremony".
     Steve and Brent had been in a throuple with Jayson Smith, a popular bartender at Washington D.C.’s JR’s Bar & Grill, and their relationship inspired a romance novel Drunk in Love by Olivia Black. Smith announced his split in March 2016, accusing Peña and Everett of drug use.
     In August 2016, Everett spoke out about his issues with drug addiction. And in November 2017, Peña announced that he and Everett were separating.
     Brett has his own website: BrettEverett.com

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Brett Ford (Todd Michael Rice)

Brett Ford (Todd Michael Rice)
31 years old - complications from AIDS
25 May 1970 (Lexington, Kentucky) - 25 December 2001 (Palm Springs, California)
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66 career film credits, 109 including compilations
     Brett Ford died on Christmas Day of 2001. He was 31. Todd was born in Lexington, Kentucky.
     He made his video debut in 1991, but in 1992 he made an astonishing 19 films and almost single-handedly helped Mack Studios become a (short-lived) powerhouse. Todd had a lithe, hard body and an exceptionally large penis (9in / 23cm) which he used to very great effect in every film he made. He topped and bottomed with equal ease, and seemed to relish his sex work. He made the leap from low-grade Planet Group hack-work to Falcon Studios films immediately -- which was the best testament to his work that can be made. He retired from porn in 1999, after making the film "Flesh and Fantasy 2" for Catalina) and working with the legendary Wash West in "Technical Ecstasy" (Odyssey Men). He moved to Palm Springs in 2001, where in the last few years he had performed at the Rainbow Cactus Bar, the Palm Canyon Theatre and the Top Hat Playhouse.
     He is survived by his companion of five years, Kevin Crawford of Washington, D.C. He was buried on New Year's Eve in the Palm Springs Mausoleum in Cathedral City, California. The family has asked that anyone wishing to honor his memory make a donation to the Desert AIDS Project in Palm Springs, California.

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Brett Mycles (Robert Christopher “Rob” Sager)

Brett Mycles (Robert Christopher “Rob” Sager)
29 years old - congenital heart failure
2 December 1977 (Houston, Texas) - 25 February 2007 (Los Angeles, California)
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7 career film credits, 13 including compilations
     Brett Mycles was a successful muscle and fitness model. He was a featured model for the International Male clothing catalog. As "Brett Mycles" he gained fame as an American male pornographic actor.
     He starred in several pornographic movies and posed in gay porn magazines. He worked in both gay and straight pornography. In a 2005 interview, he said that he recently married his high school sweetheart, whom he first met when he was 19 and she was 17.
     Born in Houston, Texas, he moved to Ohio and then resided in the Los Angeles area. At 22, while in Ohio, he entered an Arnold Classic bodybuilding contest where he was spotted by photographer Irvin Gelb.
     Brett was a "porn star," nude model, nude wrestler, fitness model and personal trainer.
     Apparently (not authenticated by family or any official source), he died in his sleep of congenital heart failure on February 25, 2007. Weeks beforehand, family and friends report that he complained of irregular heart beats and said that his family had a history of heart problems.
     Rob was a fitness model and a body builder for several years. He appeared in several adult films such as "Jackhammer," "Storm Fighter" and "Wrestler for Hire." He has one of the most recognizable bodies in the gay world and has been featured in countless muscle and fitness magazines. He was named Male Fitness Model of the Year in 2002, and again began to pursue a career in bodybuilding. At 6'1" and 200 pounds, his physic became a mainstay in fashion magazines like International Male and also competed at the NCP Aloha Muscle & Fitness Bodybuilding Contest in Hawaii, where he placed 4th. In a 2005 interview Mycles told reporters that he had recently married his high school sweetheart and that he hoped to continue as a fitness model. Never denouncing his time in the adult industry, Rob, as he preferred to be called, said that he hoped to be remembered for his fitness work just as much as he was known for porn.

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Brian Estevez

Brian Estevez
24 years old - unknown cause
20 July 1966 (Brooklyn, New York) - 7 April 1991 (two sources, FamousFix.com and TheClassicPorn.com)
26 career film credits, 41 including compilations
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     If you believe his interview in Manshots magazine in 1991, he was born in Brooklyn in 1966. He grew up there, and joined the U.S. Marine Corps in 1982 when he was 16 years old. As a Marine infantryman (if you can believe that), he spent 1982 to 1985 in California. While in California, he met a man who found "trophy escorts" for rich gay men. The man specialized in recruiting military men who, for $500 a weekend, would be seen with older gay men. There was light kissing, some petting, maybe even masturbation. Estevez -- who claims to be completely, utterly, and without doubt heterosexual -- claims he did this a few times, then stopped.
     He left the Marine Corps in 1985 at the age of 19, and decided to become a fashion model (if you can believe that). "One day, after my car broke down", he says, an older man just happened to pick him up on the road. This man was a scout for gay porn directors John Travis and Matt Sterling, and he induced Estevez to do some half-naked Polaroid shots. Within a week, Estevez was meeting Travis and Sterling. When told to disrobe, Estevez refused -- until they waved fistfuls of cash at him. Sterling decided he was too short and slender (Estevez claims) to top, so he was cast as a bottom. He insisted on no box covers and he refused to do magazine layouts, out of a fear that his family or girlfriend would see him and figure out he was doing gay porn. He says that, toward the end of his career, he decided not to bottom any more.
     He used the name "Mike Raymond" in his first film, Inch By Inch. He used the name "Michael Wayne" and topped in his second film, Spring Training (Falcon), and in his third had sex with men and women (Bi-Sexual Fantasies [Catalina, 1985]), topping men under the name "Brian Estevez" for the first time. It wasn't until his fourth film, The Young and the Hung (Laguna Pacific) that he used the name "Mike Raymond". He used "Michael Wayne" again in Bare Tales (1987; Tyger Films), Best Friends 2 (1987; Elite Male), Looking Good (1988; Le Salon; he's credited as "Michael Way"), and Show It Hard (1988; Filmco).
     Although Estevez is primarily known as a bottom, he wasn't on film. He bottomed exclusively in just four films (Inch By Inch, Powertool, Best Friends 2, In Deep), topped exclusively in 11 films, and was versatile in three (Young and the Hung, Bare Tales, Throb). I can't identify his role in three others films (Manstroke, Men At Work, Mystic Museum), all of which came late in his career (all were 1990). He did straight porn in two bisexual films, and oral-only in one gay film. Estevez said he disliked bottoming, but on film he seemed to enjoy bottoming far more than he did topping.
     Estevez was known for his magnificent handless cumshots. He delivered one in his very first film, and it became something of his trademark. It's extremely rare for a man to have an anal orgasm -- one where being fingered up the ass or fucked, without masturbation, results in orgasm. It's possible, of course, even likely in some men. But on a gay porn set, it's almost unheard of. Faking a handless cumshot is easy, however: Through the magic of cinema, the man masturbates. Just before he is to ejaculate, he gives a shout-out ("I'm cumming!"). He then pulls his hand away, and a few second later delivers his spurts. It doesn't matter if his "hands are held behind his back", or if he's "tied down" or if he's on all fours or on his back. The performer who is good at a handless cumshot is very in tune with his own body, and knows just when to remove his hand and put it in the right position so that it appears he wasn't jacking off at all. The longer he can give the editor between removal of his hand and his cumshot, the more effective the trick will be.
     Estevez was VERY VERY good at timing his handless cumshots. He often gave the editor as many five seconds between taking his hand away and his ejaculation.
     Moreover, Estevez could ejaculate very, very powerfully. He often had six or seven very thick, ropy streams of cum before he began dribbling. And while his first spurt was usually cleared the head by just an inch or so, his second, third, fourth, fifth, and even sixth shots could fly as many as three or four fee through the air. The look on his face as he came was heavenly: He appeared as if he was going to faint, as if he was experiencing pure divine joy, and as if he were in deep pain and distress. (They don't call orgasm "the little death" for nothing.)
     Estevez had the nicest cock. It was a really raw-boned looking dick, about 7 inches long and perfectly straight. He had a well-defined, ruddy knob and some heavy veins along the lower half of his shaft. His prick jutted upward out of a dense, full bush at a 45-degree angle, and his balls were somewhat large and low-hung.
     Estevez admitted to having tricked a few times with gay porn producers while doing adult films, and to having tricked a few times with gay men during his career. It was quite uncommon for adult film stars to engage in prostitution during the 1980s, so for him to have done so was highly unusual. Over time, he came to enjoy, he says, to some degree, sex with a man. He did a lot of personal appearances during his time in adult film, "dancing" nude at a wide range of places for hefty fees.
     From 1985 to 1989, Estevez worked in construction in California, and learned "the entire construction business inside and out". In 1989, Estevez moved to Virginia, and began working for a radio station. He says he sold advertising slots and learned "the entire radio business inside and out", and took public speaking classes. When the station had financial difficulties, he quit.
     Estevez says he likes to sing and can play piano, and in 1991 he intended to go to college and become an actor. He used to fight, do drugs, smoke, and drink, but gave it all up.
     Estevez did five films a year during his six-year career. That's four per year, but it belies his real output. He did four films each in 1985 and 1987, and just two in 1986 -- the stunning Powertool (his scene at the end is fairly bland) and The Best of Times. In 1988, however, he did a whopping 10 films, almost all of which are forgettable. After taking 1989 off, he did four more forgettable films in 1990.
     1991 was supposed to be his "comeback year". But nothing ever came of it. Estevez was done with adult film at the age of 24. He'd been doing gay porn since the age of 19.
     No one has seen or heard of him since.
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     It's difficult to accept much of what Estevez told Manshots. When he speaks on film, and that's rare, you can easily hear the Brooklyn accent in his voice.
     Yet, the Marines have never accepted 16-year-olds as enlistees, and quite frankly Estevez's body looks like it had never seen a hard day's work -- much less Marine boot camp. His acne-scarred, over-shiny face doesn't seem the type that fashion industry executives usually hire.
     One highly doubts that he worked in construction for four years in California. Construction companies don't usually let you off work so you can spend a four-day weekend dancing naked in front of other men. And even if he did work construction, one doubts he had enough information to establish his own construction company (as he claimed).
     One highly doubts that he learned "the radio business inside and out" in a single year, nor that a radio station would hire a 23-year-old kid without a high school diploma. Much less hire a kid who could not account for his previous four years. (Most employers will question what "entertainer/dancer" means on your resume.)
     What seems more likely -- and I say "seems", because one really doesn't know -- is that Brian Estevez was a bi-questioning kid from Brooklyn who graduated from high school, moved to California, and sought work in the gay adult film industry. He did very well in it, and became a demi-god. From 1985 to 1987, he was one of the best-known adult film performers around. Everyone knew him as that blond-ish kid with the crystal blue eyes, shiny face, full bush, raging hard prick, and sweet handless cumshot who loved to be fucked up his furry tight ass.
     People were shocked when Estevez took mega-hung twink Tony Marino's 9-incher up his ass in Powertool. Sure, Marino couldn't get his monstrous, obscene member fully erect. But he got close enough to plower Estevez. And then a year later, Estevez was taking the 9-inch ass-breaker of Mark Jennings up his ass as well. Sure, Jennings was the poster-boy for Viagra and was more flaccid than erect in 80 percent of his work. But he got hard enough to fuck Estevez up the ass.
     Most men would never have even tried to take Marino or Jennings. But Estevez, despite his protestations of heterosexuality, did.
     And he did it condomless.
     I miss him. I miss his big, raw cock. I miss his handless, powerful cumshots. I miss that full bush, and that furry hole. I miss his dyed, mousse-stiffened hair. I miss those eyes. I miss that incredible cocksucking skill. I miss his eagerness.
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Brian Hawks

Brian Hawks
rumoured to have died in a automobile accident
27 November 1959 (San Gabriel, California) - 27 September 1991 (unknown)
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14 career film credits, 27 including compilations
     Brian Hawks is proof you don't need to be prolific or spend a lifetime doing something in order to leave a huge impact on an industry. He only appeared in fourteen films, yet... Google vintage porn? And his image is guaranteed to pop up.
     Plus, there's a film by Matt Sterling, The Bigger the Better, which contains a scene (Brian is credited in this scene as Shawn McIvan), in a public mens room, that is considered so classic by so many, that it's still talked about today.
     There are certain images of his which remain iconic. And he, like Kip Noll, was able to create an actual brand based on his name - one put to good use by the industry via film and print media.
     Born on November 27, 1959 and raised in San Gabriel, CA, Brian Hawks spent a sheltered childhood attending a Catholic military school. Post high school, he began a relationship with a man involved in the gay porn industry. Initially, Hawks decided to dip his toe into the world of gay porn as a means of building his self-confidence. Adopting the alias, 'Angel Damien', it all began with a black and white photo layout for Bob Mizer's AMG (Athletic Model Guild). All his life, Hawks wanted to be known and noticed. His greatest desire was to be in movies and draw attention to himself.
     He made his film debut in 1982's California Boys, billed as 'David Anders' alongside J.W. King and Ed Wiley. Hawks recalls that he didn't have to audition - he simply dropped his drawers and the filmmakers said, "Wonderful." That same year he would work with famed gay porn director William Higgins in Printer's Devils a film that starred Jon King, Michael Christopher and Derrick Stanton. Hawk was billed as 'Charles Michael Jourdan'.
     It was the next film, Nova's first full-sound sync'd feature: Lockerroom Fever that began the creation of Brian Hawkes as a brand. Spliced together using three of the studio's film shorts, the movie actually became something of a sensation in a different media form: as a magazine.
     A collection of stills from the short Jocking Around starring Billy Joel Evans (David Ashfield), Steve Decker and Hawks, combined with photos from others, turned out to be as popular and inescapable as Kip Noll's first print pictorial. The magazine helped make Tige McMasters, Brian Hawkes and Billy Joe Evans (David Ashfield) gay household names.
     Lockerroom Fever proved so popular, that Nova went all in the following year and created Brian's Boys, centered on the brand Hawks had inadvertently generated the previous year. The film was also hugely successful - in the theatres, yes, but even more so in the printed form. This wealth of attention generated a slew of film offers and 1984 would prove to be Hawks most prolific year.
     Surprisingly... it would also prove to be his last.
     By the end of 1984, Hawks had grown disillusioned with the world of gay porn. In an April 1985 interview with Stallion magazine, conducted while Hawks was performing at the famed Follies Theater in New York City, he expressed his frustration with the porn industry at length. "Most of the people in the business, the people who pay the boys, are fuck-overs. They take as much as they can while giving as little as possible. This whole business is a big bunch of lies!"
     He also complained about the trend toward plotless, all-action films. "I'd like to see more loving, hugging, and cuddling. There should be plenty of sex, of course, but I don't like my movies too blatant. I like plots and romance and happy endings - or, at least, endings that make sense. Nobody's going to keep paying... to see the same old stuff over and over - the producers better start giving us a little fun and romance."
     At the same time, he said he did enjoy being someone that people admired. It turned him on that guys were jerking off while watching him and that, at heart, he was a people pleaser. He claimed that part of his appeal, in addition to his physical attributes, was that he played to the camera well and strived "to be better than everybody else. I want to be the best!"
     It was also his desire to pursue a "legitimate acting career."
     In the interview, Hawks mentioned that he had an opportunity to act on stage, in a production Torch Song Trilogy. However, the man he was seeing at the time was very controlling and didn't want him to do it, forcing him to choose which was more important - their relationship or the role?
     Hawks chose the relationship.
     Around this time, Hawks began dating fellow porn star Lance. Reportedly, the two enjoyed spending their free time going to the beach and having fun. Hawks was quite the daredevil, stating, "I'm very obstinate! I'm stubborn, and I want to do what I want to do. No one - no one - is going to tell me how to live my life! I want to get it all in. You only life once... Sky diving, water skiing, travel - all. I want it all!"
     This daring attitude was also visited upon his body. Hawks got tattooed; a heart that was symbolic of his "being kind" and "having a lot of feeling towards people" and a Playboy bunny. Both, located near his pubic region, he liked "... to joke that I'm a playboy with a heart-on."
     But the question remains... what became of Brian Hawks?
     Unsubstantiated rumors abound, the most popular being that he died in a car accident during the mid-80's. However, given his propensity for wanting to please those with whom he was in a relationship, I have a feeling that the truth is more akin to something I stumbled upon on an LSGP forum. A post dated November 10, 2006, by FuzzyKen - someone who apparently befriended and knew a number of gay porn stars from this era, including Ed Wiley and Al Parker), stated:
     "Brian Hawkes... was the neighbor kid of a good friend of mine (who) grew up in the San Gabriel Valley in Southern California. Contrary to many rumors, Brian is not really deceased. He found true love and tried to retire from a business that wanted him to remain... very badly. I will not reveal his real name for this reason."
     The 'little blonde twinky boy' (he portrayed) was a porn studio creation which he grew to despise. He absolutely grew to hate the business and the risks he was being asked to take. Brian simply got out. He finally had telephone calls forwarded to his mother who informed people that he had died of complications of HIV. These days he looks nothing like the actor of so many years ago."
     So, it is most likely that Hawks simply wanted to put distance between himself and an industry with which he fell out of love.
     And, it would also appear, that true love, once again, won out.

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Buster (Jeffrey Wayne Cole)

Buster (Jeffrey Wayne Cole)
34 years old - complications from AIDS
23 August 1956 (South Hill, Virginia) - 10 May 1991 (West Hollywood, California)
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16 career film credits, 40 including compilations
     Jeffrey, born in South Hill, Virginia, on finishing high school at Lackland Air Force Base in San Antonio, Texas (his father was career military), he joined the Marines for three years.
     Larry Ginsberg (known as director Mark Reynolds) met Buster by going to Oceanside every weekend to pick up Marines. Buster (at 21) was boyfriend to Richard Moore (at 30) lived in Harry Weiss's place in LA. They were often at the Palm Springs compound. Buster had been with Harry for about a year. Buster was working for Harry as a property manager but in reality Buster and Richard's function was to find and procure boys for Harry and his friends. As for production staff fucking with performers, that, for the most part, is what those guys were like. There were a few exceptions like Jerry Douglas but in the 80's it was based in drugs and sex. That was true through the 90's. As time went on it was still there but not as up front.
     Buster did one film for Falcon (Night Flight) before doing two for Mark Reynolds. The name Buster was given by Reynolds to the other performer in Buster and Billy but the names got mixed up and stuck that way.
     Buster was an intelligent fun guy to be around. As time went on, drugs and alcohol took it's toll. Harry and Buster parted ways and Buster then was being taken care of by a guy named Richie Silverman who cleaned him up. He was living at Richie's house when he ran for the city council in West Hollywood in 1986, having admitted that his “acting career” might pose a campaign issue. Cole initially said the films he appeared in were R-rated, but then conceded, "Maybe some of them were X-rated. Anyway, I'm not making them any more."
     He died in a Hospice in 1991 basically alone with only his family and Richie and a "boyfriend" visiting him. All those that used him along the way were nowhere to be found. After he died the Marines agreed to bury him but before that happened they found out he was gay and refused burial. He is buried in an unmarked grave in Oceanside.
     The family went to get his belongings mostly pictures and some art he made only to find his apartment had been cleaned out by the "boyfriend". The family never had the money to buy a gravestone. In a depressing irony his mother passed away from Covid c2021. He used to take her to parties all over Hollywood with the stars. She never really recovered from his death. His father disowned him when he found out he was gay and was not in his life after that. Those that are left don't want to talk about the old days.

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Cameron Fox (Shane Eugene Davis)

Cameron Fox (Shane Eugene Davis)
36 years old - complications from AIDS
28 November 1977 (Dallas, Texas) - 12 June 2014 (Oklahoma City, Oklahoma)
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47 career film credits, 80 including compilations
     Everybody loved Cameron. He was the guy that simply let his work speak for himself. He didn’t want adult fame, he just wanted to give a great performance. His fast-pounding performances were loved by fans and often praised by critics. In 2001 Cameron won an AVN Best Group Scene award for his participation in Falcon’s Out of Athens (A Jevic Favorite). On screen Cameron is versatile although much of his work has been as a top. He is best recognized for his brunette features and of course his bigger than average nine inch cock.
     Some of Cameron's notable performances (in Jevic's personal opinion) include No Way Out (another of Jevic's favorites) where he fucks super cute 22 year old Jeremy Jordan in a gazebo in a blazing hot scene. Pornstruck 8 was a 2004 release that has Cameron fucking Park Wiley.
     Tall Tales (Stryker Productions) is one of the last films Cameron made and received mixed reviews. "Fox's tales, though, despite being touted as such, are nothing out of the ordinary. This almost adds to the bizarre and misguided charm of this film, though. In reality, what totally kills this premise is the fact that Fox, an amazing and enthusiastic sex performer, has no speech skills to speak of, and I have a feeling that a pack of yipping canine robots would offer more eloquence than any of his stuttered and slurred attempts at storytelling. That being said, there is no denying the power of Fox in full fuck mode, as two scenes attest to, and it is pure pud whacking pleasure to watch him go at it in a glorious frenzy." LOL! What a review!
     Cameron left the industry in 2006 after appearing in close to fifty films for the industries leading studios. He is still one of the most requested stars in the industry and his movies continue to be among the most watched.
     Cameron’s personal quote was: “It’s good to be able to do things with other fellas and get great cash. I didn’t have to go to school to learn how to bring lust on the screen. It’s all a matter of doing it, ’cause I choose to”.

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Casey Donovan (John Calvin Culver)

Casey Donovan (John Calvin Culver)
43 - complications of AIDS
2 November 1943 (East Bloomfield, New York) - 10 August 1987 (Inverness, Florida)
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27 career film credits, 46 including compilations
     See Boy in the Sand: Casey Donovan, All-American Sex Star by Roger Edmonson; 1998 Alyson Books. Edmonson's biography describes him as a gentleman who was always well dressed, always upbeat, able to ingratiate himself with anybody, anywhere in the world, a well educated devotee of culture and the arts, a sexual virtuoso, extremely promiscuous, unappologetically gay and the first gay porn star. John had wanted to have a legit career and did appear in some off broadway productions but this was aborted by the porn films and hustling he did to make ends meet and his unwillingness to hide his sexuality. Some of his co-actors said his acting was okay but unvarying from performance to performance.
     Casey Donovan appeared in several noteable films including The Other Side of Aspen (1978 Falcon Studios) where he is paired with the hunky Al Parker. Next came L.A. Tool & Die (1979 Joe Gage Films) where he was fucked by Derrick Stanton. He went on to perform in 27 films, ending his porn career in 1988 with Early House (Zeus Studios). He and Scott Answer made a "home movie" at Early House, a guest house in Key West. Proceeds from the video went to AIDS research in Casey Donovan's name from Zeus Studios & Publications.
     A note in Mandate in 1979 said that he had bought a guest house in Key West that he called Casa Donovan. Michael Kearns says that John was the highest paid hustler in NYC at the time he performed in Tubstrip in 1974, but an appointment with actor Tom Tyron led to a romantic affair.
     For most of his career Casey had no tattoo but towards the end he had a small one on his hip that his S/M master placed there.
     He was briefly a mainstream actor, who appeared on stage, as well as a theatre producer and manager, and appeared as himself in TV series Emerald City. John appeared in non-porn films: Score (1972), Ginger (1971), play: The 1970 Gerry Raad Play Circle in Water.

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Casey Jordan (Kyle Neven) circa 1988

Casey Jordan (Kyle Neven) circa 1988

Casey Jordan (Kyle Neven) circa 2018

Casey Jordan (Kyle Neven) circa 2018
Casey Jordan (Kyle Neven)
50 - accidential drowning (bathtub)
10 February 1968 (Gainsville, Florida) - 9 October 2018 (West Hollywood, California
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24 career film credits, 50 including compilations
     Fitness Professional and West Hollywood resident Kyle Neven, died earlier this month. The former gay porn star known to many as Casey Jordan, was found dead in his home. Someone close to him alleges that he died of drowning.
     “About a week ago, our beloved friend Kyle Neven died,” writer Tiffany Willis Clark posted on her Facebook page on October 13, 2018. “His partner of 17 years came home on Tuesday and found him. We’ve not spoken of it on social media before today because the family specifically requested that everyone wait until today. Thank you to everyone who respected Kyle’s family’s wishes.”
     “I won’t bother being mysterious,” Clark added. “Kyle would not have been, and I don’t want to feed any rumors that may be out there. As far as we know at this time, his cause of death was drowning (bathtub). We don’t know yet what else contributed to his death and the family is awaiting the autopsy report. I can tell you that I talked to him Friday night (a day or two before he died) and I’ve seldom heard him happier and more upbeat. He had some big accomplishments last week and was talking of the future, including vacations, family plans, and another trip here to spend time with my family. Rumors that are floating around suggesting he committed suicide because he was depressed about a Facebook ban are incorrect (and stupid). Kyle famously loved social media, but he had an incredibly full and active life outside of Facebook.”
     Kyle Neven had an active life indeed. Four years ago, he went on Blog Talk Radio to talk about his life as an athlete, competing in gymnastics and Springboard Diving from the age of 5. He was the original cast member of the first nationally televised fitness program Body Electric at age 16. He was one of the first Step Reebok Instructors, back when it was called “Bench Class”. He personal trained many top professional athletes in the New York Yankees, Cleveland Browns, Florida Gators and Sydney Swans Rugby team. He created “Gyromania” – a revolutionary 3-dimensional Gyrokinetic cardio/sculpt class utilizing a weighted hula-hoop and has invented his own hoop, “The Power Hoop”.
     He was the owner of Neven Fitness. Longtime West Hollywood residents who date back to the 90s may remember taking his step classes at the Sports Connection in the early to mid 90s.
     Neven produced and starred in the movie Naked Fame, alongside Colton Ford, Chi Chi LaRue, and Donna Mears. Naked Fame is about former Colt model and porn star Ford who left the skin flick business at 40 to return to a musical career along with his partner Blake Harper.
     He also had numerous appearances on TV, including Good Morning America, Extra, Fit TV and was the on-camera trainer for Ballroom Bootcamp on TLC. He has also been featured in People, Angeleno, Fitness, Fit, TV Guide, Self, and Shape magazines.
     However, he is known to most for his gay adult film persona, Casey Jordan, circa 1988. He appeared in films for Falcon Studios like “Out of Bounds”, “Perfect Summer” and “Spokes II” before taking a break.
     He returned to porn in 1994-95, appearing in other Falcon Studios titles like “New Pledgemaster” and “The Backroom”. He was in and out of the porn industry until 2011.
     Neven is also remembered and admired by many for being an outspoken and a staunch critic of the Trump Administration. He referred to himself as Kyle (Buttonpusher) Neven, and was constantly getting kicked off of Facebook for some of his heated posts.

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Casey Tanner (Slade Michael Ferris)

Casey Tanner (Slade Michael Ferris)
28 years old - natural causes
14 July 1994 (Zanesville, Ohio) - 14 April 2023 (San Diego, California)
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20 career film credits, 21 including compilations
     Slade passed away peacefully on Friday 14 April 2023 with his family by his side. Slade made home anywhere he landed and enjoyed doing life his way. Slade had an infectious smile and charisma that could take over a room. He was loved and adored by anyone that he met. He lived comfortable in his own skin and loved living in Hillcrest. Slade made his living young, he dabbled in many things and enjoyed being a stay at home dad to his precious pup Darlah.
     While the exact details of his death are not known, Liam Riley and Lane Rogers (aka Blake Mitchell), both friends and former partners of Casey, confirmed the news on Twitter.
     His boyfriend, took to the comment section of Str8UpGayPorn to say,
     “I would like to inform you all that his death was not due to any overdose situation. He had health problems that for many years had been progressing. The combination of multiple failed organs, and contracting pneumonia for about the last month of his life, I assure you he passed comfortably in hospice care."
     “It is unreal the amount of love and outreach we have had, and im sure all can understand how it is challenging to get back to every message.”
     Casey Tanner began his career in the adult film industry in 2013 and worked primarily with Helix studios. He collaborated with notable performers such as Calvin Banks, Max Carter, Grayson Lange, and Blake Mitchell, and many others. Casey retired from the industry around 2017 to relocate to San Diego and be with his partner. In addition to his work at Helix, he filmed three scenes for Icon Male in 2014 alongside Adam Russo, Ty Roderick, and Connor Maguire.

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Chad Douglas (Martin Raymond Cox)

Chad Douglas (Martin Raymond Cox)
42 years old - complications of AIDS
4 February 1957 (Winston-Salem, North Carolina) - 11 October 1999 (Clayton, Georgia)
Note: He was buried in Silverbrook Cemetary in Anderson, South Carolina
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11 career film credits, 36 including compilations
     Masculine, mustachioed, hairy-chested, tattooed, handsome, and probably in his 30s when he was making porn, he tended to play domineering daddy-type roles in his videos, usually having his way with one of two of the young, wispy blonds who were the standard fixtures of gay porn at the time. His most distinguishing feature was a very large, very thick penis. He was an exclusive "top" in every one of his films, and may never have even so much as sucked another penis on film. To the contrary of the butch Papi he played in his porn films, amongst those who knew him personally, he had a reputation for being a talented bottom who could and would easily sit on dildos equal or greater in stature than his own enormous penis. It might surprise some to know that he was also very adept with a pair of shears and sitting for a haircut with Chad Douglas was always entertaining. The brisk snip, snip, snip of his scissors accentuated the sarcastic, caustic tales he would tell of the never ending trail of men that were continuously trying to "get in his calzoncillos".
     The late Scott O'Hara recounted an amusing story about Chad Douglas in his book "Autopornography". It seems that Chad wasn't by nature a tough guy. Before the production of Chad's first video "Below The Belt", Chris Burns (the ultimate kinky bottom) spent hours carefully coaching Chad in how to speak and act like an aggressive topman.
     Chad came along just as gay porn transitioned from movies shot on film and played in XXX theaters to movies shot on video for the home market. He also made all of his videos before condom usage became the standard, so all of his work is condom-less. Many of Douglas' videos were made by Falcon Studios, then and now the gold standard for "vanilla" gay porn with good-to-excellent production values. However, Douglas' performances were anything but vanilla. He was an athletic performer -- placing his partners in every conceivable position, including holding them in the air, during intercourse. He vigorously and relentlessly dominated his partners. Douglas played the perfect leather top clone stereotype in "Spokes II" and "Springbreak," where he has a famous scene with Cory Monroe. Chad has another infamous workout scene with Kevin Williams in "In Your Wildest Dreams" filmed in 1987.
     He only made 11 films between 1985 and 1994, but most of them are classics.
     A quick side note. Back when Jeff and I were early in our relationship, we went to Washington, DC to see the AIDS Quilt on full display on the National Mall. I remember seeing Chad Douglas' quilt. It struck me then how precious life truly is.

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Chad Knight

Chad Knight
Alive and well, best we can tell
Born 24 October 1970 (Sacramento, California)
84 career film credits, 151 including compilations
     Chad Knight was active in the adult film business throughout the 1990s. Between 1991 and 2004, he starred in 84 original films. About half of these films were produced in the first two years of his career. He predominantly starred in gay films, and performed in several bisexual productions. Chad Knight considered himself a versatile bisexual performer who preferred to top, but was best known for his work as a bottom.
     Chad Knight entered the gay porn industry at the age of 18. He had befriended Jason Hunter, a "straight" gay porn star, who acknowledged he'd been doing gay features and introduced the idea to Chad Knight.
     His first filming experience was Falcon's 1991 Compulsion: He's Gotta Have It! with co-star Scott Hogan. He claims this was his first gay sexual encounter. He did 17 pictures that year and his first bisexual film, Big Switch 3: Bachelor Party. In 1992, he completed an additional 20 films while working for a variety of studios including Catalina, Falcon, All Worlds, HIS Video, Vivid and Huge Video.
     He was largely absent on the scene in 1993, but returned in 1994, making 10 films. Over the next three years, Knight withdrew from the adult film industry. In 1995, he abandoned bisexual films because of the strains it put on his marriage. In 1996, he did six films, including a bondage film, Trained to Obey by Grapik Arts Productions. In 1997, he did five films.
     By mid-1998, he resumed a more private life. In 2002, he made a comeback, performing in six films for All Worlds. He made a few more films in 2003. In 2004, he did a major release for Falcon, Longshot, and then retired again. His name continues to be affiliated with a multitude of subsequent video compilation productions.
     While in 9th grade and 16, he befriended his future wife, who was 21. They became best friends, which developed into a romance, and led to marriage in 1989. He married into a family with one toddler son, but quickly added his own with another boy and a girl. Knight said his wife "had a bit of a problem" watching him have sex with men at first, but was agreeable to it, as it paid well. Her greatest concern rested with the handful of bisexual films he did, often asking him to only engage in gay sex in such films.

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Chris Burns

Chris Burns (Danny Joe Burns)
36 years old - complications of AIDS
17 September 1958 (Vallejo, California) - February 26, 1995 (San Diego, California)
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75 career film credits, 116 including compilations
     Chris Burns was an actor who appeared in gay adult movies in the 1980s and early 1990s. He died in San Diego of AIDS at the age of 36. Born Danny Joe Burns in Vallejo, California, he retired from the adult film industry in 1993. Burns was in a long-term relationship with fellow adult film actor and director Jim-Ed Thompson.
     Danny and Jim Ed. Toyed with the idea of unionizing porn performers. He appeared with a Prince Albert in Master Hyde. Director Steve Scott is said to have told him he has "the most beautiful cock in porn." One writer described him as knowledgeable in martial arts which he used to make Below the Belt more realistic. He described himself as very hooked on his gym routine, experiencing withdrawal if he missed his workout, being serious enough that he rarely would pick somebody up at the gym. He made a film about self defense: Take Back the Night that he sold thru mail order. He also worked as an emergency medical technician and paramedic.
     Burns said he preferred to bottom but considered himself versatile enough to keep any director happy in a performance as a top. He claimed to enjoy all kinds of sex including fisting and felt that sexual pain was a turn on for him. He also enjoyed watching himself on video and felt that sex was not to be limited. He didn't like eating his own cum but would enjoy that of others until his own orgasm would turn that enjoyment off. For other performers, Burns recommended not getting into porn just for the money, otherwise one would be ruining it for others.
     Although he appeared in many pictures in print he was rarely filmed posing solo. Director Jeff Lawrence described him as the consummate bottom who would freak out some distributors because of how far he would push it.
     An article was published in the Bay Area Report Newspaper on 27 April 1995 about two months after Chris Burns died. The article was written by Cory Monroe.
     In memory and with great respect, I remember proudly one of the warmest people anyone could know - Mr. Chris Bums. Not only did I know him, but I was given the honor of his friendship that spanned longer than a decade. I am Cory Monroe, his friend.
     Not long ago, Chris left his home in San Francisco and relocated to the San Diego area to draw upon his family’s love and support. For many years Chris battled HIV, but it was cancer that proved to be overwhelming, and on February 26, 1995, his suffering ceased. The void will remain, for his shoes can never be filled.
     It is my sincere effort in this writing, that Chris Burns be remembered not only as a porn performer; but proudly as a porn person. There is no way a person can accurately say who we are, or how we are as people, based on the fact that someone made films. This is just one facet of our persona, and it is when all the facets are combined - only then do you get the entire picture of who we are.
     To discredit someone on the basis of porn alone is simply narrow-minded and judgmental. And until you, yourself, are perfect, you have no right to judge others. Save that job for the one person who is perfect, the man all of us must answer to when our own time is up.
     One of the outstanding facets that I admired most in Chris was his genuine concern of others - and the gay community particularity. During a time when gay bashing was prevalent, Chris developed a selfdefense video utilizing martial arts, an area Chris excelled in. This was done to help people regain control of their lives, rather than being left a victim. He really cared about the quality of their lives, and got off his butt to offer a solution to the problem.
     In addition to that, a little known fact about Chris was that he spent time working within the medical field. That type of job requires a special type of person: someone who is strong, sensitive, and who can put other people’s needs ahead of their own. It is a very demanding and unglamorous job, one that is not for just anyone.
     Both issues I bring forth demonstrate that Chris often thought of others before himself - a trait more people within this state should try to appropriate.
     In dealing with Chris you always knew where you stood: he was direct and to the point. Nothing was “sugar-coated” or done with ulterior motives. His honesty made it apparent he was in a select group, for he always told it like it was.
     The most brilliant and insightful quote Chris ever said to me, which helped me through a very ugly period in my life, I will leave as a final thought; as it may help you one day. “It is what it is - for the time that it is.”
     Cory Monroe

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Chris Ladd (Darwin Lee Moehle)

Chris Ladd (Darwin Lee Moehle)
30 years old - complications of AIDS
20 June 1960 (Austin, Texas) - 14 November 1990 (Houston, Texas)
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17 career film credits, 41 including compilations
     He started a dance career right out of high school, then as a stripper and model.
     Chris got his start in the porn business in 1988 when he appeared in four films, The Main Attraction (Catalina) where he gets fucked by Keith Panther (the long haired blond beauty). Then it was Hard Men 2: No Strings Attatched where he does a strip tease.
     1989 was a busy year for Chris as he appeared in eight films including The Rites of Summer where he fucks Canadian Cameron Kelly and gets fucked by Eric Manchester. And then there was The Rites of Winter where he gets fucked by Tim Lowe.
     1990 saw four more films then in 1991 (release date) he performed in his last film, View to a Thrill 2 Man with the Golden Rod (HIS Video) where he gets screwed by Corey Savage.
     You might notice the release date of Chris' last film was after he died. Sometimes it takes months and months of post production, packaging and promotion before a film is released. In this case, it was the following year.
     More information coming as I find it. Knew Darwin? Know more about him? Let me know.

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Chris Williams

Chris Williams (Todd Dunning Bart)
24 years old - complications of AIDS
22 December 1967 (Fairfax, Virginia) - 11 September 1991 (Jackson Memorial Hospital, Miami Florida)
Interred at Holly Hill Memorial Park in Thomasville, North Carolina (see Find A Grave Information)
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6 career film credits, 23 including compilations
     Chris Williams did exactly two photo layouts during his career. One was for "Mandate" and the other for "In Touch." Both issues are exceedingly rare. To come across a good photo of him is like finding a diamond in the earth.
     And yes, Chris Williams was a true jewel of a human being.
     Chris Williams was born Todd Dunning Bart on December 22, 1967, in Fairfax, Virginia. He had a rough childhood. He was willful and energetic, and his strict parents had little patience with which to deal with their bright, loving child. By the third grade, Williams was skipping school, disobedient, running away, and more. When he was eight, he was sent to live with his grandmother in North Carolina.
     He knew he was gay from as early as he could remember. His fundamentalist parents had clearly and strongly condemned his burgeoning sexuality, which created his severe emotional and relationship problems. In North Carolina, he began experimenting sexually with boys his own age and older. He lost his oral virginity when he was nine, and his anal virginity when he was 10 (although he did not top another man until he was into his late teens).
     When he was 14, Chris Williams left his grandmother's home and took up residence in Washington, D.C. He lived on the streets. He became a prostitute, turning several tricks a night in order to make enough money for food to eat, and to clothe himself.
     When he turned 16, he obtained a fake I.D. and began stripping in several local gay strip clubs. At the time, patrons could fondle the dancers, even masturbating them (although not bringing them to orgasm). Williams' large cock and huge balls were customer favorites. He cut his hair short, and bleached it a lighter shade of blond. He worked out at a local gym (often turning tricks for money in the steam room and showers). He lied and said he was from California in order to build a mystique about himself. He worked primarily at Chesapeake House (746 9th Street NW, now an office building; closed Sept. 1992) and Shooters (1520 Connecticut Ave. NW, now part of the Riggs Bank complex; closed Oct. 1992). He made hundreds of dollars a night, and was able to rent his first apartment. Williams was thrilled to be the object of attention, and he often said that the men who fucked him during this time taught him more about his sexuality, honesty, strong relationships and love than his family ever did.
     He soon sought work as an adult film star. Two weeks after he turned 18, he did his first feature film, "Steal My Stuff," for Bijou. The owner of Bijou Studios, Steven Toushin, owned a strip club/bath house/adult bookstore/sex club in Chicago (Bijou Theater). Williams had heard of the huge complex and its gay porn studio from strip club patrons in D.C., and sought work there when he was still 17. Bijou hired him, but told him he could not perform until he turned 18. He rushed to Chicago to do a film as soon as he could after his birthday. His performance in "Steal My Stuff" was outstanding.
     Williams was not enamored of the stop-and-go nature of sex on the gay porn set. Nevertheless, Bijou was able to get him to return a year later at a much higher salary. And Williams turned in yet another astounding job in the now-classic film, "Making It Big." His sizzling sexual performance, obvious charisma, huge cock, massive balls and hot body brought him to the attention of Falcon Studios' Chuck Holmes.
     In late 1987, Falcon paid Williams $1,000 -- then a princely sum for a gay porn star -- to appear in "Out of Bounds." It was a small role at the end of the feature, and a sloppily-made film. Williams thoroughly enjoyed his time in Los Angeles, however. He escorted heavily, making several thousand dollars. He also had sex with a large number of gay porn stars, people he had come to idolize and worship from afar. The gay nightlife was superb, the fashions fabulous, the money free-flowing, the food delicious, and there were swimming pools and drugs and sex 24/7.
     Williams returned to California roughly every two months throughout 1988. He worked twice more for Falcon. His poolside scene with Robert Harris in "Perfect Summer" begins with Harris using a motorized squirtgun to douche his asshole. Williams later said it was one of the kinkiest things he'd ever done, and he loved the moans and gasps the crew made as Harris squirted his well-fucked anus. But "Spokes 2" was probably his best effort. He had a three-way with Jim Bentley and Casey Jordan, taking two cocks at once up his copious asshole. He participated in a gang-bang in the final scene; the director couldn't stop the top-men from leaving the model they were supposed to screw and fucking Williams as hard as they could. Williams loved it.
     Williams snuck in a performance for Sierra Pacific along the way. He did the now-classic "Bare Tales," getting screwed by super-star Jim Pulver in a scene which still makes jaws drop. "The hot spot here is Pulver balling Williams," the authoritative Adam Gay Video Directory wrote. "I'm surprised they aren't lovers in real life, because they certainly know their way around each others' body."
     Toward the end of 1988, producers at Catalina offered Williams even more money to appear in films for that studio. Williams seized the opportunity. His first film, "My Best Buddy," was a dud. The casting of the film was all wrong, and performers were paired up with men they did not find attractive.
     But Williams' second film (and, unbeknownst to anyone, his final movie) was one of the best gay porn films ever made. It was "The Young Cadets," directed by Cameron Leight. The movie features Williams as -- get this -- a top. He has the hots for military academy roommate Erich Lange (who has made a recent comeback and is doing bareback videos these days). Together, they trade tales about sexual goings-on at their school before Williams leads a land-and-sea assault on Lange's tight, redheaded ass. The acting is lackluster. But the sex is top-notch. Very few films have better sexual performances than this masterpiece.
     Chris Williams fully intended to return to gay porn. But two things caught up to him and cut short his career -- and his life.
     In 1989, Williams was one of several prostitutes caught in the Bush I administration call-boy sex scandal, which also ensnared Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.) for a time (Frank was eventually cleared of wrong-doing). Since many of the men arrested in the sting by the D.C. Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) had fucked Williams when he was under-age, the police focused their attention on the newly-hatched porn star. Williams was arrested, threatened with a lengthy jail sentence and heavy fines, and told he would be sent to Lorton (the District's notoriously violent prison in northern Virginia). The police also threatened to put Williams in a wing with black gangs and rapists, and let the prison population know they had a gay porn star to play with. The likelihood of repeated prison gang-rape terrified Chris Williams.
     Isolated, without legal counsel, uneducated and psychologically tortured, Williams agreed to testify against his former clients in order to obtain immunity from prosecution.
     While the agreement kept Chris Williams out of prison, it alienated the gay community. Gay strip clubs refused to hire him. Many of his escort clients stopped using him.
     Destitute and emotionally broken, Williams then learned that he had become infected with HIV.
     By mid-1990, Chris Williams was homeless, eating poorly, ill and showing obvious signs of HIV infection (including KS). Under police surveillance on weekends, he was unable to support himself through prostitution. His court testimony was took several days, and destroyed the lives of many men -- most of whom had never suspected that they had hired an under-age hooker. (The police never investigated or fined the gay strip clubs for hiring an under-age dancer. Odd, eh? And Williams never ratted on the clubs, even after the club owners mistreated him. Nevertheless, the clubs turned on him, viciously.) The witch-hunt galvanized the gay community in D.C., and led to numerous changes in the way the District police conducted prostitution sweeps and stings involving the gay community. Out this scandal, the Gay and Lesbian Liaison Unit was established within the MPD as a means of protecting the GLBTQ community from police harassment.
     But all this came too late for Chris Williams.
     Sometime in the final months of 1990, Chris Williams moved to Miami -- believing the warmer climate would be better for his health. It wasn't. Penniless, in very poor health, malnourished, often homeless and without income for medication, his physical condition deteriorated rapidly.
     Chris Williams died at Jackson Memorial Hospital in Miami on September 11, 1991. He was 24 years old.
     As he lay dying, Chris Williams made extensive videotapes renouncing his 1990 court testimony. His deathbed confessions exposed the psychological manipulation techniques of the D.C. police. Williams asked that the hundred hours of videotape be given freely to every man accused of wrongdoing in the prostitution sting. Chris Williams died not knowing whether this would make a difference. But it did. A number of men had their convictions reversed, and others had their sentences and fines reduced.
     By all accounts, Chris Williams was a sweet, gentle, caring individual who continuously gave of himself. Deeply scarred emotionally, he nevertheless opened his heart whenever anyone asked him to. His outlook on life was positive, his willingness to help others boundless, and his sensitivity to others' needs almost psychic in nature. He delighted in providing his body to others; it was all he had to give, and so he gave it -- freely, graciously, joyously. He never begrudged sex to anyone. He was thrilled to be the object of anyone's attentions.
     Chris Williams had his dark side as well. He could be incredibly bitchy and cruel at times, especially when he felt that someone had wronged him or taken advantage of him. His self-esteem was non-existent, leading to deeply self-destructive behavior.
     But his intelligence, love and selflessness was obvious to anyone who knew him. Men marveled at how much of his life had been squandered. If he had only had more supportive parents, if he had only been counseled about his sexuality rather than forced to deny it, if he had only been given the opportunity and assistance to obtain an education rather than simply been ejected from school... His mind was like a sponge, eagerly absorbing knowledge. His creativity was boundless, exciting and shockingly original. He had no inhibitions, and sought out new experiences, new feelings, new thrills, new ideas and new people constantly.
     Some people said Chris Williams was nothing but a stupid, naive whore. He spread his legs for anyone, idiotically seeking self-worth through sex.
     That couldn't have been further from the truth.
     Chris Williams gave of both his body and his soul, freely and generously. All he asked was that someone love him.
     No one did.
     But Chris Williams is not forgotten. He made only nine films. But those nine movies portray some of the most honest, joyful, sincere and powerful sexual performances on film. He changed people's lives with his sexual acting. Thousands of men all over the world can point to Chris Williams' films and say, "I learned about my sexuality watching him." Thousands of men can point to his magazine layouts and say, "I learned about beauty from him." Thousands of men -- myself included -- can point to his performance and say, "I saw truth there. I saw honesty there. I saw a man who did not hide his sexuality, was not ashamed of who he was. I saw a man who took joy from his body and the bodies of others, and did not see guilt or wrong in that. I want to be like that man."
     The afterlife is open to Chris Williams. There, all tears are kissed away. All bitterness and pain are left behind like an old garment, shrugged off. As he so freely and willingly gave of himself in life, so he will freely be given the joy and love he desperately sought on earth, and which he so richly deserves.
     tim1965

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Christian Fox (Christopher John McLaughlin)

Christian Fox (Christopher John McLaughlin)
22 years old - suicide/overdose
5 April 1974 (Port Hardy, British Columbia, Canada) - 20 September 1996 (New Orleans, Louisana)
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28 career film credits, 68 including compilations
Placed in foster care at the age of 13. Ran away a few years later after claiming he'd been sexually molested by a social worker. Worked as an underage dancer in Toronto, Vancouver, New York City, and other places (under a fake I.D.) for several years. Allegedly did his first scene on his 18th birthday, although the film was not released until early 1993 (that is the year he turned 19). Known as a difficult performer, his career was in steep decline by early 1996. He'd married an American woman to get a green card, and moved to New Orleans, Louisiana. After learning that his agent had terminated their relationship, he agreed to enter drug rehab in early August 1996. In late August, he attempted suicide by throwing himself through a plate glass window. Too injured to enter rehab, his wife left him. He took a lethal dose of the horse anesthetic ketamine ("Special K"), and died in his apartment on September 20, 1996. His body, along with a suicide note for his mother and sister (who survived him), was found three days later. (from his obituary in "Manshots" magazine, March, 1997, and his obituary in "Gay Video Guide", #20 (November 1996).)

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Christopher Lance (Bobby Lance Slacke)

Christopher Lance (Bobby Lance Slacke)
27 years old - stabbed
26 November 1967 (Fort Dix, New Jersey) - 24 April 1994 (Dallas, Texas)
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6 career film credits, 16 including compilations
     Robert Lance Slacke, known as Bobby to his friends and as Christopher Lance to viewers who enjoyed the gay adult videos he made in the mid-Eighties, died April 24, 1994 at Parkland Memorial Hospital in Dallas, Texas.
     According to newspaper reports at the time, Bobby and a boyfriend got into a fight at the latter's apartment in Oakland (a Dallas suburb) on Sunday, April 24, 1994 and ended up stabbing each other with a knife. Police we called and both men were admitted to Parkland Hospital. Bobby died there at ten o'clock that evening, and his assiliant, who recovered, was discharged two days later. Authorities treated the crime as a domestic dispute. Bobby's killer was charged with murder but convicted of manslaughter and was on probation.
     Bobby was born in Fort Dix, New Jersey while his father was stationed there is the US Air Force. Slacke lived in the Dallas area after graduating from high school. He worked as an exotic dancer at the blubs Big Daddy's and the Blue Parrot. He was also a waiter at a French restaurant, The Enclave.
     For several years beginning in 1985, he made occasional visits to the West Coast and starred in several videos for Matt Sterling and William Higgins. The videos he appeared in, Dynastud, The Other Side of Aspen 2 and The Young & the Hung (A Jevic personal favorite!) are among the most famous videos of the eighties.

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Cody Foster (Shawn Louis Sumner)

Cody Foster (Shawn Louis Sumner)
36 years old - liver cancer
9 October 1970 (Denver, Colorado) - 7 January 2007 (Grand Junction, Colorado)
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20 career film credits, 36 including compilations
     Foster was born October 9, 1970. Almost nothing is known about him. He grew up in the Denver area, and his family was very poor. He had a very hard childhood. Some adult film directors say he suffered from physical abuse as a child. He had only a high school education, and got married around 1990.
     He had numerous run-ins with the law. In 1992, an entire family filed a civil case against him. In 1993, he was convicted in Colorado of misdemeanor charges for prohibited use of a weapon, possession of a small amount of marijuana, and possession of drug paraphernalia. He'd had a restraining order placed against him by another man in 1993, and he'd been sued by a family member for money.
     On June 21, 1994, Foster was convicted for a felony for retaliating against a person he had previously victimized. In other words: He'd beaten his wife up very severely, and she filed charges. He began serving a four-year sentence in the Jefferson County (Colo.) Jail in 1995.
     Foster's adult career had begun a few years earlier. He began modeling for a Colorado photographer in 1991. This led to Foster's work in adult film. In 1991, he made his debut in a the JO film "Stargazing." The film starred a number of "up and coming" Catalina stars. Foster was the only one to really break big. His first hard-core film was "Malibu Pool Boys" (All Worlds Video, 1992), in which he topped and bottomed with Chad Knight in a sizzling bedroom scene. He famously bottomed for Arik Travis in the same film. The same year, he did his only bisexual film, "Bi-Ology" (Catalina).
     In 1994, as his legal troubles worsened, Foster did only three films. But again, they were top-notch productions for the biggest studios. He was a co-star in "The Bigger the Better 2" for HIS Video, but was a star and cover-model for Falcon's "Workin' Stiff" (almost eclipsing the studio's biggest name at the time, Brad Stone) and Studio 2000's massive hit, "Grease Guns."
     Foster made a brief return to mainstream adult gay film in 2002 (doing "Open House" for Massive Studios). He followed it up in 2003 with "Goldenrod" for Studio 2000. In 2006, Foster performed in his last film. He returned to Grapik Arts for "Tough-Man Bondage."
     No obituary has appeared anywhere in the United States for Shawn L. Sumner. The local paper, the "Grand Junction Sentinel," did not even run a death notice. It may be that his family, disgusted by his criminal background and homosexual activity, did not care enough to remember him. There are those, however, who were touched and amazed by his sexual performances. And we remember him.
tim1965.livejournal.com

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Cole Carpenter (John Erickson)

Cole Carpenter (John Erickson)

Cole Carpenter
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell - Still Researching
10 May 1957 (Minneapolis, Minnesota)
16 career film credits, 35 including compilations
     He performed as an exclusive top in gay and bisexual films, except in Tyger Tales in 1986. In the film, Carpenter makes a point of demanding that Michael Ram use a rubber to fuck him. When they flip flopped, Carpenter fucked Ram bareback.
     While he only performed in sixteen films, seveal were blockbusters and personal favorites. In 1985 he appeared in The Young and the Hung where he fucks both J.T. Denver and Terry Evans. The film was written, directed, produced and filmed the legendary William Higgins. The following year, 1986, he was in two giant films, The Bigger They Come and Spring Break. He fucks Chris Grey in the opening scene of The Bigger They Come. In Spring Break, one of my all-time favorite films, Cole fists Chris Burns in the sling while Chad Douglas and Cory Monroe look on.
     Shortly after Carpenter turned 30, he retired from the porn industry. He currently lives in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Cole Claire (Tristan Evans)

Cole Claire (Tristan Evans)
26 years old - renal failure
27 June 1997 (Kilgor, Texas) - 21 February 2024 (Wright City, Texas)
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18 career film credits, 19 including compilations
     Tristen passed away from renal failure at his residence in Wright City, Texas. He spent most of his life in Wright City. Tristen grew up attending Arp schools and later graduated from Chico High School in Chico, California. His adventurous spirit and path in life led him to California, Colorado, and Arizona before returning home to Wright City. He loved to listen to music and sing, and he loved nature, particularly animals and reptiles, especially turtles. He adopted, and was dog dad to Chloe and Dingo, and he loved them very much.
     On February 16, 2024 he posted the following:
     To my fans & followers,
     Okay, I've posted about it regularly since my diagnosis so I hope this doesn't come as too much of a shock to most of you. I've been living with End Stage Renal Disease for the past two years, the past 14 months of which I've required dialysis to stay alive. This past week I conveyed to my doctors and family that I've decided to stop all treatments and begin hospice, starting today. I'm sure I'll still be posting family pics over the next few weeks, but please don't be annoyed if I stop responding to any messages.
     Five days later, Tristen passed away.

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Cory Adams

Cory Adams
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell. Still Researching
Born c1963
12 career film credits, 20 including compilations
     Cory's first film was for William Higgins's 1983 classic Class Reunion which is famous for it ending daisy chain scene with twenty hot guys going at it.
     Cory performed in five films in 1983, but his most memorable role, for William Higgins anyway, may have been Cousins, in the threeway with Lance Whitman and Tony Kidd who ends up getting fucked by Cory and Lance. ‘I don’t suck daddy’s dick, daddy sucks my dick because my dick’s hot. Want some?’ Such acting! LOL The guys say ‘never!’ and Cory offers them 200 bucks to change their mind, which they agree to once he makes it 300. And the sex scene (all of Cousins really) is Higgins at the top of his game, the camera work, cinematography, slo-mo cumshots, it’s all there.
     Cory performed in a number a memorable films including Sailor in the Wild, French Lieutenant's Boys, and Beyond Hawaii that was actually shot in Hawaii and has Cory flip flop fucking with Cory Monroe (credited as Sandy Shaw).
     More about Cory as I find it. Know him? Have more information about him? Let me know.

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Cory Monroe

Cory Monroe
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell. Still Researching
Born c1963
86 career film credits, 135 including compilations
     Cory Monroe is a prolific “blond jock American bottom” classic adult film star that made it big in the industry during the early 80's. He debuted in his first film in 1982 and went on to become one of the biggest stars of the decade. Cory is part of that pre-condom vintage era of porn that churned out countless stars and even more hot videos of bareback sex. His athletic physique, handsome face and piercing blue eyes made him a favorite among fans of gay porn, and garnered him endless job offers in the industry. Cory performed from 1982 to 2001.
     The 1982-83 film from Laguna Pacific and director William Higgins was Brother Load and it would be Cory Monroe's first as he got fucked in scene six by Paul Madison. Cory was credited as Sandy Shaw. Some gay porn movies rank as classics but somehow slip beneath the radar as the years go by. Such is the case with Brother Load, a celebration of all things twinkish by the great William Higgins.
     He did one other film in 1983 and was credited as Eric Reikert in Nova Films' Oh Brother. This loosely plotted film keeps it in the family, as a couple of brothers get naked with one another! Cory flip flop fucks with Ross Franklin in scene one, has a four way in scene three and finally gets fucked by his "brother" Kurt Reikert in the last scene. They are both credited as being "supposedly" brothers.
     Cory would take off a year before returning to the cameras for William Higgins again in Beyond Hawaii. What happens when Higgins and his Santa Monica Boulevard Boys arrive in Honolulu for some fun in the sun? Let's just say the locals and tourists need to keep an eye on their sons! Scene three has Cory (once again credited as Sandy Shaw) teamed up with Cory Adams. They walk down a trail that overlooks the beach, where Sandy points out some of the sights like a crater and a lava flow. Soon they are stripping each other and swapping blowjobs, Cory sucking Sandy first and then Sandy returning the favor. They walk down closer to the beach and find a spot near some rocks, where Cory bends Sandy over and fucks him standing up. After Cory cums on Sandy's ass they switch places and Sandy fucks Cory in the same position until he pulls out and shoots his load onto Cory.
     Cory was busy in 1986 performing in twenty-three films, that's one film almost every two weeks! It was also the year he performd in one of my all-time favorite films, Falcon Studios' Spring Break. In scene three, Cory is paired with Chad Douglas. Chad rams his humongous cock in and out of Cory's splayed asshole, picking him up and fucking him in midair. This aggressive deep penetrating, forced-fucking scene makes this movie one of the more classic and memorably Falcon Studios features. In the last scene, as Chris Burns receives some brutal butt play with huge dildos from Cole Carpenter, Cody can only stand by and hold the Poppers bottle for Chris.
     1987 saw Cory performing in fourteen films including director Richard Morgan's Pump where Cory is fucked by two black studs, Ty Jones and Randy Cochran.
     Cory made thirteen films in 1988 including several bisexual films. Things slowed down for Cory following 1988 as he made twenty-one films during the next thirteen years. His last film was the truest spirit of pornographic leatherwork in Club Dungeon (2001). Utilizing a varying array of men done up in varying degrees of leather, the sex itself is clearly about the mindset of dungeon life and not the dressing up that goes into it.
     In scene one, he stands by a cage and is approached by his master, muscular but realistic-looking Coby Kincade, wearing chaps and a thick chain necklace. The scene has no lead-in, for once Cory opens his mouth for Coby's fat dick, a magnificently lustful insatiable blowjob starts. For many minutes in a bunch of positions, Cory proves he can't be fed too much dick. His entire face, most notable for its backless throat, is thrown into the action, but the best part of it all, besides all the saliva and the display of talent, is the moaning. It's actually acute gagging, but it's so hot. It's not gagging for trying too hard, but gagging because Cory is so deep into the blowjob he has no thought of anything but enjoying the cock. It's beautifully executed. He also sucks from inside a small cage where he has to reach his whole body up to get fed the damn thing by Coby, who looks boy-next-door but has the roughness of a trained master. Cory then gets into a most interesting position, standing on his arms with his butt and legs through the cage hole and Coby smacks his ass hard. He then fucks it, still in this position, even harder. The fuck is the natural extension of the intense blowjob earlier and both guys spring totally into action. There is nothing nice about the pounding as Coby is little more than a series of talented angry thrusts and Cory loves every minute of it, shoving his butt up further to take more and more. Coby does slow down near the end of the fuck when they both cum.
     That's the "film" story of Cory Monroe, now the personal story.
     Cory was born in 1963 in Long Beach, California as Santo "Sandy" Calla. He was honest about his film work with his family and had a good relationship with all of them. He was a teetotaler, didn't drink or do drugs. He liked to be in control of his life. He liked to stay clean and presentable. He enjoyed spending time with his beagle "Duke." Cory always had music playing and was a big fan of the classics like Frank Sinatra and Ella Fitzgerald. He had a fair collection of vinyl albums too. He briefly attended Alameda Community College but dropped out after one semester. Cory lived in Berkeley in the early 1990s and always used public transit to get around (BART). He was highly organized, to the point of having his porn collection alphabetized.
     Cory loved sex. He used to say "Gay guys fuck. The only difference between me and other gay guys is that I fuck on film." He was primarily a bottom on screen. In his personal life he preferred to bottom, but would occasionally top. He was very proud of his first scene with Chad Douglas in Spring Break. He "worked the hell out of that camera." Cory once described Chad as a twenty minute man. Cory was a huge fan of Tom Steel too, although they never performed on camera together.
     Cory was not a fan of straight sex. He tried it a few times, doing bisexual movies. He did not like fucking a woman. He also did some interracial films that he didn't particularly care for. He did both just to see what it was like.
     He was a blue eyed beauty with naturally blond hair. He would occasionally add highlights to his hair.
     After retiring from the film business, Cory kept a dozen or so "clients" he met with on a regular basis that allowed for some income.
     After an exhaustive internet search, I could find nothing more about his life or death after he retired from porn. Usually, if there is a death of a star of Cory's stature, there would be a mention by a magazine, a production company or even on one of the multitude of gay porn blogs. That being said, I can only assume that Cory is alive and well and living the good life.
     Thanks to Tony for your invaluable assistance. More about Cory as I find it. Know him? Have more information about him? Let me know.

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Donnie Price/Craven Cox (Chad Eli Noel)

Donnie Price/Craven Cox (Chad Eli Noel)

Craven Cox aka Donnie Price (Chad Eli Noel)
25 years old - complications of AIDS
1 March 1985 (Lander, Wyoming) - 9 March 2010 (New York, New York)
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8 career film credits, 8 including compilations
     Chad Noel age 25, a former “twink genre” gay porn performer using the stage names of Donny Price & Craven Cox passed away in New York City, on March 17, 2010 following a brief illness associated with complications of HIV. He was adopted at birth by James and Peggy (Wheat) Noel. He attended Linford Elementary School, Laramie Junior High School and Laramie High School. He enjoyed hunting, four wheeling and art. He was a very talented person and was aspiring to become an artist. He will be greatly missed by all who knew him.
     “I remember him playing with me in my pretend kitchen and being one of the only boys to not pick on me,” writes Kendra of her gay adolescent friend on the Laramie Boomerang’s online obituary page. “Chad was my Senior Prom date, it was truly one of the funnest nights of my life,” adds Rebecca. Reminiscences of his smile and humor abound in posted comments under his one-sentence death notice. Little did Rebecca know that her date would quickly become gay porn actor Donny Price who would make his first film at 18 years old.
     A lot of what I found while searching for informatin about Chad's life, who he was, what he liked to do, what his dreams were ... was about bareback sex (unprotected). Chad worked in an industry that once touted the use of condoms. Porn viewers were more into the fantasy part of porn and wanted to see more and more bareback sex. Studios responded and HIV is on the rise again. It is a shame that Chad got so much attention for what he died of as opposed to what he did and wanted to do. Despite all that, there are people who miss Chad everyday.

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Damon Audigier (Damon Lee Richey)

Damon Audigier (Damon Lee Richey)
21 years old - suicide
24 Jun 1990 (El Reno, Oaklahoma) - 30 Jan 2012 (El Reno, Oaklahoma)
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11 career film credits, 20 including compilations
     Damon Audigier had Latin traits and was a descendent of the Arapho tribe, being considered “half” Native American. His porn career started when he was very young, at 19 years old. Between 2009 and 2012 (the year of his death), Audigier starred in 11 movies, acting as a top in some of them, while as a bottom in others, showing his handsome body of 5’10” and 165 pounds.
     In 2010, the porn star was arrested for suspected involvement in the murder of an 18-year-old young man, stabbed to death at El Reno, Oklahoma. Audigier was charged with conspiracy, for having influenced his friend in order to murder the young man, as well as gun possession.
     Throughout his brief career, the actor also worked as a drag queen and a cosmetologist, besides being directed by the famous drag queen and erotic movies director Chi Chi Larue. Damon Audigier reportedly committed suicide and died at 21 years old.

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Danny Bliss

Danny Bliss
Alive and Well
Born in 1964 (Chicago, Illinois)
76 career film credits, 106 including compilations
     Danny was a very short, handsome, brunette gay porn star who was active primariy as a bottom in the early 1990s. Slightly effeminate and suffering from some erection problems, the boy was a very, very good actor. And he was one of the best bottoms the business ever produced.
     I watched him take the magnificent horse-cock of Steve Kennedy in "Las Vegas Love Gods" -- and Kennedy slid up his ass like he was meant to be there. Bliss smiled this amazing smile ... The smile that only true size-queen bottoms smile when that "special place" is reached deep inside them. When a man's cock is so long and thick that it touches his heart.
     Danny was designed by God to be fucked.
     Toward the end of his career, Danny became rather muscular. He got some sweet pecs, his thighs muscled out (which really helped him get rid of that "skinny chicken" look), and his face lost some of that boyishness and gained some masculinity.
     I always got hard while looking at Danny Bliss. He had beautiful, dark eyes. The kind of eyes which have an inner light, and which illuminate as much as they see. He had great, thick sheafs of dark-brown hair, and his body was just a little hairy in the right places. I'm no armpit fetishist, but I loved looking at Danny whenever he put his hand behind his head.
     He had a great mouth. I mean: A superb, fully, pouty, bright-red, bee-stung mouth. I wanted to kiss him so bad ... I loved his half-day beard that he got (which few actors at the time had), and the great, strong jawline.
     Danny Bliss had a really large penis when he was fully hard. The problem was in getting him fully hard, which rarely happened. Usually, he was hard only when a huge cock was brutally and swiftly fucking his ass.
     He had a sweet, muscular ass. When he spread his legs, his asshole was always thrust forward, front and center. It's as if his body were designed to get fucked. I always envied that. My body is not designed that way. Guys struggle to get me into positions where they can penetrate me. I envied Bliss in that way ... his body took cock so easily, so bravely (He was so short! How could he take such huge dongs? Oh, I was jealous and proud of him at the same time!).
     He was designed by God to be fucked in the ass.
     Well, no one else may remember him. But I remember Danny Bliss. I wish I could meet him. I'd kiss his penis and tell him how proud he made me to be a bottom.
     tim1965
     Thank you to Tim for another great review. Danny Bliss had some very memorable scenes. In Tease Me! (1989 Sierrea Pacific Video) he has a three way with Michael Vincent and Chad James. He get's spit roasted with Michael and Chad changing positions mid fuck. In Danny's Anal Ordeal (1991 Image Video) Danny gets thrown in jail and has the satisfy 6 hardened men. Danny repeats this scene in Gangbang Towel Boy only this time the tops are all black.
     Danny took a long break from the porn business from 1997 until 2012. He returned matured and buffed with a new screen name, Daniel Pryce. Nothing since then. Danny is restless soul who likes to laugh. He is half Irish and half Italian.

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Danny Brown

Danny Brown
Alive and Well - Still Researching
1971 (Montreal, Canada)
98 career film credits, 174 including compilations
     A French speaking Canadian, Danny was perhaps the first international porn star when he traveled to France to work with Jean-Daniel Cadinot. Danny was prolific in his fim making, appearing in almost one hundred films, mostly as a bottom. He started his career in 1988 and retired in 2005. He appeared in 17 films with Tony Davis, 13 with Randy Cochran, 10 with Les Stine, 14 with Gino Colbert.
     Films of note include 1989's Tasting Mr. Goodbar where Danny fucks Sparky O'Toole in scene two and fucks Charlie Stone in scene four. Not to be outdone, Danny returns in scene seven to be fucked by Anthony Cox and again in scene nine he gets fucked by Roberto Arias.
     It's hard to pick out a few of my favorite Danny Brown films, but Le Coursier aka The Courier ranks near the top. It was directed by Jean-Daniel Cadinot. Assan Ariana is the star of this film. He is the courier sent to pick out a dildo. But what size and shape should he choose? Quite naturally, he tries them all out - from the smallest to the biggest - opening his hole but also the eyes and the cock of the superb salesman who lets him try everything for size. It is just one of the hot scenes in this film, but the threeway with Danny and Kamel Amar in the back of an ambulance, complete with dildo play, steals the show.
     Not much more about Danny's life to be found. I'll keeping digging. Know more about him? Let me know.

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Danny Cocker (Daniel Charles Cockerline)

Danny Cocker (Daniel Charles Cockerline)
35 years old - suicide by overdose
30 September 1960 (Toronto, Canada) - 11 December 1995 (Toronto, Canada)
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8 career film credits, 10 including compilations
     Danny was born in North Bay, Ontario, about 350 kilometers north of Toronto. The Cockerlines were a working-class Catholic family in a small city of fewer than 25,000 people when he was born. His father worked as a car mechanic and his mother, just seventeen when he was born, stayed at home to take care of the kids. Reflecting on his childhood in a 1993 interview, Danny noted that his parents’ lack of formal education and his working-class background instilled in him a distrust of authority and rules for rules’ sake. In a 1990 interview with culture critic and filmmaker Nik Sheehan, Danny recounted the difficulties of growing up a sissy in Canada in the 1960s and 1970s, mentioning the anti-gay bullying he faced once his teenage sexual liaisons with a friend of his older brother became public. At this time, the age of consent for same-sex sexual activity in Canada was twenty-one. Despite the challenges Danny faced growing up gay and effeminate in a small Canadian city, later in his life he was accepted and supported by his family, even after coming out as a successful porn performer and prostitute.
     Danny would later reflect on seeing an advertisement in the Globe and Mail newspaper for a Toronto club called Katrina’s that had “gay and straight” clientele. This advert was part of what drew him to Toronto as a university student. According to Danny, it was the first time he had ever seen the word gay used as matter-of-fact description as opposed to as part of a judgment or insult. Like many small town gays and lesbians before him, Danny moved to the big city in search of community, acceptance, sex, and love.
     Danny was a prostitute, a porn star and a pin-up boy for the Safe Sex activist movement in Toronto which he speerheaded. Danny moved from North Bay to Toronto to go to college at Ryerson. He was sitting in a Yonge Street bar one night when he heard a commotion, and he immediately joined the gay bathhouse riots of 1981. Danny joined the Right to Privacy Committee which was set up to defend the men arrested under bawdy house changes in the bathhouse raids.
     By 1982, Danny was writing news stories for The Body Politic gay newspaper, and became a member of their editorial collective in 1983. In the course of writing news covering arrests Danny found an affinity with hookers who were being busted under the same laws. So, he became one. Danny was instantly highly successful, and together with Chris Bearchell and Peggy Miller (a veteran streetworker who was busted after bringing an undercover cop home) he founded the Canadian Organization for the Rights of Prostitutes (CORP) in 1983. Under the auspices of CORP and with help from the AIDS Committee of Toronto (ACT), Danny founded the Prostitutes' Safe Sex Project, and produced some of Canada's first safe sex pamphlets for sex workers in 1986.
     In 1990, Danny received an HIV-positive diagnosis while in Vancouver at the Gay Games. When Danny returned to Toronto in 1992, he took a contract and wrote - almost single-handedly - the Maggie's (Toronto Prostitutes' Community Service Project) Operations Manual, bylaws and policies which were adopted at Maggie's first annual general meeting in 1993. By 1993, Danny was a member of the international Network of Sex Work Projects and attended the International AIDS Conference in Berlin. He was also a member of the North American network, Coalition Advocating Safer Hustling, based out of the Gay Men's Health Crisis (GMHC) in New York. Danny kept his HIV-positive status mostly private, feeling it might undermine his safer sex activism.
     Danny died on December 11, 1995, and left a suicide note. He did not want to put his family and friends through a lingering AIDS death (though he was in fine health and nowhere near getting sick). He had become increasingly depressed and anxious after the Ontario Conservative government cut off funding for HIV medications. News of his sudden death sent a shockwave of sadness throughout the globe, particularly for sex worker activists for whom he had been such an inspiration. We miss you, Danny Cockerline.

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Danny Sommers

Danny Sommers
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell - Still Researching
107 career film credits, 243 including compilations
Danny Sommers (was born in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. Once upon a time, you could not open a porn mag or watch a porn film without Danny Somers being in it. He spelled his last name at least three ways, but he was a hunk nevertheless - the archetypal boy next door. He was 5-foot-8, had the body and musculature of a gymnast and was known for his aggressive bottom behavior, his young good looks, his panther tattoo and his succulent smooth ass for the ages - usually set off by a hard-edged tan line. Danny was a power bottom. He could take the biggest and fattest cock of his era, which belonged to Kris Lord. Danny's career spanned 1990-1995. Films released later, as late as 2006, were probably shot during his working years. He said in an interview once that he would stay in the jizz biz until he had enough money to pay for med school, then he would retire. And that's what he did. In an atypical scene from Score 10 (MSC 009), Ryan Idol, on the hood of a Jeep, jerks off tantalizingly for Danny, who's yanking his own meat in the front seat. Idol rubs himself on the windshield while Somers licks the inside of the glass, steaming it with his breath while lusting after the hot flesh a scant quarter-inch away. Idol alternatingly presses cock, balls, and asshole against the glass for Sommers to worship, all the while lost in his own jerkoff reverie.
Well, that's the "film" story, but the personal story is still being researched. Know more about Danny? Let me know.

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David Ashfield

David Ashfield
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell - Still Researching
70 career film credits, 149 including compilations
     David's first film was 1982's Boys Can't Help It. In 1984, he was busy performing in fourteen films including Coverboy, Hot Off the Press and One Size Fits All. The next year, David performed in seventeen films including the blockbuster The Pizza Boy He Delivers where he exchanges blow jobs with Grant Fagan in the opening sequence and later in scene three, Grant sucks himself and David fucks him.
     David stared in fourteen films in 1986 and stun dicked in the fifteenth film, The Bigger They Come for Catalina and director Scott Masters. In scene one he stunt dicked for Cole Carpenter, in scene four for John Davenport and in scene five he stunt dicks for Mike Lee. In Full Load - Maximum Oversize David did stunt work for Rex Morgan in oral sequences, for Mark Donovan in anal sequnces, for Ray Stockwell in some anal sequences and for Jim Pulver in some anal sequences.
     1993 saw he last film with I'm in the Palm of Your Hand where he fucks Tony Kennedy and Melchor Agular.
     By far, my most favorite David Ashfield film is the 1986 release of Spring Break for Falcon. In the opening scene he is scortching hot with Kevin Wiles and Chris Thompson. Kevin Wiles put on an awesome show as we get to watch a close up of Kevin sitting on David's hard cock. David and Chris return in scene four taking turns fucking Jeff Converse. Spring Break is one of my all-time favorite films and David plays an important role in making that film so hot.
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     David speaks for himself; passages from an interview in the October 1987 issue of Hot Shots:
     “Fantasies started to come along when I was about 12 years old … I grew up in the desert in Arizona. So of course, I had dreams and fantasies of long blonde-haired country boys; and grass and trees; playing in the woods; you always dream of what you don't have.”
     “Do you find it more exhilarating with a live audience?"
     "No, because it's a totally different trip. When we're doing the movies we're in a corner, just us and the cameraman; it's still pretty much private, even though there are people there. Everyone knows exactly what's going on, and are all part of the deal. Whereas when I'm on stage I'm a spectacle. I try to be a trouper and do a good job of it, bring out the Scorpio side of my image, but, a lot of times I still get the willies.”
     “For the record, what is the main feature about your cock that makes you stand out in a crowd?"
     "A lot of guys have a dick as long as mine, but most people don't have one as fat as mine. It's 6-1/2 inches around. And in the movies I can really fuck.
     "Do you find a lot of guys can't take you?"
     "Some can, some can't. About an even number, I guess.”
     “Do you believe you are more open to different types of sexual situations now because of changes to your lifestyle, or do you think it is a result of getting to know yourself better?"
     "I'm still pretty simple-minded when it comes to sex. I'm not real kinky or anything. I don't get sex drunk … Oh let's tie each other up, and dildoes, and dildoes, and cock rings, and all that stuff. One naked boy across the bed and I'll suck his dick and he'll suck my dick.”
     “Do you like to get if off more now than you did before becoming a porn star?"
     "I would like to but couldn't. Shit, when I was a kid, I used to beat off between four and nine times a day. Now once is fine with me. Once, maybe twice.”
     “What does a director look for in a new talent?"
     "Hot sex. If you can prove you do it lovingly is what counts. People who want to work."
     "Can you elaborate on what you mean by 'Do it lovingly?'"
     "Sure. There are a lot of boys in porn who get in there to do it just for the money. When you watch the film they look bored. This is because most movies are shot one piece at a time. Between the director saying, 'This is what I want you to do. Move this way, say this at a certain point, insert your dick into that hole.' This is all done piece, by piece, by piece. And if at the edges of each little scene you lose character, then it will be conveyed in each little segment of the movie. When you work with another model who knows how to stay in character, espcially when the camera is off, then we can keep the scene going between us. Keep it hot so as soon as they click back in they're coming right into frame.”
     “You cannot help warming up to David Ashfield. He's totally unaffected and extremely masculine. He says that at some point in the future he would like to settle down with someone special.”
     Also, like Joan Crawford, according to the interview, he answered every fan letter.
     In fact, oddly, he kind of reminds me of her, not physically of course, nor did he put on the glamorous movie star persona, but because he took his work, revealed in his technique, so seriously. He was his technique.
     And it worked, gloriously, in more than a hundred videos.
     Also, like Joan Crawford, according to the interview, he answered every fan letter.
     And, as well, Joan suffered stage fright; like David, she preferred to work in the studio.
Thanks to BijouBlog for that!
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     Whatever he's doing now, we wish him well knowing that we can continue to enjoy his youthful hot body on video anytime we want to. Cheers David!

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Denis Reed

Denis Reed (Denis Reed)
30 years old - motorcycle accident
9 November 1985 (Prague Capital City, Czech Republic) - 7 May 2016 (Czech Republic)
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338 career film credits, 484 including compilations
     Famous pornstar, director and producer Denis Reed died in a motorcycle accident. On Reed’s Facebook, a representative reports that the accident occured when he lost control of his motorcycle at a sharp right bend and crashed into a tree. On the way to the hospital, the 31-year-old succumbed to his severe injuries and died.
     Reed, also known as Jan Velicka, Pavel Matous, Ian Voight, and other porn names, started his career in the adult entertainment industry in 2004, and had since become one of the most well-known porn actors from Eastern Europe. He had appeared in hundreds of both gay and straight porn. One might recognise his work for sites like CzechBoys, Willam Higgins and Staxus. He also became one of the guys behind Czech Hunter, reports Queerfever, and worked as a talent scout in Czech Republic.
     A Czech news site reports that Reed leaves behind a wife and a young son. Other sources describe Reed as a huge motorcycle enthusiast, and that his wife had asked him to stop using his motorcycle and to sell it away for his own safety.

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Dick Masters (Kelly Doyle Trammel)

Dick Masters (Kelly Doyle Trammel)
30 years old - spinal cancer
28 September 1964 (Athens, Texas) - 27 April 1990 (Los Angeles, California)
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9 career film credits, 18 including compilations
Dick Masters was born as Kelly Doyle Trammell. A six-footer, Dick Masters was rightly famous for his enormous cut cock, which was allegedly a full 12 inches when hard. Kelly got a degree from the University of Texas in accounting and began his porn career in about 1989. He always topped.
Kelly said he never met a cock larger than his. He moved to L.A. to cash in on that feature and be in the gay community. Kelly told Manshots that his first time having sex with a woman was on a Paul Norman bisexual film, presumably Black and Beyond. He graduated valedictorian from highschool and got an accounting degree. Kelly worked for a while at Sierra Pacific and got started as an escort via the owner of his gym who ran an agency. Kelly died of spinal cancer on April 27, 1990.

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Eric Manchester (Ronald Liter)

Eric Manchester (Ronald Liter)
58 years old - heroin overdose
26 August 1964 (Dallas, Texas) - 12 March 2023 (San Francisco, California)
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25 career film credits, 78 including compilations
     Eric (Ronald) was a prolific gay porn performer in the 1980s, appearing in over a dozen films between 1986 and 1989. Raised on a farm, served in the Navy and introduced to Dirk Yates by a model that had worked for him. Yates described him as a class act. Raised Mormon, his siblings were aware of his film experience and were not "impressed" but not surprised either. In a Manshots interview, Jeff Appel said, "Always a pleasure to work with. His dick never goes soft, and there is something about him that is so terribly sexy."
     Ronald virtually disappeared following his last performance in 1994 "Powerline." Speculation about his whereabouts continued for years.
     According to the Obituary - Ronald was raised by Donald and Doris Liter growing up in Oklahoma and Indiana. He was a gentle soul who loved his four sisters and other family. He loved helping and serving others, cooking, eating, nature and the outdoors.
     Ronald, a former San Francisco resident, was visiting the city in March 2023 when he was found dead by housekeeping staff in his hotel room. The cause was a heroin overdose.

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Eric Stryker (Michael Skrzypcak)

Eric Stryker (Michael Skrzypcak)
33 years old - complications of AIDS
24 September 1954 (Erie, Pennsylvania) - 19 February 1988 (Sherman Oaks, Los Angeles, California)
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21 career film credits, 31 including compilations
Michael Skrzypcak was best known by his stage name Eric Stryker, was an American gay pornographic performer and model. He was known for his handsome blond features and his muscular physique. He also performed as Noel Kemp for Colt Studio, Mike Kelly, Mike Saunders and, Michael John Saunders.
In 1984, shortly after his lover died from AIDS, Stryker was diagnosed with HIV. His response was to focus his activities away from the life of a porn star and become an activist for AIDS awareness. Stryker continued his studies in architecture at Woodbury University and his regular workouts. As he put it, "I live for the day." He worked with the AIDS Couples Group and lectured around the country for the AIDS Project Los Angeles. In 1987, he appeared in the documentary "It Starts with A," his last film appearance. In his last public appearance, his body showing the effects of Kaposi's sarcoma, he marched in the Christopher Street West parade in Los Angeles in a tank top and shorts, becoming one of the early persons with the disease to publicly display its symptoms. On February 19, 1988, he died of AIDS at Sherman Oaks Community Hospital. He was 33.

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Erron aka Jeremy Brent (David Don Skrivanek)

Erron aka Jeremy Brent (David Don Skrivanek)
37 years old - complications of AIDS
6 Aiugust 1948 (Austin, Texas) - 22 April 1986 (St. Louis, Missouri)
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17 career film credits, 20 including compilations
     David Skrivanek passed away peacefully in the arms of his longtime companion and lover, Dennis "Buzz'" Hoff in their home in St. Louis, Mo. Beside Buzz, he is survived by his sister, Judy, of Arlington, Texas.
     David had waged his valiant struggle with AIDS since Oct., 1984 and had been employed as a flight attendant for TWA since 1978. He was 37 years old.
     He will be remembered by many in the early '70s as "Erron" of Colt Magazine fame and resided in San Francisco in 1973. His many friends in the Bay Area as well as Los Angeles and New York City (where he subsequently lived) will miss his warmth of spirit, generosity and kind, loving heart.

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Fred Halsted

Fred Halsted
47 years old - Suicide by sleeping pill overdose
20 July 1941 (Long Beach, California) - 9 May 1989 (Dana Point, California)
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13 career film credits, 21 including compilations, 14 as director
     Halsted claimed to have been raised a Doukhobor. His father moved out when he was three. Halsted left at age 15. Studied botany at L.A. State and was engaged but broke it off. He moved to Hollywood to "find myself a faggot" and took up with a guy 10 years senior for 3 years.
     Halsted met his lover, Joey Yale (for whom he claims to have coined the word twinkie), in front of a Hollywood leather bar in 1969. Together they started working on his first film L.A. Plays Itself, which took 3 years to finish in 1972. They were together, except for 3 years after 1972, until Yale succumbed to AIDS in 1986. Within 2 years, a despondent Halsted left a note and overdosed himself on sleeping pills: "I had a good life... I've had looks, a body, money, success and artistic triumphs. I've had the love of my life. I see no reason to go on."
     Halsted was the 'sensitive type', a liberated "fag-ass faggot", an avid gardener, a dabbler in Zen, mysticism and astrology but into being a sadist and into outrageousness in general. An enigma to many interviewers.
     His interview with Paul Alcuin is brimming with bluster, bravado and metaphysics. He claimed that orgasm was not his reason for sex but rather the psychology of it. While he practiced sadism on his tricks, he felt that he was leading them on to a greater understanding of themselves but that 80% of them couldn't get it.
     Halsted owned a bar in Los Angeles where A Night at Halsted's was filmed. He also did some stage (News for Tennessee, with Joey), film work (Scoring, aka Dribble) and printed a periodical in 1976 called Package.
     Director Steve Scott described him as having "so much magnetism it leaped off the screen and knocked you out of your seat."

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Grant Fagan (Eric Lawerence Grant Fagan)

Grant Fagan (Eric Lawerence Grant Fagan)
51 years old - unknown
24 September 1966 (Ontario, California) - 7 December 2017 (North Hollywood, California)
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24 career film credits, 54 including compilations
I can't find much on Grant, but I'm still looking. I remember him from "The Pizza Boy He Delivers" in his two scenes with David Ashfield. And then there's the first scene in "The Young and the Hung" where he flip flops with Christopher Lance.

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J.W. King (James Leonard Waldrop)

J.W. King (James Leonard Waldrop)
31 years old - complications of AIDS
21 July 1955 (Dallas, Texas) - 15 December 1986 (Los Angeles, California)
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40 career film credits, 71 including compilations
One of the most popular and well liked stars of the 80s. Onetime Playgirl model and a very popular gay porn performer. For a few videos in 1983, Gold Rush Boys and Tightropes at the Officers Club, King sported a beard. He looked very good with it but never appeared with one again. Sometimes billed as the older brother of Jon King, which he was not. Higgins said he was a very sweat guy who never bottomed on film but probably did in real life.

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Jake Corbin (John Michael Avino)

Jake Corbin (John Michael Avino)
29 years old - complications of AIDS
7 July 1963 (Pawtucket, Rhode Island) - 15 September 1992 (Pawtucket, Rhode Island)
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19 career film credits, 24 including compilations
     Erotic film actor and dancer Jake Corbin died in his Rhode Island home after a long battle with AIDS. He had moved home from New York City in January 1992 to be with his family after a bout with pneumonia.
     Born in Pawtucket, RI, and raised in Providence, the young Avino joined the Army after high school but got his pay docked for punching a sergeant. At a clinic a nurse suggested he dance at a local nightclub, and a career was born. Jake got out of the service by sleeping with a colonel and continued dancing and stripping in New York City, where he moved in 1988.
     He toured the country in gay clubs as a stripper, using his new name Jake Corbin, which he took from a movie credit. Known for his frequent appearances on The Robin Byrd Show, Corbin also worked as a hustler and wasn't at all embarrassed to tell funny stories about "the business". His oddball wit was furthered by his street tough New England accent. Corbin starred in porn films Screen Test II, Cruisin' Il: Men on the Make and Secret Asian Man, as well as Christopher Rage tapes.
     While involved with ACT UP/NY for years, Jake participated in many demonstrations at New York's state capitol in Albany, as well as New York City Hall, South Carolina, the International AIDS Conference in Montreal and St. Patrick's Cathedral. He stripped at many AIDS fundraisers, wowing the crowds with his lithe body and creative performance style. His lightning bolt butt tattoo and matching nipple ring were his trademark.

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Jamoo

Jamoo

Jamoo (Gary Robert Whitaker)
26 years old - overdose
7 July 1963 (Wichita Falls, Texas) - 15 September 1992 (West Hollywood, California)
Buried in Iowa Park, Texas, just a couple of miles from where he grew up
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38 career film credits, 68 including compilations
     Gay porn star Jamoo died from a drug overdose. He was 26. Investigators are still determining whether the OD was accidental or deliberate.
     Jamoo was a native of Texas. He had a mixed-race background, having French, German, Black, Cherokee, Spanish (all from his mother) and Irish (from his father) heritage. Jamoo often wrote about his childhood and his experiences with racism and poverty, and he had a life-long fascination with men with mixed racial and ethnic backgrounds. His closest friends were gay porn stars with varied racial backgrounds (like Talvin DeMachio). His idol was gay porn director Kristen Bjorn, who often features multi-racial men in his films.
     Jamoo saw the television movie "Shattered Innocence" (about straight porn starlet Shauna Grant's suicide) when he was 15, and told his mother he wanted to be a porn star. He managed to get his first issue of "Advocate Men" a year later. The hard-core sexuality depicted in the magazine helped frame his burgeoning homosexuality. Photos by Kristen Bjorn were showcased in the magazine, and it was through these images that Jamoo discovered that other men had foreskins and were mixed-race just as he was. At the age of 17, Jamoo obtained a copy of Bjorn's seminal film "Caribbean Beat," which helped to further raise his awareness of his racial background and sexuality.
     Jamoo wrote his first published piece of fiction at the age of 17. The short story was "Screwing Sergeant Steiner"; it appeared a year later in "Advocate Men" magazine in November, 1992. Jamoo left home in 1992 at the age of 18 and moved to Los Angeles. According to the myth Jamoo himself told repeatedly, he was "a virgin with only $200 in his pocket" when he arrived there. He shortly began going to the gym, and having large amounts of sex. A year later, he was a gay porn star.
     Most of Jamoo's films were made during his first three years in the industry (1993-1995), when he worked primarily for now-defunct Planet Group. A top, Jamoo preferred working with multi-racial casts featuring hairy, uncut men. But Jamoo's on-set antics, his increasing inability to get an erection, and his drug use lost him work as time went by.
     Jamoo suffered from a two-year bout of depression that began in 1994, during which he largely withdrew from porn, friends, work and writing. His drug use increased dramatically in 1996, and he overdosed in August of that year. Friends say he began putting his life back together after the incident, but he continued to take drugs extensively. He continued to suffer from recurrent episodes of depression. Although his peers and friends held numerous interventions for him, Jamoo refused all their offers of help. In the last year or so, Jamoo had been stalked by a former assistant who had insinuated himself into his life and fallen in love with him. Jamoo struggled to rid himself of this man, and had to fight repeatedly to counter rumors and innuendo this individual spread about him.
     Jamoo was a difficult person to work with. His ego was over-sized and fragile, and he was touchy about his looks, weight and ability to get an erection. Industry insiders say he suffered from massive insecurity, and needed constant ego strokes to adequately perform on film. Jamoo was fond of wearing fur coats; when confronted by the un-PC nature of such actions, Jamoo countered with the narcissistic response: "I'm worth it." Jamoo often fought back viciously when he perceived he was being criticized; he published the real name of one performer he had fought with, and revealed that others abused steroids, alcohol and illegal drugs. He had largely been ostracized from the industry at the time of his death.
     Jamoo was the author of three books: "Superstars" (Companion Press, 1996), "The Films of Kristen Bjorn" (Companion Press, 1997) and "Superstars 2" (Companion Press, 1999). His most famous short story, "If New Orleans Were Paris," appeared in John Preston's edited anthology of gay erotic writing, "Flesh and the Word 2," in 1993. He had written it at the age of 17, and it originally appeared in "Daddy" magazine. Jamoo wrote for a number of gay adult magazines, including "BLACKfire," "BLK," "SLC," "Black and Gay," "Daddy," "Advocate Men" and "Freshmen." He had columns appear in "Freshmen," "Unzipped" and "Skinflicks" magazines.
     Jamoo's made an uncredited on-screen appearance in the documentary "101 Rent Boys" (produced and distributed by World of Wonder), which was released in 2000. It's made the rounds at various gay film festivals.
     When asked why porn is so important, Jamoo responded: "I think gay men rent so much porn because it's like watching God."
     Jamoo's ego and obnoxious behavior came across on film, even when he wasn't speaking. Others have suggested that Jamoo was driven to drugs because the "stress" of porn got to him. They suggest that when fans called him a "hooker" or "did sex for money," that this put pressure on him and led him to do drugs to excess. The problem is that Jamoo's drug use long preceded his porn work. Jamoo was a damaged human being, the harm having been done during his childhood. The shame is that he was never able to overcome that. Jamoo was a rotten human being, even so; I eye sceptically those many individuals today who shed tears for him and tut-tut over his death. There were a few people who did care for Jamoo, and I don't doubt their sincerity. But the rest are crying crocodile's tears.
     Tim Evanson

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Jeff Stryker (Charles Casper Payton)

Jeff Stryker (Charles Casper Payton)
Alive and Well
21 August 1962 (Springfield, Illinois)
36 career film credits, 56 including compilations
     Jeff Stryker grew up in Springfield, Illinois. His father was a car salesman and his mother was a nurse. He currently lives in California.
      Jeff Stryker worked as a stripper and delivered balloon-o-grams before a local photographer sent shots of him to gay adult film director John Travis in California, He lived with Travis for a year and a half and with Matt Sterling for a year and described both of them as his lovers. He claimed Rick Stryker as a younger brother. He describes himself (in a somewhat joking fashion) as sexually "universal".[5] He has also said, "I don’t define myself as anything."
      Styker worked with John Travis first on a scene in In Hot Pursuit but then did his first major work with Matt Sterling in Bigger Than Life. Sterling felt he saw a number of personas in Stryker, like Brando or Presley and tried to use him to that effect. He felt that Stryker had a natural screen presence (as opposed to acting ability) without ever having trained as an actor. Stryker's raunchy lines were unscripted and came on request but of surprising intensity–so much so that sometimes it needed to be edited down. By the time Stryker Force came around, Stryker had been coming across as very hard nosed so Sterling tried to get a softer Stryker in the last scene... as much as he could perform that way.
     Some of Jeff's biggest films include Powertool (1986) where he fucks Jeff Converse in scene 2 and Tony Bravo in scene 4. He also has two solo scenes in the film. Then came Stryker Force (1987). In one of the most famous scenes in gay porn history, Stryker leads comrades Robert Harris and Doug Corey in from the rain for a rest. The heat rises, and soon Harris is pleasing both hung studs, who take turns fucking him as the storm escalates.
     In 1989, there was The Look. In the opening scene, Jeff "punishes" Kevin Wiles and Ricky Turner in a workshop after they break a window.
     The Jeff Stryker Cock and Balls, a dildo fashioned from a cast of his penis, is widely sold in sex stores (Note: Yeah, I own one myself. It's huge!). The sex toy is notable not only for being popular, but also because Stryker and the manufacturer of the item litigated for the rights to its likeness as part of Stryker's intellectual property. The case eventually reached a mutually acceptable resolution (see § Legal Battles).[15] In a 1999 Salon article written by Jeff Stryker, a New York journalist and the porn actor's namesake, the dildo is even described as an object of higher culture.[16] It was mentioned in Allan Gurganus' 1997 novel Plays Well with Others, where the novel's narrator cleans up a closet filled with dildos, the premium find being "a Jeff Stryker, a monster, but somehow Roman in its genial fluted civic beauty."
     He has also worked as a non-pornographic actor, starring in a 1989 Italian-produced horror film called After Death (Revenge of the Zombies), in which he was credited as Chuck Peyton. Later in the American DVD release, the name Jeff Stryker was used as well. A trailer interview was added with Stryker describing the experience he had while shooting this movie in Manila. Stryker also starred in the short film by German cult director Rosa von Praunheim's Can I Be Your Bratwurst, Please? Stryker also appeared in a 1995 German television movie The Black Curse starring James Brolin, as well as the 1988 Italian feature Dirty Love.
     That's the run down on Jeff, one of the big, brutal tops of gay porn. A friend of mine met him during one of his appearances at a local gay bar. He describes Jeff as a heck of a nice guy.

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Jeff York (Harold Harris Gates, Jr)

Jeff York (Harold Harris Gates, Jr)
33 years old - complications of AIDS
15 December 1957 (unknown) - 26 October 1991 (Florida)
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2 career film credits, 2 including compilations
Harold was also a model for Colt Studio, and he also appeared in lots of gay-oriented ads of the time for phone lines and for men's clothing companies like All American Boy. He regularly competed in “hot guy” competitions including California's Supermen pageant.
Not much more that I could find about Harold. Did you know him? Do you know more about him? Let me know.

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Jeremy Scott (Troy Andrew Myers)

Jeremy Scott (Troy Andrew Myers)
32 years old - complications of AIDS
17 October 1961 (San Diego, California) - 28 May 1994 (Rockford, Illinois)
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40 career film credits, 63 including compilations
     Troy was raised in Los Angeles. He was sexually precocious, and was having sex with other boys and men by his early teens. Extremely well hung, he primarily bottomed. He had had no boyfriend or lover, but was well-versed in the gay world of restroom sex, public park sex, cruising, and so on. At least one person who knew him while he was still in high school has called him "a sex addict" because he was constantly seeking out sex with other men.
     Jeremy worked in the office of William Higgins for 3 years before getting in front of the camera. He ended up filling in for a no-show at the last minute. Higgins had his first relationship with a performer with Jeremy who was able to hold great sway over him. His appearance would change markedly from one film to another.
     His first film for Higgins was The Class of '84 Part One, where he does several solo scenes and a blow job scene. The last scene of the film where he flip flop fucks with Derrick Stanton.
     The following year he appeared in the William Higgins mega hit Pacific Coast Highway. He went on to perform in forty films during his career which came to an end in 1992. Among the standouts were Giants One where he does his best to swallow Rick Donovan's oversized ten inch hose and then they lie besides each other for a jack-off. Jeremy gives Rick's prong another go and then finds his ass can swallow more of it than his mouth.
     In the film Making It Huge in 1985 Jeremy is paired with Jim Bentley for the last scene. The director is over the top funny with his comments' "Just suck the dick." Jeremy and Jim exchange blow jobs then dissolve into a 69 which leads to Jememy eating Jim's ass. When the fucking is about to start, the camera man joins the scene and jacks off watching Jeremy plunder Jim's butt until Jim blows a big load on his stomach. Jeremy pulls out and adds a second load to Jim's tummy. The cameraman sends his cum in to join the others leaving Jim drenched in cum.
     Black Force is another standout interacial film where he gets fucked by the super hot black stud Ty Jones.
     Jeremy Scott had one of the best lines in porn. He told the other actor in the scene. Let's do 68. The other actor responds with 68? What's that? "That's where you blow me and I owe you one".

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Jesse Koehler (Richard Fred Kunze)

Jesse Koehler (Richard Fred Kunze)
32 years old - complications of AIDS
25 June 1957 (Oregon) - 17 July 1989 (Colfax, Washington)
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28 career film credits, 40 including compilations
Richard served in the Navy and was a competitive surfer. As an artist he worked in illustrations and ceramics. His son was 6 years old at the time of his death. And that's all I can find about Jesse Kohler. Know something about him and want to share? Please get in touch.

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Jim Bentley (James Eugene Bending)

Jim Bentley (James Eugene Bending)
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell
Born 24 May 1960
72 career film credits, 169 including compilations
     Though physically he embodied the Falcon Studios ideal of a gay porn stud, he was no cardboard figure. Interviews from the period reveal a likable person with a healthy, tongue-in-cheek sense of humor and a refreshing honesty. Jim Bentley was a versatile, cocky, blond twink. Highly popular, he was on the cover of every major gay porn magazine at one point or another.
     His first film for Falcon was in 1984, Splash Shots 1 Memories of Summer where in one scene he fucks Kevin Jenson and the very next scene he gets fucked by Giorgio Canali. During that scene, he mutters, "You're killing me," he made you believe it! The following scene he takes turns with Brian Maxon fucking Kurt Marshall.
     Jim did eight films in 1988, including several bi-sexual films, but the stand out gay film was Spokes 2 The Graduation where he appears in every scene sometimes fucking and other times getting fucked while flip flop fucking too. Some big stars appear in the films including super hung Chad Douglas, Chris Williams, Eric Manchester, Casey Jordan and more.
     1995 was a prolific year for Jim appearing in thirteen films. It was 2005 when Jim appeared in Splash Shots 3 To the Hilt. He shows up for the orgy scene at the end of the film and fucks Brad Benton. This would be Jim's last film.
     Some tidbits from an interview in Male Review:
     What was the most tempting offer you've ever had from a fan?
     A really handsome man came up to me a Greg's, said “Are you Jim Bentley? And immediately gave me the biggest lip-lock, and I loved it! He reached out and took what he wanted. He was only in town one night, so he took me back to his hotel. Fortunately, it was the Beverly Wilshire.
     Who is your fantasy co-star of the existing porn stars?
     I'm usually the top, but I'd like to have someone just take my ass down on screen, I'm not sure who. It's a difficult question to answer. I'd say Al Parker.
     Do you show your own tapes to your friends?
     Yes, I see it first with a friend. I never watch it alone. I have a couple of friends who will tell me the truth.
     And from Inches magazine, here's another fun fact: He used to sell figs for living. Yes, figs, of all fruit, a Biblical one!
     He went from figs to bigs, that is, being one of the bigs in the gay porn world during a exciting and frightening time: a gay sexual liberation, revealed in well-produced, well-acted films that revealed the power and beauty of gay sexual expression; and, simultaneously, the AIDS crisis which would decimate the actors in those films.
     Where is he today? He did not die like so many of his generation, but lived, and wrote an autobiography, The Last Time I Drew A Crowd (currently unavailable on Amazon). I hear he is still working with figs.
     He's still alive (at least he was in 2008) when he posted on Yahoo to his fans "I am alive and well and living in California. I am really looking forward to hearing from all of you. I am single and still gorgeous."

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Jim Moore (Ken Joseph Savoie)

Jim Moore (Ken Joseph Savoie)
27 years old - complications of AIDS
14 November 1961 (Marrero, Louisiana) - 28 November 1988 (San Franciso, California)
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10 career film credits, 17 including compilations
Ken's first film was in 1982 in an uncredited role for Fox Studio. It was three years later that he appeared in his second movie, In Heat as Cody Richards where he is fucked in the last scene by Matt Pierce. He went on to bottom in eight more films. His last film, Powerline in 1989, where he bottomed for John Davenport. More informataion about Ken as I get it. Knew him? Know more about Ken? Let me know.

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Joey Mills (Matthew William Cooksey)

Joey Mills (Matthew William Cooksey)
Alive and Well
Born 20 May 1998 in Pacific, Missouri (a surburb of St Louis)
68 career film credits, 155 On-Line Episodes (as of Jan 2026)
     Joey Mills is one of the most recognizable twinks in the adult entertainment industry and has over 17.1K followers on X (@joeymills_02).
     Joey worked when he young as a pizza delivery man, despite not liking pizza. At the urging of a friend, he submitted his entry to Helix Studios. He began his career in the gay porn industry on 19 July 2016 in "Twink Legend Justin Owens Drills Joey Mills," an on-line Helix Episode. The by-line for the scene: "It's a piping hot piping when resident jock top & sweet talking slice of beefcake, Justin Owen breaks in cute af, new twink on the block, 'Jailbait' Joey Mills in the 18 year old's first ever scene at Helix."
     Joey worked almost exclusively for Helix Studios. In 2019 he expanded and started working for Men.com too. While mostly a bottom on camera, Joey tops occasionally too. In 2020 he was nominated for the Str8UpGayPorn award for best favorite duo with JJ Knight.
     He was the co-author of the book "Electric Soul", published by Helix Studios in 2019.
     Joey is gay and was in a relationship with fellow actor Ashton Summers. He is gay and he was in a relationship with Ashton Summers.

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Joey Stephano (Nicholas Anthony “Nicky” Iacona Jr.)

Joey Stephano (Nicholas Anthony “Nicky” Iacona Jr.)

Joey Stefano (Nicholas Anthony “Nicky” Iacona Jr.)
26 years old - overdose
1 January 1968 (Chester, Pennsylvania) - 21 November 1994 (Hollywood, California)
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71 career film credits, 209 including compilations
     Nicky was found dead in a Hollywood Boulevard motel room, his system overloaded with a mixture of cocaine, morphine, heroin, and ketamine. Most consider his death the result of an accidental overdose.
     Over the course of his five-year career, Nicky appeared in 58 gay adult films and two music videos with Madonna. He was considered to be the perfect power bottom.
     Born to middle-class parents in Chester, Pennsylvania, on January 1, 1968, Nicholas Anthony Iacono had an older sister, Linda, and a younger sister, Tina. At age 15 he dropped out of high school -- at about the same time his father died -- and began to experiment with drugs as well as engage in "street hustling." In 1989, at the age of 21, he moved to Los Angeles and quickly became involved in the rapidly-expanding world of gay videos. Standing 5' 11" and weighing 165 pounds, his good looks and pleasing physique soon made him a porn star under the name "Joey Stefano." By some accounts he earned $100,000 in the year 1990, making as much as $1500 for a single sex scene. (Significantly, Nicky almost always played the "bottom" role in these scenes, making him unique in a genre filled with performers who would only play "top.") He did not handle his finances well, however, and had no long-range plans to manage his career, usually being content to accept whatever was offered to him. Soon his career began to fade, though his drug habit continued, and late in 1990 he tested as HIV positive. Hoping to revive his fortunes, Nicky began to tour the country, dancing and stripping at gay nightclubs and offering himself as a paid "escort." Eventually he returned to L.A. where, on November 26, 1994, at the age of 26, he was found dead in a Hollywood Boulevard motel room, his system overloaded with a mixture of cocaine, morphine, heroin, and ketamine. Most consider his death the result of an accidental overdose. He is buried next to his father at Immaculate Heart of Mary Catholic Cemetery Linwood, Delaware County, Pennsylvania, USA In 1996 Charles Isherwood published a biography of this gay icon titled "Wonder Bread and Ecstasy."

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Joey Yale (Joseph Richard Yanoska)

Joey Yale (Joseph Richard Yanoska)
36 years old - complications of AIDS
25 December 1949 (Lynch, Kentucky) - 18 April 1986 (Palm Springs, California)
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5 career film credits, 6 including compilations
     Adult Film Actor.Joey was born Joseph Richard Yanoska in Lynch, Kentucky and grew up in Indianapolis. He worked under the stage name Joey Yale. He started his career in the original "Disney on Parade," the original traveling roadshow, all over the states. Joey played Mowgli, "The Jungle Boy", in a black wig and red diaper. He left Indianapolis when he was seventeen, with $100 in his pocket.
     He met gay porn director Fred Halsted outside a leather bar in West Hollywood, in 1969. They became lovers and later Fred convinced him to star in his first porn, L.A. Plays Itself. Joey filmed most of the work, but halfway through the film, he had such indecision about what he was doing that he backed out of the project. They split, Fred being really upset with him.
     Several years later, however, that relationship was rekindled, and Joey and Fred became business and personal partners. They lived together for many years in a West Hollywood apartment. Their partnership included their gay porn company "Cosco".
     Joey's career was greatly bolstered by several performances with veteran actor Brett Mahoney of New York. Their relationship offscreen, however, was violent. After the infamous scene where Joey brutalizes Brett in several ways, they never talked again. David "The Dick" Clements also helped to boost his career. They enjoyed nights of wine and 3-way sex with Dom "lil D" Izzo. They all loved S&M.
     In July 1983, Joey performed with John Holmes in one of Holmes' gay films, The Private Pleasures of John C. Holmes. At the time Yale had already contracted AIDS, and died three years later of complications, on a hill in Palm Springs, California. He was cremated and his ashes were spread on that same hill overlooking the town of Palm Springs, the place he loved. Soon after, his lover Fred Halsted committed suicide.

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Jon King (John Nelson Gaines)

Jon King (John Nelson Gaines)
32 years old - complications of AIDS
12 January 1963 (Jacksonville, Florida) - 8 March 1995 (Santa Fe, New Mexico)
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33 career film credits, 63 including compilations
     John was mostly raised in Florida, and rarely spoke about his childhood. He did admit that he was constantly in trouble, though. When he was 12 years old, he found a Playboy magazine belonging to his father, and became fascinated with porn. While in his teens, he read about Jack Deveau -- legendary owner of Hand In Hand Films (one of the earliest gay porn studios). He had some dark, fuzzy photos of his nude teenage body taken and he sent them to Deveau. Deveau politely turned him down. The family moved to Atlanta when he was starting high school.
     After graduating from high school in Atlanta, Georgia, King and his then-lover (a boy he'd met in high school) moved to West Hollywood. King fully intended to return to Florida to go to college, but instead his lover and he decided they were "going places" and King did not return. Adult film star Jamie Wingo met him while cruising at a West Hollywood adult bookstore. Wingo was headed to a photographer's studio later that afternoon to do some nude stills, and King tagged along. The photographer got King into gay porn.
     He made his first movie, Brothers Should Do It, opposite J.W. King to whom he bore a remarkable resemblance. J.W. King was an established star, and Gaines was given the moniker "Jon King" in order to imply they were incestuous. Director William Higgins wanted his name spelled "John," but King insisted it be spelled "Jon." When the two performers met on the set of the film, they tore one another's clothes off. J.W. had his huge cock up Jon's ass within 30 seconds, plowing him viciously, turning him over, pumping in and out of him like a horse. Higgins shouted at them to stop, as he hadn't loaded the film camera yet. They ignored him. They pounded at one another for an hour, until finally both man ejaculated several times. They put their clothes back on, and repeated the sex act for Higgins so that he could capture those first, sizzling moments. Their cocks were never anything less than steel-hard, even though both men had cum many times by now.
     King was not a nice person to be around. Higgins called him "a monster". (On the other hand, King called Higgins "a psycho" and said he never paid him for the film.) Many people King worked with said he was bitchy, high-maintenance, fought (sometimes physically) with other people, and stole things from sets. He often complained he had never been paid what he was worth, although he never seemed to say so during contract talks.
     Jon King made several other films in quick succession and then returned to Florida in 1982. He got an apartment in Gainesville, but was evicted in June. In late September 1982, he stole a car from a sales lot, robbed a Burger King, and then wrecked the car. He was arrested, tried, convicted, and spent 11 months in a state prison. He was reluctant to talk about his prison experiences. He said they were "not fun". He spent his 20th birthday behind bars.
     He went back to California in 1983 to resume his adult film career. He stopped making films in 1990 after discovering he had HIV. King moved to Atlanta and attended culinary school for two years while working in restaurants, satisfying a lifelong interest in gourmet cooking. A short-lived comeback attempt in 1993-1994 produced two final films, Wild Country and These Bases Are Loaded 2. (Another film, Pumping Iron, was made at this time but not released until after his death in 1995.)
     His health deteriorated in 1994, and he stopped working as a chef. He moved to Santa Fe, New Mexico, and was cared for by a friend. He spent the final five months of his life at Hope House Hospice. He died of complications from AIDS on March 8, 1995. Memorial services were held in Santa Fe and Jacksonville. His dog, Bucky, had been run over by a car two weeks prior to King's death. King and his dog were both cremated, and their ashes scattered together over the Atlantic Ocean. He was survived by his parents and a sister.
     He once told an interviewer that he hated being recognized and approached in public. He even quit going to gay bars because he disliked it so much. He said fans didn't want to know John Gaines, they only wanted to know Jon King. He never had any long-term relationships. By all accounts, he went through lovers like a man with a cold uses Kleenex.
     Source: tim1965

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Jon Vincent (Jeffrey James Vickers)

Jon Vincent (Jeffrey James Vickers)
37 years old - overdose
17 December 1962 (Baton Rouge, Louisiana) - 3 May 2000 (New York, New York)
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40 career film credits, 111 including compilations
     Jon Vincent was born Jeffrey James Vickers on December 17, 1962, in New Orleans, Louisiana. He grew up in Baton Rouge, where he discovered his athletic talent, especially for baseball. At 20, an interview with the Kansas City Royals seemed like his chance for a professional athletic career, but his penchant for partying undid him at the tryouts. He never played baseball again. In- stead. he drifted to Houston, where he discovered his lifelong athletic passion, bodybuilding. Two years later, he moved to California.
     Jon Vincent was a native of Baton Rouge, Louisiana, and attended LSU on a baseball scholarship. After LSU, he had a brief professional career with the Kansas City Royals and that career and Jon's first marriage to a woman was ended due to Jon's drug use. Jon moved to the West Coast, and got into hustling and eventually into porn films around 1987. In porn films, he was invariably a top, and he was much in demand due to his remarkable talent for dirty talk.
     To say that Jon was conflicted would be a major understatement. The general persona conveyed in his films was that of a mildly homophobic "gay for pay" performer. But there was more to it. Jon was probably bisexual, but I think his "gay side" only increased his self-hatred. He had been sexually abused repeatedly by a neighbor when he was five years old. And his chronic substance abuse (everything from alcohol to heroin) further complicated the situation. Projected onto this background was a secret love affair with Joey Stefano, who also was a chronic substance abuser.
     Jon's continued substance abuse and the lack of any meaningful counseling or psychotherapy led to the inevitable. Jon died in 2000 of an accidental overdose of intentionally-ingested heroin and cocaine.
     He said he was sexually abused as a child. He had a son who was 19 at the time of his father's death. In a Manshots interview he identified himself as gay, other times as bisexual. He had been a Chipendale's dancer.
     Awards - 1993 Gay Erotic Video Awards Best Groaner: Idol Thoughts

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Johnny Dawes (Brian Lee)

Johnny Dawes (Brian Lee)
34 years old - complications of AIDS
22 March 1955 (Akron, Ohio) - 25 July 1989 (Los Angeles, California)
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27 career film credits, 41 including compilations
     Brian graduated high School in 1971. He moved to Los Angeles, due to his love of movies, where he started out as a dancer in an all male erotic revue at the Beverly Cinema in 1973. This led to Lee’s career in gay adult movies in the late 1970’s.
     His career in gay porn started in the late seventies, was in a loop called “Toilet Training,: part of Falcon Video Pac #23. Acccording to Gay Erotic Video Index, in 1978, he made a film for Falcon Studios, Dirt Bikes, aka F Truck.
     Thus began a prodigious career for many studios, pretty much the major ones of the late 1970s and 1980s, such as HIS Video, LeSalon, Mustang, and Marathon, and and other less known ones such as Ari Productions and Stardust.
     Paired together six times, Chris Burns has had the privilege of being seen most frequently with Johnny Dawes, in flicks such as Pleasure Beach (HIS Video).
     The collection of movies in which they have appeared together also includes The Private Pleasures of John Holmes (Stardust), To Catch a Thief (HIS Video), and Revenge of the Nighthawk in Leather (HIS Video).
     Dawes retired in 1986, but came out of retirement in 1989, to make several films. In fact, a vintage gay porn magazine of that period, Thrust, celebrates his return, “the return of a bluemovie sensation,” in Who's Dat Boy.
     Aside from his adult film work, Brian acted in the Los Angeles production of Robert Chesley's AIDS play Night Sweat at the Fifth Estate Theatre. He was also a documentary filmmaker (A Dance with Death) and an opera historian who wrote articles for Opera Digest and, most interestingly, an opera historian. He wrote an article on the Jewish-American soprano Alma Gluck, who sang at the beginning of the last century, for Opera Digest.

The End of October
Halloween has come and gone
And comes November's chilly dawn;
Where's the summer sunlight now
That gleamed do brightly 'neath thy brow?
It's gone, it's gone,
It's dead and cold;
It was a love that grew too old.
Like summer, seasons pass along;
At once they're here, at once they're gone.
Johnny Dawes (Brian Lee)

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Johnny Harden (Howard Eugene O'Leary)

Johnny Harden (Howard Eugene O'Leary)
67 years old - Accident-Cocaine Toxicity
30 Januaey 1956 (Washington State) - 27 February 2023 (Los Angeles, California)
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11 career film credits, 13 including compilations
     Oleary’s death was unceremoniously reported via a blurb on Hollywood L.A. News, which guessed, “We’re assuming he’s of Irish descent and that his proper family name is O’Leary.”
     It was an ignominious end for a straight-identified man who had, for a few years from about 1977 to about 1984, been one of the most vivacious faces of lust in the worlds of gay and straight porn.
     So, how did famous sex star Johnny Harden wind up dying without anybody noticing?
     There was a time when porn stars truly were stars.
     Now, anyone with a phone can become an internationally known sex symbol, but back in 1977, when 21-year-old Howard O’Leary made his debut in an X-rated short called Moving Parts, the idea that he might soon become a gay-household name probably did not occur to him. Not only were sex stars rarely famous at that point, his first work was in straight movies.
     Still, even when he was banging girls, he exploded with ropes of star quality that gay fans could not help noticing.
     Howard — who went by the on-the-nose moniker “Johnny Harden” when selling his image to guys and by the equally literal “Gene Carrier” when appealing to women — truly was a filmic god. The total package, including having one of porn’s biggest packages, he really seemed as if he had sprung from the collective gay imagination.
     Straight porn simply wasn’t big enough to contain him.
     Following the money by entering the queer arena, Harden stood out from the pack of men who got in on the ground floor of XXX right as VCRs made porn as easily available as a quart of milk, not only thanks to his double-take equipment — he also had fashion-model looks, huge eggs, a killer pre-BBL ass, a merciless tan line and, more than all of that, gave feverish performances. All those other porn guys were just as young and sexy, but Johnny and the camera were obsessed with each other.
     An instant star with gay studios Colt and Falcon, he never phoned in a performance, captivating with passionate self-sucks, a neat trick that would have been wasted on the straight audience. But he was his own best co-star, so while Johnny alone was a 21-gun salute, Johnny with another guy was more of a shotgun wedding.
     Even though his interactions with other men went no further than some near-miss receptive oral (he did once bite a guy’s butt tentatively to show he was good people), he was still an in-demand model in the gay market.
     Falcon photographer Fred Bisonnes says Harden during this period was hard to work with, in part because he couldn’t get it up. Harden was a natural for a gay audience, but he wasn’t gay himself and couldn’t perform on cue, which is probably why he only appeared in a handful of gay films — and never offered full sex in them.
     But when he was on, he was on.
     In Johnny Harden and the Champs (1978), Johnny struts into frame with supreme confidence in his tennis togs, strips while making eye contact and plays with himself, all the while exuding a kind of hedonistic rapture akin to Marilyn Monroe getting her skirt blown up in The Seven Year Itch (1955). All alone, he’s clearly as thrilled to be spending time with THE Johnny Harden as we all were when we first saw the film.
     In fact, he literally fucks himself in that film, the forever-perfect union of a star and his biggest fan.
     In other films, like Johnny Harden and Friends (1980), he consented to some frottage and mutual masturbation, but he was still trading on being trade. Though he couldn’t get it up reliably, there was a porn premium placed on straight men who acted as if they could be … persuaded. A classic porn trope, he worked it effortlessly, suggesting he would have been hard to beat as a gay-baiting Instagram stud had he been born 45 years later.
     Of course, as out of his element as he was around other dicks, he loved women, and he went much further in straight porn, as in Diamond Collection classics like Western Sailor (1981), in which he borrows an outfit from the Cracker Jack mascot to perform cunnilingus on a sleeping nympho. “There’s nothin’ like eatin’ a girl out when she doesn’t know it,” his character observes.
     We said it was a different time, we never implied it was always better.
     With women, Harden did full penetration, and in one scene even dressed in drag as part of a storyline in which his character was pulling a Some Like It Hot to get closer to a smokin’ girl.
     The unusual thing about Harden’s straight work is it had considerable gay crossover appeal, and not because of the drag. Some of his early films for Diamond Collection were shot like today’s Straight Guys for Gay Eyes films — porn featuring straight couples in which the camera lingers on every nook and cranny of the men.
     He couldn’t help it if he was prettier than most of his leading ladies.
     In spite of making some potent appearances, he might have vanished in the collective queer imagination were it not for his prowess as a print model. As electrifying as his video work was, whether alone or with a lucky girl and her underpaid jaw, Harden really came alive on the covers of gay smut mags, including some devoted entirely to him. The magazine version of Johnny Harden and Friends changes hands for $100, even in the 2025 economy. The Big Beautiful Bill has nothing on Johnny’s Big Beautiful Drill.
     After planting a rumor that Johnny Harden had died in a car crash and assuming the persona of Gene Carrier, our anti-hero became a legit model for a spell, including — reportedly — for Dior, Gaultier, Mugler and others. He probably hoped to do more of that, but his image in porn blew up and may have hindered him in that regard. It’s hard to say, as he did model successfully for several years after leaving the industry — including for the esteemed First Models and Ford.
     If porn did hold him back (his reported height of 5’8” could not have helped either), it’s a shame, because whether oozing pretty-boy heterosexuality as Playgirl’s Man for September 1980 for photographer Suze Randall or serving as an extra-handsome mannequin in ads hawking menswear, he knew how to sell stuff with his eyes.
     He clearly could make the fashions of the nine-teen-eigh-eigh-ties look good, but he still had the air of a man whose clothes would look better on the floor.
     Article by Matthew Rettenmund

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Johnny Rahm (Barry Thomas

Johnny Rahm (Barry Thomas "JT" Rogers)
39 years old - suicide
11 June 1965 (Milledgeville, Georgia) - 7 November 2004 (Atlanta, Georgia)
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103 career film credits, 176 including compilations
     Barry, a native of Baldwin County, was a graduate of Gilead Christian Academy in Macon, Georgia and also attended Bob Jones University. Among his various activities, he worked with the Jerry Lewis Muscular Dystrophy Telethon.
     Barry relocated to California in the late 1980s and worked for nearly a decade in the adult film industry. He was the winner of the 1993 Gay Video Guide’s Best Supporting Actor Award for his role as a mafia don in “Body Search,” directed by Chi Chi LaRue. He also won the 1995 Best Supporting Actor award for “All About Steve.” He also was employed at Drakes Melrose, Pier One Imports, and worked as a barback for the Atlanta club, "The Metro".
     Barry committed suicide by hanging himself with wire on the fence of the Atlanta Botanical Garden.
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Washington Blade
By DYANA BAGBY
Friday, November 26, 2004
     ATLANTA — Barry “J.T.” Rogers, known as Johnny Rahm in scores of gay pornographic films, committed suicide in Atlanta on Nov. 7. He was 39.
     Rogers hung himself with a wire on the fence line of the Atlanta Botanical Garden, according to the Atlanta Police Department.
     A memorial service was held Sunday, Nov. 21, said Adam Kahn, Rogers’ friend and roommate.
     Rogers was born June 11, 1965, in Milledgeville, Ga. He was buried there next to his grandmother on Nov. 10, said Jamey Rousey, Rogers’ cousin. Rousey said he was very close to his grandmother.
     Rogers, who was HIV-positive, is survived by his parents, two sisters and a brother, according to Rousey.
     Rousey said he and Rogers were raised fundamental Baptists and attended a Christian high school in Macon and also attended Bob Jones University in Greenville, S.C.
     “He was a kind and gentle soul and as tragic as his death was, I hope he’s found the peace he couldn’t find in life,” said Rousey, who works with the Atlanta AIDS Partnership Fund.
     Rogers moved to California in the late 1980s and worked for about a decade in the gay sex film industry, Rousey said. In recent years he worked in Atlanta with producer Dick Wadd, according to Kahn.
     Rogers was the winner of the 1993 Gay Video Guide’s Best Supporting Actor Award for his role as a mafia don in “Body Search,” directed by gay porn favorite Chi Chi LaRue. He also won the 1995 Best Supporting Actor award for “All About Steve.”
     “He was a sweet guy, a very loving, caring person — although he had his demons,” Kahn said. “Within five minutes of meeting him, people loved him. He was always the comedian and wanted to make people laugh and feel good about themselves.”
     J.C. Adams, a columnist who writes about the gay sex industry in “Adams Report,” said that as Johnny Rahm, Rogers had a devoted fan base.
     “What was a little unusual about him is that he was actually a very good actor,” Adams said. “He never became a superstar like Jeff Stryker, but he did several films that are still remembered.”
     Some of Rogers’ better movies include “The Devil and Danny Webster,” “Straight to the Zone,” and “Badlands,” said Adams, who has also been editor of Inside Porn Magazine and Unzipped Monthly.
     “He knew how to use his voice and body. As a sexual performer, Johnny told me he really enjoyed what he was doing. He was having fun and that came through onscreen,” Adams said. “That is one of the main reasons fans adored him and remembered him through the years; Johnny’s light and spirit was evident.”
     Kahn said Rogers was never shy about what he did professionally and also tried his hand at stand-up comedy. But while he may have achieved some fame in the gay sex film industry, he struggled financially in his last months. Since about April, Rogers was trying to get financial assistance to find his own home, Kahn said.
     “He was on the phone every day trying to get SSI and it seemed like he kept getting the runaround. His major frustration was not being settled,” Kahn said. “He never did anything bad except to himself.
     “He wasn’t your run-of-the-mill porn actor. The biggest part of him was making sure everyone around him was happy. He will be greatly missed,” Kahn said.
     Adams interviewed Rogers in 2001 and said Rogers was truly humbled when he read him some of his fan mail.
     “It’s good to know that I made a difference to some gay guys out there,” Rogers told Adams, “even if it was inadvertent. I feel honored to have that kind of devotion.”
There was also this letter to the Washington Blade:
     As the brother of the late Barry “Johnny Rahm” Rogers, I felt compelled to write you after reading the article about his suicide. (“Former gay porn star commits suicide,” news, Nov. 26).
     To those who knew Barry (“J.T.”), he’s remembered as a fun person to be around. He could walk into a room filled with 1,000 people, and walk out with 999 friends. I remember him as the big brother who protected and comforted me during our childhood. I miss him terribly, and his passing has left an unfillable void in my heart.
     Your article alluded to the speculation that his role as Johnny Rahm factored in his decision to end his life. After retrieving his personal belongings, and spending countless hours reading his personal journal, I can say that nothing in his writings offered the faintest hint that his on-camera role had anything to do with his suicide.
     His journals, as well as his suicide note, offered overwhelming evidence that it was because he was turned down repeatedly by Social Security for disability benefits. Barry suffered for years from severe depression. He had also been diagnosed with Hepatitis C. The Hep C treatments couldn’t begin until the depression was under control, and that never came about. He was depressed about his inability to be self-sufficient. He was depressed due to his deteriorating health condition. He was depressed because he had nowhere to call “home.”
     There are several government entities that I hold responsible for his depression, and subsequent death, but I do not think that his role as Johnny Rahm had anything whatsoever to do with it.
     To those who had the honor of calling J.T. “friend,” his loss is felt tremendously, and I thank each of you for taking care of my brother during his final weeks and months. For those of us who had the privilege of calling him son, brother or cousin, his loss is one that can never be replaced, and it will take a long time to get over it. To those who simply knew him as “Johnny Rahm,” you didn’t know the true Barry/JT, and the loss is yours.
SCOTTY ROGERS
Washburn, Tenn.

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Johnny Rey (Rhett Palmer)

Johnny Rey (Rhett Palmer)

Johnny Rey (Rhett Elliott Palmer)
42 years old - complications of AIDS
13 November 1963 (Palm Springs, California) - 18 January 2006 (Pomona, California)
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79 career film credits, 111 including compilations, directed 25 films
     Performer and director Johnny Rey died on January 18th at just 42 years of age. Cancer and various illnesses related to AIDS was the cause. At the time of his death he was living with his family in Pomona, California and they were with him at the time of his death. Johnny's ex-boyfriend Dino Phillips was able to visit with him prior to his passing, and confirmed some of these details.
     A very popular performer in the 1990s, Rey also had a career as porn film director. One of his last appearances was in 1999's Nude Science for performer/director Dino Phillips' company, Great Dane Productions. He fucked Peter Wilder in that film.
     A prolific performer, Rey appeared in dozens of movies, including Male Triangle whre he got fucked by Chip Daniels, Midnight Run where he sucks a load out of an unidentified cock in a glory hole, Posing Strap where he bottoms for Matt Diez, Romeo and Julian where he fucked Grant Larson in the first scene. Grant went on to win the 1993 Adult Video News Best Erotic Scene for his performance with Johnny. He also appeared in Toilet Tramps where he and Johnny Rahm were both fucked by Derick Cruise, and While I Was Sleeping where he gets fucked by J.T. Sloan.      His awards include the 1993 Adult Video News Best Actor for Romeo & Julian: A Love Story. The 1993 Adult Video News Best Erotic Scene again for Romeo & Julian: A Love Story. Later in 1996, he was awarded Men in Video Awards Hottest Cocksucker Award.
     More as it becomes available.

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Joshua Berlin (Sean Michael Moss)

Joshua Berlin (Sean Michael Moss)
27 years old - drowning
9 February 1983 (Nebraska) - 26 January 2011 (Denver, Arapahoe County, Colorado)
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13 career film credits, 16 including compilations
      Joshua Berlin (real name Sean Michael Moss) was found in the South Platte River, having drowned. Investigators were not able to determine whether his death was a suicide, an accident or a homicide. Autopsy reports showed he had meth and the club drug GHB (the date rape drug) in his system when he died and that the drugs were “significant contributing conditions.” The report also states that Moss once had attempted suicide.
     A Memorial Service was held on what would have been his 28th birthday, February 9 2011 at the Metropolitan Community Church of the Rockies.
     Former Sheriff Pat Sullivan had so much intimate information about Sean that investigators at the Denver Medical Examiner’s Office contacted police and recommended that detectives talk to him.
     Sullivan’s role in the life and death of Sean is just one piece of the bizarre case of the longtime Arapahoe County sheriff, who was arrested after police said he tried to trade methamphetamine to a man in exchange for sex. The Chief Deputy Coroner confirmed that Moss had listed Sullivan as an emergency contact in his medical records. Staff members were struck by how much Sullivan knew about the young man.
     He told the investigator that Moss was gay, that he had grown up in Nebraska, that he had an argument with his roommate shortly before he was found dead and that his friends had been looking for him. Sullivan also knew details of Moss’ family and medical history. He said Moss had lost many of his teeth and that the former sheriff had paid for Sean's partial dentures.
     Cherry Creek School District officials have said Sullivan — then director of security for the district — helped Moss get a job there in 2007.
     Sean had a short career in the porn business starting in 2003 and ending in 2008. One of his first films was for In Touch titled In Touch Auditions 13 where performers were interviewed followed by a jack off scene. Another of his first was Riding Boys in Cars for All Worlds Video. He flip flop fucks in scene 2 with Christopher Michaels and flip flop fucks again in the last scene with Antonio Madiera. The rest of his porn career, which ended in 2008, was for the production company Pat and Sam.
     I can't let this end without mentioning Sean's bleach blond hair and really dark eyebrows. Yeah, the carpet didn't match the shades. It's sad that he ended up with a corrupt sherriff feeding him drugs for sexual favors. His drowning remains questionable as a suicide (doubtful), an accident or murder. Regardless, he is missed by fans, friends and family.

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Kevin Wiles

Kevin Wiles
Alive and Well
Born 29 November 1961 (Santa Clara, California)
32 career film credits, 58 including compilations
     This brunette twink with the blond highlights and the long, thick cock was a steady worker in the late 1980s and through the early 1990s. He was an A-list bottom, taking everyone from fratboy jocks like Chris Thompson and to well-hung top-men like Chad Douglas.
     Kevin Wiles always had that preppy boy-next-door look coupled with a slight smirk, as if he always knew just how to chew his thumb or look up through his eyebrows with the perfect subtle smile that would get daddy/cousin Jim/brother Michael/uncle Frank/the pizza boy/the frat brother/the trucker/the kid at the urinal to come over and fuck the living bejesus out of him.
     Kevin excelled at portraying snotty, preppy rich kids. In "Spring Break" (Falcon, 1988), he plays a country-club rich boy complete with an Izod shirt with an upturned collar. Although no one seems to like this arrogant little S.O.B., they go to his immense home for a soda when their tennis game is rained out. Wiles gets muscular brunette frat-boy Chris Thompson (then a real-life frat-boy at Southern Cal!) and mega-hung David Ashfield to plug his ass in the kitchen. It's a stunning scene. Wiles is astonishingly adept at sucking on Ashfield's humongous cock, and his moans are half-lusty, half-painful as he's plugged on the countertop.
     In "Big Guns," Wiles plays a closeted rich kid who visits wealthy neighbor Chad Douglas. Douglas greets him in a white terry-cloth robe and nothing else. The two sit on a sofa and sip iced tea while chatting. Wiles' eyes pop out of his head as Douglas' robe opens to permit his massive, 9" python to slide out under the glass-topped coffee table. As Douglas strokes his equine tool, Wile's own impressive manhood slides down the leg of his white trousers. Soon Wiles is deep-throating Douglas' monstrous organ. Wiles takes it twice from the Master: Once doggie-style, bent forward over a chair, and a second time missionary while lying on top of a credenza. Wiles' body writhes in painful delight as Douglas satisifes his lusts deep inside Wile's rectum.
     In "Behind Closed Doors" (Falcon, 1988), Wiles is a twink who, like everyone in the film, receives a mysterious invitation to "Falcon House." He works out lightly on a weight bench. Quarterback Tom Steele spies on him through a keyhole. Steele (none too hard, as in most of his films) plugs Wiles' bottom. The scene works solely because of Wiles and his ability to make you think that he's having the most outrageously pleasurable sex of his whole life -- even when the prick barely in his ass is about two-thirds flaccid.
     But Wiles could top, too. And how! In "Stiff Sentence" (In Hand, 1989), the highlight of the film is when porn veteran Chris Burns (a horny warden) takes two cocks up his ass at the same time -- David Ashfield's and Kevin Wiles' -- while sucking off Blake Cass. Wiles slides in alongside Ashfield's enormous boner, and fucks the living shit out of Burns. Double-penetration is not an easy maneuver, but Wiles looks like he was born doing it.
     Even better, Kevin Wiles had a nice cumshot. His orgasms were always intense, but when he would shoot five or six thick streams would issue from his bulbous knob. The streams would fly out a foot, a foot and a half. Kevin would hold his prick, maybe stroking it every so slightly or jiggling it, and pump those delicious, pure-white spurts. It was a thirsty man's dream come true.
     Wiles worked from 1984 to 1990. He did good work all through his career. You know a model is hitting the big-time when he gets a film dedicated to him ("Kevin Goes Wild," In Hand, 1989).
     Rumor had it that Kevin Wiles retired to his home town of Portland, Oregon. It was said that he could be found from time to time checking out the glory holes in local peep booths, sucking cock and getting sucked. He remained as twinky, as cute, as hung, as erect, as full of cum as ever. His personal life seemed to mirror his on-camera persona, as he appeared sex-hungry and eager no matter who stuck his cock through Kevin's glory hole.
     Makes a guy want to head for the City of Roses, it does.
     tim1965

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A Younger Kevin Williams

A Younger Kevin Williams

Kevin Williams (Theodore Currall)
60 years old
5 November 1965 (Santa Clara County, California)
Alive and well, best we can tell. Still Researching.
13 career film credits, 52 including compilations
     It all started in 1986 with the William Higgins film Screen Test 1 where Kevin gets shaved, followed by a dildo and finally getting fucked by Mike Hensen.
     1987 was a banner year for Kevin as he appeared in one bi-sexual and six films that would go on to be called classics. One of William Higgins most popular films was Big Guns. The classic scene has Kevin in a motel room getting seduced by Mike Henson acting as a masseur while John Davenport watches through a hidden camera. That scene is one of the most memorable Kevin Willims scenes.
     While that scene is smooth and sexy, Kevin's scene with Chad Douglas is just the opposite, raw sex. Kevin has hired Chad Douglas as his "at home" workout coach in the film In Your Wildest Dreams. Kevin does just as he is told for that monster cock that Chad has for him. He gets to suck Chad’s cock while he is on the rowing machine. Then he is bent over his bicep press to take all of Chad up his ass.
     [Note: This was the beginning of the safe-sex era. This scene includes a surprised Williams when Douglas injects him a second time with a syringe of lube which would have been nonoxynol-9, a spermicide that hopefully destroyed the HIV virus but later determined to be not effective enough.]
     In the film Stryker Force he is paired up with Steve Hammond, but it is actually Robert Harris that gives Kevin a good, rough fucking. In the film Out of Bounds, Kevin gets fucked by Jim Pulver's ten inck cock. This film also stars some of Falcon Studios heavy hitters of the day including Casey Jordan, Chris Williams, J.T. Denver and more.      1987 also was the year for Bad Boys Club where Kevin flip flop fucks with Steve Ross. Yes, Kevin tops! The film actually open with Kevin doing a solo by a waterfall.
     Bare Tales (1988) brought Kevin and Jim Pulver together again. Kevin, all blond, blue-eyed, naïve and hunky, comes by to visit Pulver's brother. Too bad he's away. Pulver lures Kevin in by letting his cock slip out of his tight gym shorts, and Kevin moves to the porch to suck Pulver's dong through the porch fence. They move to the bedroom and Kevin continues sucking while Pulver leans over, strips him, and (surprise!), moves in on Kevin's hard, long, fat and waiting cock. There's some cute come-on dialogue here while Pulver is fucking Kevin's face, and in a bow to the increasing demands of the porn business at the time, slips on a rubber to fuck Kevin's ass. However, when he does enter that special orb of man flesh, it's naked, and what follows is an exceptionally intimate, hot, tender and totally believable fuck session, filled with the exact real-time talk that you would expect and not have scripted. It's remarkable all the more because Pulver's usual statue-like demeanor plays right into Kevin's passion. Kevin cums with Pulver in him, takes a load on his pubes, and they kiss to end the scene.
     Skip forward ten years to 1998 for two more Kein films and then his final film, FULLFilled, in 2000. Kevin has two scenes in this film. One with Ivan Talman and the other with Alex Wilcox (which makes it into The Best of Kevin Williams) in 2006.

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Kip Knoll (Thomas Earl Hagen)

Kip Knoll (Thomas Earl Hagen)

Kip Noll (Thomas Earl Hagen)
43 years old - heart attack
7 August 1957 (Greenwich, Connecticut) - 21 May 2001 (Salt Lake City, Utah)
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26 career film credits, 36 including compilations
     Supposedly straight, he married and had three daughters, then divorced. He died suddenly on 21 May 2001 of a heart attack.
     "Kip" was discovered by a scout who referred him to director Mark Reynolds. Noll insisted that Reynolds get naked himself during their interview. Reynolds said that "Kip Noll had a way of sucking like you suck on a straw, just as you were about to come, that made you feel like your head was coming off. But there was no way to capture that on film..."
     Even in his very first film, he was a star. Trademark Studios issued a small magazine, "The Kip Noll Story," along with his very first hard-core loop. Kip was only 18 years old. He jacked off while wearing a yellow silk high school athletic jacket trimmed in blue. The words "Waipahu High" appeared on the chest. The jacket has become one of the most famous pieces of clothing ever to appear in adult film. (Director Mark Reynolds purchased it in a second-hand clothing shop in Los Angeles, and it was owned by the studio. It later disappeared.)
     Kip Noll almost never made it into film. Mark Reynolds says that when he first met Kip Noll, the actor barely registered. Kip had unkempt hair and a mustache. He was so nondescript, the director almost missed him in the crowd. Kip had flown in from San Diego, and Reynolds almost told him to go home. But after shaving the mustache and getting a haircut, Reynolds realized Kip Noll had something ineffable about him that was startlingly attractive.
     Kip was supposed to be the brother of Bob Noll. Bob Noll was a beefy, curly-haired blond with piercing blue eyes who had done loops for Trademark. They looked alike, and shared similar masturbatory techniques. Kip soon eclipsed his "older brother," Bob.
     Soon, Kip Noll had other "brothers." There was brother Jeff Noll ("Jeff Noll's Buddies"), cousin Marc Noll ("The Adventures of Marc Noll"), brother Scott Noll, brother Chris Noll (aka Scott Noll) and brother Chris Noll.
     In his second film, "Double Your Pleasure," he has hard-core gay sex for the first time. He 69s with a boy (Steve Parker) while being fucked doggie-style by another (Mark Lester).
     In his first four films, Kip is missing one of his front teeth. But by his fifth film, "I'll Do It If You Will," the tooth has been replaced.
     Kip filmed his sixth film, "I'll Do It If You Will," on a farm during the 4th of July weekend. Kip comes home from school to find two other boys on his daddy's farm. He teaches them the joys of sex before they daisy-chain. Kip then sits on a bench and masturbates to orgasm. It's mind-blowing. His whole body flexes and writhes, and he can barely keep his grip on his penis because he's lost all control over his body. It is perhaps one of the most awesome orgasms ever captured on film. (It is also one of the rarest: For reasons not explained, Falcon pulled the loop from its library in 1980. It is now a collector's item.)
     Kip took a break from gay porn, and did not make another film until 1979, "The Kip Noll Fantasy." He did it for William Higgins, a former Congressional staffer who had left public life for adult film. The scene with Emanuelle Bravos not only marks Kip's first scene as a top (he also bottoms), but it marks his first speaking role. (His words, spoken in a deep, masculine voice, are, "I want you to suck my cock.")
     In 1980, Kip starred in the first hot tub scene ever in a gay porn film, in "Kip Noll and the Westside Boys, Zip Code 90069" (the "Zip Code 90069" would later be dropped from the title).
     Kip was involved in a motorcycle accident in 1980 which prevented him from appearing in "Rear Deliveries" (Catalina, 1980). But later that year, he was better enough to do a due with Lee Marlin for Trademark called "Roommates."
     In late 1980, Kip filmed "Grease Monkeys." He, Lee Marlin and Derrick Stanton fuck on Pismo Beach. Kip later said it was the most difficult shoot of his life, because the water was freezing cold and a huge crowd of onlookers kept cheering them on from the cliffs overhead.
     Kip helped promote "Grease Monkeys" by appearing in a live stage show at the Eros Theatre in New York City. He, Lee Marlin and Nick Rodgers did a number of dance routines each night. One of them involved Kip coming down into the audience and straddling the armrest of each patron's chair, rubbing his balls and asshole against the armrest.
     In 1981, Kip let his hair grow out. It became long, fuzzy and bushy, and marked Kip's transition away from the urban disco-boy and more toward a hippie-ish wild man. In "Pacific Coast Highway," Kip engages in docking -- rolling Jack Burke's foreskin over the knob of his own cock. Kip reunited with "PCH" co-star Jeremy Scott for "Class of '84, Part 2." Scott is the last man to fuck Kip Noll on screen.
     In 1981, Kip fucks Derrick Stanton in "Brothers Should Do It." It's not a well-lit scene, but Kip is clearly having fun poking Stanton with abandon. Noll reunited with director Mark Reynolds and super-hung Steve York for the incest-themed "Cumming of Age." The two are joined by Kip's "brother," Scott Noll. Kip teaches Scott how to masturbate while watching the loop, "Kip Noll." They start to fuck when York walks in on them, and joins in. Kip later told friends that Scott Noll was completely over the moon for Steve York, and York was difficult to work with due to his struggles with his homosexuality. Kip said he felt shunted aside, and the scene shows it. But Reynolds says this is his favorite film of all time.
     Kip joined with Al Parker at Surge Studios in the film "Flashback" to fuck Scott Noll again (this time, Scott appeared as "Chris Noll"). A second scene with Parker intercut with shots of Scott Noll jacking off in the shower become a surreal set of still photographs that turn into live-action shots. The film is notable because it originally contained a third scene ("We Tarzans, You Boy, Oh, Boy!") with Noll, Noll and Parker having sex on a hammock. It eventually was sold as a stand-alone loop by Mustang Studios prior to that studio's purchase by Falcon, but the loop has since been lost.
     In 1981, Higgins collaborated again with Noll -- this time to do new footage with Jon King for "Kip Noll, Superstar, Part 1." (A second segment was planned but never made. The "Part 1" has now been dropped from the film.) Noll is interviewed (apparently legitimately) by Jon King. Clips from "The Boys of Venice," "Kip Noll and the Westside Boys," "Pacific Coast Highway" and "Brothers Should Do It" are shown. After the last clip, King and Noll smoke a joint and then have scorching sex. William Higgins said when Noll and King finally got to have at one another, they literally LEAPT at each other. They were RIPPING clothes off one another, and Noll was fucking King on the floor in mere seconds. Higgins kept screaming, "Stop! Stop! The film isn't in the camera yet!" But Noll was pounding away already, and King was screaming and cumming all over himself. Noll blew a load right up King's ass, turned him over and began screwing him doggie-style. Didn't lose his erection at all. Higgins finally got the camera to roll, and filmed for two more hours. What you see on film is a recreated "intro" to the sex. They did that the next day. It's pretty seamless, but you can see how Noll's hair is slightly different and the sun and shadows aren't quite in the same spot. Higgins said that when he had filmed the intro, he just let Noll and King fuck on the floor. The crew packed up around them, and left them there -- screwing like animals, rutting. Higgins says he'd never seen anything like the heat between Jon King and Kip Noll.
     Also in 1981, the Follies Theatre opened in New York City. Kip appeared there in September. Every single one of his performances was sold out. The reaction was unprecedented. Crowds stood in the aisles, the back the of theater and the lobby. Some audience members obtained tickets for seats on the floor of the stage. Lines for the show backed up into the street.
     Noll became famous for having sex with the audience. He often would put his erection into patron's mouths and fuck their faces for 10 or 15 seconds. Once, Kip Noll pulled a patron out of his seat and up on stage, where he proceeded to suck the man for several minutes. The two eventually performed a live 69 sex show for the crowd. Another time, two lovers who had come to the show night after night had a small argument in the theater. Apparently, one man had always sat on the aisle, getting Kip's prick in his mouth. "Look, tonight I'm going to sit on the aisle seat!" the other lover loudly said. Kip overhead. When he came to their seat, he stepped into the row, allowing both lovers to slurp on his prick at the same time.
     After each show, Noll often came back into the theater to shake hands with fans and chat. He signed hundreds of autographs each night.
     Kip Noll returned to the Follies for their New Year's Eve Roman Orgy. The audience was encouraged to strip and sit in their seats with only a towel over their crotches. Kip danced all night.
     In 1983, Kip Noll made one last film. It was "Kip Noll's Casting Couch." The film was produced and financed by Kip himself, and shot entirely on video. Unfortunately, the quality of the video is very low. The film is notable because it features an auto-fellatio segment by straight porn star Ron Jeremy. Kip appears in all the sex scenes, even introducing a new "Chris Noll."
     In 1984, Kip Noll re-appeared at the Follies one last time. The club had lost its license and closed for a time, but had recently re-opened. Kip appeared on stage with mega-hung uncut blond Lance and mustachioed leatherman Daniel Holt.
     Throughout his career, Kip Noll was truly a superstar. He appeared on the cover of "In Touch" twice, and on the cover of "Stallion" once. He had two magazines devoted solely to him: "The Kip Noll Story" and "Kip Noll Cocky." The artist Nico once drew a picture of Noll and Lance in an erotic embrace for the cover of "Meatmen."
     In "Kip Noll, Superstar," Jon King asks Kip Noll why he got into gay porn. "The sex...the enjoyment of it," Noll responds.
     In 1985, rumors abounded that he had died of AIDS. But as "Manshots" magazine reported:
     This proved to be groundless when a friend, having an "in" at one film house, telephoned and asked if the rumor were true. The answer was, "Just a moment, I'll ask him."
     Another rumor is that Kip Noll was straight and got married. In an interview in "In Touch" magazine, Noll said he made no pretense about being straight. But there is conflicting evidence about Noll's hetero- or bi-sexuality. When performing at the Follies in 1981, Noll wore a button with a woman's picture on it; Noll told patrons it was his fiancee. But others said that Noll often appeared with a different woman all the time, and these were just friends.
     Kip Noll's final screen appearance may not have had anything to do with gay porn.
     In 1985, a made-for-TV movie, "Blackout," appeared on HBO. Richard Widmark meets a gas station attendant just prior to the film's finale. No credit is given for this actor (who speaks two lines), but he looks and sounds just like Kip Noll.
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Kip Tyler (John

Kip Tyler (John "Jack" William Hawkins)
24 years old - complications of AIDS
5 August 1971 (Omaha, Nebraska) - 26 August 1995 (San Francisco, California)
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28 career film credits, 46 including compilations
     Jack Hawkins ran in Radical Faerie circles as Billie Jack. Kip/Jack was active in the gay community, volunteering with the Pasadena City College GLSU and Christopher Street West as well as other organizations.
     Jack got his start in porn appearing in "Boys Will Be Boys" in 1991. That was followed by six more films that same year. Jack was busy in 1992 appearing in sixteen films including one of my favorites, "Willing to Take It" where he does a hot flip flop fuck with Tim Bailey. Brett Winters, Brad Chase and Chad Knight also appeared in that film. 1993 he only made two films including "Sex in Strange Places" with Brett Ford and Alex Carrington.
     More information as I find it. Thanks.

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Kristian Brooks (Jason Brook Kanarr)

Kristian Brooks (Jason Brook Kanarr)
37 years old - complications of AIDS
12 March 1971 (Englewood, Colorado) - 31 August 2008 (Custer County, Colorado)
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28 career film credits, 46 including compilations
     Kristian Brooks was born Jason Brook Kanarr. He died at a hospice in Colorado. Sexy stud Kristian Brooks had blond hair, blue eyes and began his porn career in about 1997. He both topped and bottomed and stood about 5' 10" tall. He named his interests as traveling, camping, hiking, climbing, computers, zoology, botany, diving and weights. He was HIV+ and latterly made a bareback appearance or two.
     It was said that Kristian claimed a 'body count' of 3,000 and he was only in his early 20s. His coworkers thought it was quite possible.
     Columnist and editor JC Adams, who had worked with Brooks, said, "I got to know him on the set of Dream Team. He was talkative, bright and always had an anecdote related to his sexcapades that had the cast and crew in stitches. That's how I'll remember him."

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Kurt Marshall (James Allen Rideout, Jr.)

Kurt Marshall (James Allen Rideout, Jr.)
23 years old - kidney failure due to substance abuse and AIDS
13 November 1965 (Waterville, Maine) – 10 October 1988 (Los Angeles, California)
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4 career film credits, 13 including compilations
     In 1984, at the age of 18, Kurt Marshall starred in his first film, Matt Sterling's Sizing Up, with fellow gay adult film star Mark Miller. They were paired in the all important first scene with Mark fucking Kurt. His role was that of a star track and field athlete, which echoed his high school sports experiences. A historian of gay erotic film called Sizing Up a "superior example of a gay porn video which makes gay men visible in places where they have mostly been invisible ... " He made three films the following year, all for Falcon Studios: the highly influential The Other Side of Aspen II, Splash Shots, and Night Flight. The Other Side of Aspen II was Falcon's first film which was shot entirely on video, and Marshall worked with legendary gay adult film performer Scott O'Hara. O'Hara later wrote in his autobiography (Autopornography) that he was not in the least attracted to Marshall, although much of the film was later edited to make it appear as if he was having an intense sexual experience with him and two other blond men. Adult Video News (AVN), the adult film industry trade publication, later rated the film as the ninth most innovative and influential gay porn film of all time in 2005. Marshall's second film, Splash Shots, was credited with making sex around the swimming pool a gay porn trope.
     James was an advocate for gay rights, once telling an interviewer: "I think to be gay is to be blessed. We have so much freedom, so many choices. This isn't our moment to party or to think we're going to stay young forever … maybe it's our time to find someone to be safe with … to be happy with ... "
     James, an admitted drug user, tested positive for HIV in 1986. He came out to his family that same year and entered a drug rehabilitation program. He moved to San Diego, California, in 1987, but returned to Los Angeles later that same year, and worked in the construction industry. He died at Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center. The official cause of death was kidney failure due to substance abuse and AIDS.

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Kyle Carrington (Steven A. Biship)

Kyle Carrington (Steven A. Biship)
33 years old - suicide
3 September 1961 (Springfield, Missouri) – 11 February 1994 (unknown)
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2 career film credits, 12 including compilations
Steven had AIDS and his partner left him so he committed suicide. That's all I could find about Steven. I'll keep searching for more information. Know more? Let me know.

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Kyle Ross (Aaron Cumley)

Kyle Ross (Aaron Cumbley)
29 years old - car crash
30 June 1993 (Southlake, Texas) – 23 April 2023 (Florida)
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54 career film credits, 54 including compilations
     Ross, whose real name was Arron Cumley, was killed in a single vehicle car accident in Florida where he had been on vacation. The adult film performer worked with Helix Studios for many years was 29 years old. He also documented an angry interaction with airline staff who refused to let him board a flight with his service dog, Hank. In later videos Cumley filmed himself sleeping in his rental car and complaining about the heat.
     Ross announced his retirement from performing at the 2020 GayVN Awards ceremony during the group acceptance speech for Helix's Best Feature win for Vegas Nights, also noting that he planned to move behind the scenes at the studio. Then just last month, he announced via Twitter, "I've decided to pursue my dreams and explore opportunities outside of my role at Helix Studios. Thank you for your support and love throughout my journey with Helix Studios. I'm excited to share my future endeavors with you and I can't wait to see what the future holds."
     After the news of Ross' passing broke Tuesday night, his former boyfriend and fellow Helix exclusive, Max Carter, who stopped performing and departed Helix concurrently with Ross, tweeted: "Rip to the my best friend! He has always been there for me when times were tough. Always helped me out whenever I needed it most. I will forever miss you. You left too soon. Words can’t even describe how much you meant to me. Life won’t be the same without you here."
     Though details about the exact time and cause of Ross' car crash are not yet known, he did establish via his Twitter account that he had been vacationing in the Florida Keys, and he documented through a series of videos on his feed starting just after midnight Sunday that he had been turned away from boarding his American Airlines flight from Miami to San Diego due to having failed to submit documentation for his service dog Hank 48 hours before the flight. He subsequently rented a car that he slept in because he was unable to find a hotel with any vacancies.

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Lance

Lance

Lance (David Alan Reis)
29 years old - complications of AIDS
25 November 1962 (Santa Barbara, California) - 26 May 1991 (Marin County, California)
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13 career film credits, 32 including compilations
     David was born in Santa Barbara, California (although some sources say Oolagah, Oklahoma). He was well-known for his “pairings” on screen with Leo Ford (Leo John Hilgeford). Both men also often worked together as sex workers.
     David is said to have grown up in foster homes, was a student at Capuchino High School, San Bruno (just south of San Francisco), had numerous brushes with the law, and been an IV-drug user. He also lived on and off in San Francisco. In an interview in 1986, David said that came from a home plagued with domestic violence, and also admitted to getting drunk and beating up people, apparently on a regular basis.
     Discovered and groomed by Malibu Studios in 1982. Had a reputation for being in trouble, causing trouble and drinking to excess. Appeared live on stage in 1984 at the Follies in New York with Kip Noll and Daniel Holt.
     One of his first films, in 1983, Director William Higgins paired him with Leo Ford in "Leo and Lance: The Good Time are Here" or simply "Leo and Lance" where Lance fucks Leo. That same year he appeared in "Student Bodies" and "Good Hot Stuff" both of which he topped. In 1985 came the blockbuster film "Blonds Do It Best." Lance tops Leo again and then there's that scene with Lance and Shawn Michaels as they cum on Ty Cashe's face.
     Director William Higgins said this about David, in an interview in Manshots, February 1991
     "He has a reputation as the baddest of the bad boys. Much, much worse than Lee Marlin. [David] got arrested for some horrendous accident, drunk driving, and he was in jail. And he was calling me from jail ... and he cried and cried and cried from the jail, and I bailed him out. He was supposed to come over and be good and stay clean and not do drugs or alcohol for long enough to do the film. And he walked in my door and said "Fuck you." Turned and walked out."
     He was cremated and his ashes scattered at sea. Specifically: Ashes scattered off the coast of Marin County, California

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Lance Evans

Lance Evans
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell
Birthdate Unknown
6 career film credits, 6 including compilations
There sure isn't much information on Lance, one of my favorite performers. His scene in Schoolboy Crush with Ryann Wakins (Ryann's only credited performance) is scortching hot on the weight bench. The chemistry between the two works! Then in Cream BBoys, his threeway scene with Corey Savage and Trevor Peterson is unforgetably sexy. In Bareboned Twinks, Lance flip flop fucks with Shaun Ferrara. This curly brown haired beauty is is my top ten list of favorites. I'll keep searching. I can't even find his birthday! Know more about Lance Evans? Let me know.

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Lee Ryder (Darras Robert Pyron)

Lee Ryder (Darras Robert Pyron)
31 years old - Complications from AIDS
3 August 1959 (Norco, California) - 10 July 1991 (Los Angeles, California)
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16 career film credits, 29 including compilations
     Lee began doing gay adult films in 1983 at the age of 24. He was an overnight star. He was tall, lean, dark-skinned, and had a ten inch endowment. Ryder grew up in Laguna and graduated from Esperanza High School in Anaheim. Like many young gay men at the time, he discovered that the only place that would hire an openly gay man was a florist shop. He found work with Crosley's Flowers in Los Angeles, an upscale florist which handled arrangements for the VIP rooms at the Beverly Hills Hotel and on various television series. After a while, he quit his job, and traveled. He followed this pattern throughout his life, working for a florist and then quitting to travel.
     Ryder had met a man named Glenn, who was from Massachusetts but living in Dallas. They were deeply in love. Then Glenn left him. Ryder wanted to open his own flower shop, so beginning in 1982 he began nude modelling to raise money for his business. Within a year, he'd done several layouts and had been on the covers of three national gay porn magazines.
     In late 1982 or early 1983, Ryder met Rod Phillips at the Boom-Boom Room, a popular gay bar in Laguna Beach. Ryder was 24, and Phillips 21. They were deeply attracted to one another, and spent a few months commute-dating before Phillips moved to Los Angeles. At Ryder's urging, Phillips began performing in gay porn films. The two appeared in several of the same films including Winner Takes All and Spokes 1 in 1983 and then The Biggest One I Ever Saw and Giants 1 in 1984. But problems set in. They became jealous of one another when one got paid more, and sometimes accused one another of "enjoying" the sex with a co-worker more than the sex at home. Ryder later admitted he was still in love with "Glenn from Massachusetts", and never really fell in love with Phillips. By 1985 or so, Phillips and Ryder separated.
     Pyron was very much a nomad and liked to travel. He had been to Hawaii, the Panama Canal, Switzerland, Germany, and Jamaica. During the periods he settled down, he had worked for the Flower Loft in San Bernadino and Riverside and achieved the dream of having his own company. He ran Pyron Designs in the 9000 Sunset building in West Hollywood and later re-established it in San Francisco.

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Leo Cooper (Milan Melichar)

Leo Cooper (Milan Melichar)
29 years old - suicide
25 July 1984 (Prague, Czech Republic) - 27 April 2014 (Prague, Czech Republic)
No Find A Grave Information Available
140 career film credits, 192 including compilations, 25 On-Line Episodes
     Milan started his porn careet in 2006 performing in 40 films. He didn't slow down in 2007 as he performed in 47 films. In 2008, he slowed down his production schdule at 25 films. He ended his porm career in 2009 performing in only 1 film.
     He seemingly found happiness. Then on Sunday morning, 27 April 2014, Milan went on Facebook Live before ending his life by jumping from a sixth floor window. Milan described everything on Facebook before the act. "This is a discarded mask, that's who I really am. A troubled person. Thank you all for your willingness and calls, etc. But believe me, I want peace! " was one of his comments.
     People around him don't understand why such a cheerful boy, who had a girlfriend and was extremely happy at work, committed this act. Milan worked as a pedicurist and was even supposed to be promoted in two days. He was happy to start a new life.
     "I can't believe it. He thanked me for giving him a chance to start a new life. He claimed that his life was finally in order and we were all glad that he was no longer doing porn," says devastated friend and salon manager Peter K. Milan.
     What happened to Milan in the five years since leaving porn? Perhaps he was a shooting star, burning brightly at first, then dimming out. Whatever the reason, he will be missed. That's all I could find about Milan. If you knew him or know more about him, please let me know. Thanks!

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Leo Ford

Leo Ford (Leo John Hilgeford)
34 years old - motorcycle crash on Sunset Boulevard
5 July 1957 (Dayton, Ohio) - 17 July 1991 (Ashes scattered near the Golden Gate Bridge)
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22 career film credits, 64 including compilations
     Leo traced his sexual awakening to second grade when he noticed his attraction for boys. He had two brothers with which there were some liaisons but both of them married had families and divorced.
     In San Diego, Ford picked up on yoga and meditation. He spent some time in India studying and practiced celibacy for the heightened experience.
     Onetime lover to Jamie Wingo. Introduced to the business by Scott Andersen. He was approached for nude photos and originally turned the offer down but decided he needed the money. He turned to J. Brian for advice and Brian eventually made a movie with him and Leo used his lover Jamie for his first on film pairing. This was Flashbacks but Style was the first Ford film released although it was the third one he filmed.
     Lived for a time with J. Brian when starting out. Performed a live show at the Follies at 48th and Broadway in Manhattan. Had his own mail order business for selling his work.
     In the film I Am Divine (2013), Ford was described has having a many year relationship with Divine. Ironically, he played a motorcycle accident victim in Games only to die on a motorcycle given to him by William Higgins after filming Class Reunion. Ford and Craig Markle had founded Leo Ford Presents to market Leo's work. Just before Ford's death, he and Markle had been working on a documentary of the physique era.

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Lindon Hawk (Terry Lindon Kelley)

Lindon Hawk (Terry Lindon Kelley)
34 years old - assault
2 February 1976 (Chumuckla, Florida - 13 December 2010 (Pennsacola, Florida)
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10 career film credits, 24 including compilations
     After a fender bender outside of T & C Food Mart, 34-year-old Terry Lindon Kelley (aka Lindon Hawk) and 27-year-old Terry Jabar Hill got out of their cars to inspect the damage. When Kelley began assessing the impact, Hill punched him in the face and fled the scene. What he didn’t know is that his punch sent Kelley’s head flying into the pavement causing cerebral hemorrhaging. Kelley died two days later on Monday afternoon at the nearby Baptist Hospital. The alleged assailant already had four criminal charges against him for various felony drug offenses.
     Terry was a native and lifelong resident of Santa Rosa County. He was a 1995 Graduate of Central High School and enjoyed life to the fullest.
     Lindon Hawk had a brief career in porn from 2000 to 2002 as a smooth twink bottom who starred in such Falcon films as The Other Side Of Aspen V and Out Of Athens 2.

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Lon Flexx (David Lee Anderson)

Lon Flexx (David Lee Anderson)
31 years old - complications from AIDS
7 January 1965 (Claremore, Oklahoma) - 15 September 1996 (West Hollywood, California)
(Ashes scattered at Slide Rock State Park in Arizona)
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49 career film credits, 101 including compilations
     Dissatisified with the homophobic atmosphere of Oklahoma, he moved to California in 1988, residing first in Riverside and then Costa Mesa. He got a job writing liner-notes for Universal Studios laser-disc releases. But it was his discovery in late 1988 by Catalina Video that made him a gay porn star. He'd do a whopping 15 adult films in 1989 -- one every five weeks. His break-out hit was Billboard for Catalina, where he fucked Joey Stephano. It was quickly followed up by Cousins Should Do It (1989, HIS Video), where he gets fucked by Neil Thomas, Heat in the Night (1989, Huge Video), where he flip flops with Bill Marlowe, Sex, Lies & Video Cassettes (1989, Sierra Pacific), where he is once again paired with Joey Stephano and Some Men Are Bigger Than Others (1989, Tiger Media). These were mind-blowing performances. When he throat-rapes his co-star, Bill Marlow, in Heat in the Night, it's one of the most erotic performances of the year. Lesser films included an amazing auto-fellatio performance in Blow Your Own Horn (1989, Vivid Video), a star turn in Cowboys and Indians (1989, Vivid Video), a performance so cool that he blew out the film's star in Davey and the Cruisers (1989, Fine-Line Prods.), a stunning oral-only show in International Guide to the Fine Art of Fellatio (1989, Vivid Video), and the steamy Ten is Enough (1989, Sierra Pacific).
     He moved to the gay ghetto of West Hollywood in 1990, and made a whopping 22 films that year. That's one every two weeks! He made four must-have, absolutely stellar appearances. Anyone would be proud to have just one of these in their career; he did all four. They included Big Bang (1990, Falcon), More of A Man (1990, All Worlds Video), Plunge (1990, Falcon), and Sex Shooters (1990, Sierra Pacific). A-minus films included the superb California Stud Pups (1990, Video 10) and Mystic Museum (1990, Infinity Video).
     By now, Lon Flexx was one of the biggest stars of the gay adult firmament. He was universally recognized throughout the sex industry as one of the nicest people anyone would ever meet. He was funny, gentle, open, honest, and cared very deeply for the people he worked and performed with. He was well-known for being a settled person, wanting to make a home for himself while enjoying the sexual blessings God had given him. And he cooked. Boy, could he cook! Performers talked about how he'd bring home-made baked goods to the set, or how eating at his house was like going to a tasty local diner.
     He also had the superstar status to allow his body to be more masculine. He had naturally dark skin and dark brown hair, and his legs were always unshaven and extremely hairy. But during the first years of his adult film career, Lon Flex trimmed most of his pubes down and completely shaved his upper body. He now began extensively working out, packing muscle onto his chest and allowing his natural, somewhat furry body hair to grow back. Although he'd sometimes shave his stomach and create a stronger pubic hair line, he was downright hairy-chested in the last three years of his career.
     And he had time for fans. A full six-footer, and strikingly handsome, he was recognized practically everywhere he went. But if someone wanted to talk to him, or asked for an autography, he was quick with a smile and a chat. He loved fans, and wanted them to feel like he was approachable. Once, while in a West Hollywood market, he was mobbed by six or seven gushing fans. He talked with them at length, even hanging around until the last fan had gotten through the check-out. He was so beloved, that he'd be approached on the street. He'd flash that boyish, eager smile and sign whatever they wanted.
     But there was a downside. Although nearly all gay porn studios had begun using condoms all the time on all sets, Falcon Studios would not do so until 1992. Falcon was, at that time, the biggest and wealthiest gay porn studio in the world. Its films cost nearly $70 each. Its Jocks and Mustang lines were $35 each. One of Falcon's biggest stars -- indeed, one of the four biggest adult film stars in the whole world -- was Joey Stefano. By 1990, Stefano was HIV-positive. Just how Stefano seroconverted is not known, but he was an intravenous drug user, male prostitute, and engaged in an extensive amount of unprotected anal sex in his private life in addition to having mostly unprotected anal sex on the set of adult films. Stefano was so fucked up, he didn't even know he had HIV; once he learned he had seroconverted, he told no one. Lon Flexx wasn't a drug user or male prostitute, but he was having a significant amount of sex in his private life, some or all of which may have been bareback. And on the set of Plunge in 1990, Lon Flexx had unprotected anal sex with Joey Stefano. Looking back, it's hard not to find the scene disturbing.
     His health began deteriorating in 1991, and he did just six videos in 1991, only one of which (Lunch Hour [Catalina]) was any good. In 1992, he made just two films. One of these was the excellent Trade-Off (All Worlds Video) for Jerry Douglas, who had directed his eye-popping performance in More of A Man in 1990. But Lon was increasingly sick. While visiting his family in New Mexico over the Thanksgiving holiday, he fell seriously ill. He was diagnosed with AIDS, and spent several weeks in the hospital. He did not return to Los Angeles until March 1993.
     He was hospitalized frequently in 1993 and 1994. David Lee Anderson finally entered into rest on at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in West Hollywood, California, on September 15, 1995. His entire family was by his side, as was his partner, Rob McCaffree. He was cremated, and his ashes scattered at Slide Rock State Park in Arizona on September 30. He himself had selected the site some time earlier, one of his favorite places in the whole world.

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Lou Cass

Lou Cass in his porno days

Lou Cass

Lou Cass now!
Lou Cass
Alive and Well
Birthdate 20 April 1966
23 career film credits, 33 including compilations
Lou Cass is one of the few performers that was able to successfully switch over to a mainstream theatrial career. He has done work in music, film and TV including a music CD, parts in General Hospital, Melrose Place, Beverly Hills 90210 and parts in the films "The Takeover" and "I Love Trouble" just to name a few. He was even in a Coors Light commercial in 1994. His IMDB listing.
Lou's pornographic career began with Weekend Workout in 1987 and ended with Man of the Year in 1991. He started his own company, Forrest Films, and directed and produced four videos. Lou performed as a top, bottom and solo during his career.

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Luc Colton (Alain René Ruest)

Luc Colton (Alain René Ruest)
(aka Matt Clarke)
29 years old - complications of AIDS
23 January 1959 (Cornwall, Ontario, Canada) - 18 May 1993 (Los Angeles, California) - Burial Cornwall, Ontario, Canada
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4 career film credits, 5 including compilations
     Luc Colton performed in only four films. Noteable is the Catalina Video replease Pacific Coast Highway 2 where he gets fucked by Tom Chandler.
     The other Catalina Video Release was 1990's Classified Action 1 where he flip flop fucks with the hunk Michael Parks.
     Not much information has been found so far. I will keep researching. Knew him? Know more abouot him? Let me know. Thanks!

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Luke Bender (Scott Plaisance)

Luke Bender (Scott Plaisance)
(aka John Fell and Steve Kennedy)
29 years old - complications of AIDS
21 November 1965 (Europe) - 1 January 1995 (unknown)
Find A Grave Information Unavailable
29 career film credits, 69 including compilations
     Steve Kennedy was born as Scott Plaisance. He was an adult performer and model. He died in 1995. Luke Bender is also known as Steve Kennedy in gay porn movies. He was born in Europe, one of five sons, but moved to the US as a young boy and raised in Hollywood. He later worked as a pastry chef.
     One of his first films, in 1989, was for Jeff Stryker in Powerful 2 The Return. He was able to deep throat Stryker but found it intimidating to work with him when Stryker was both imposing physically and in charge of the production.
     1989 was the same year another noteable film he was in, Deep in Hot Water. In scene three, He is with Danny Brown and Brad Mitchell in a hot tub where Luke shoves garden hoses up Danny’s and Brad’s butts for an amazing double enema scene that’s quite breath-taking.
     It was the following year where Luke ended up in another water themed film titled Plunge where he was paired with Andy Mantegna who is lounging by the pool playing with himself and a dildo. Luke comes along and gives Andy the real thing. This film had a bunch of stars including Joey Stefano and Lon Flexx in a hot tub. Doug Niles, Steve Kreig and Joey Stefano in a hot tub and then there is Rod Phillips, Cal Jensen and Buck Tanner going at it poolside.
     Luke's last film was in 1997 titled The Unlawful and has Luke fuck Chance Caldwell by the pool.
     There's not a lot of information out there about Scott. More as I find it. Knew him? Know more abouot him? Let me know. Thanks!

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Marc Radcliff (Frederick Martin Shasteen, Jr)

Marc Radcliff (Frederick Martin Shasteen, Jr)

Marc Radcliff (Fredrick Martin Shasteen, Jr)
33 years old - drown in his bathtub
14 April 1966 (Union Grove, Alabama) - 19 March 1995 (West Hollywood, California)
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34 career film credits, 43 including compilations
     Fredrick was born a full blooded Cherokee. He left Alabama at age 16 and moved to San Francisco where he worked as a model and escort.
     One if his first noteable films was Hard Rock High in 1988 where he fucks Brandon Wells. He only did four films that year. The following year, 1989, Marc performed in eight films including Mirrors where he flip flop fucks with Chris McKenzie and Show It Off where he fucks the incredbly cute Sandy Blue, who looks a lot like Pop Star Shaun Cassidy.
     Marc performed in a total of thirty-four films during his career. At one point he wen to Las Vegas, got married and had a son but was divorced within a year. He drowned in a bathtub but an autopsy found no alcohol or drugs in his blood. More information as I find it. Thanks!

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Matt Gunther (Steven Matthew Laing)

Matt Gunther (Steven Matthew Lang)
33 years old - congestive heart failure resulting from AIDS
28 May 1963 (Garden Grove, California) - 27 May 1997 (Huntington Beach, California)
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His ashes were scattered at sea
38 career film credits, 118 including compilations
In 1990 Gunther moved to West Hollywood at the age of 27 and made his first gay porn film, To The Bone. He appeared in a total of 38 movies. He was nominated for several pornographic industry awards during his career and won the 1992 Gay Erotic Video Awards' Biggest Bitch on the Set award. He was considered by directors to be difficult to work with but was popular with other porn stars. His last film was Long Play, released in 1995. He contracted HIV in 1995. He appeared at the 1996 Probe "Men in Video" Awards as a presenter and rode in an AIDS hospice float in that year’s West Hollywood Gay Pride parade.
Rumour has it that in the final months of his life, he was acting belligerent and irrationally. He ended up in a wheelchair and eventually in a hospice but he abused the caretakers and ended up homeless in the streets. A couple of friends tried taking him in but he was impossible to live with. Sad.

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Matt Ramsey (Aldon Joseph Brown)

Matt Ramsey (Aldon Joseph Brown)

Matt Ramsey aka Peter North (Aldon Joseph Brown)
Alive and Well
Born 11 May 1957 (Halifax, Nova Scotia)
28 career gay film credits, 41 including compilations (2,189 gay & straight - undocumented)
     Brown was born in Halifax, Nova Scotia, the son of Eric Austin Brown and Gisele Marie Robichaud. His father was of Scottish descent while his mother was of English and French Canadian descent.
     In a 1996 interview published in North's hometown newspaper The Daily News, North stated that he was discovered while modeling athletic wear at a private party in Los Angeles in the early 1980s. A man within the adult film industry, whom North did not name, attended the party, was impressed by North's physique and gave him his business card.
     North began his adult film career in 1983. Initially, North performed in gay pornography, as both a top and bottom, under the name Matt Ramsey. He transitioned to straight pornography soon after. North has appeared in over 2,000 adult films and also directed more than 70 films (notably, his North Pole and Anal Addicts series), most of them between 1998 and 2007. He has also produced over 20 films, including 15 in the North Pole series. In 2001, he launched his own production company Northpole Entertainment. According to North's official website, he chose his stage name because "Your penis is also referred to as your Peter and when you are erect, it faces North. Plus, I am from the North."
     North became involved in the U.S. government's 1986 investigation of Traci Lords's underage involvement in the industry. Lords was underage when she made most of her movies, including several sex scenes with North. The government eventually dropped the investigation. In a 1996 interview in Details magazine, North commented on his involvement in the scandal by saying: "Traci Lords didn't do much for me. She reeked sex, looked good and young. But I didn't know that she was that young. When the scandal broke, I thought it was a lot of baloney on her part. She knew what she was doing and she deceived a lot of people. She was sexually aggressive off camera to many people, so the whole 'innocence corrupted' scenario she came up with was a total farce."
     In 1994, North published a guide to meeting and bedding beautiful women entitled Penetrating Insights.
     North is a member of the X-Rated Critics Organization (XRCO) and the Adult Video News (AVN) Hall of Fame.[9] In 2004, North was featured in a book and film project Thinking XXX by photographer Timothy Greenfield-Sanders.
     Peter was married to Jewel De'Nyle from 1998 to 2000.
     Peter and Nadia North married in the summer of 2014; the couple have performed together in several adult videos.
     On July 15, 2019, TMZ reported that Nadia North was granted a restraining order against her husband following two episodes of domestic violence in June of that year. One of the incidents reportedly left her with a concussion, and she alleges that there were about 20 such violent encounters with North.
     One of his first gay films was Cousins directed by the infamous William Higgins in 1983. Matt Ramsey made only a few all male features. His rise to fame came by performing in Straight Adult Features under the name Peter North. This classic William Higgins pre-condom sizzler stars Matt as a straight shooter who experiences a sexual awakening, all thanks to his Cousin and his buddies. A rare treat to see Matt Ramsey in an all male feature! (Scene 1 fucking the super cute Billy Gant, Scene 2 fucking Scott Roberts, Scene 4 he gets fucked by Steve Rodgers in the only film Steve would appear in and Scene 6 is a solo.)
     The next year, 1984, he performed in The Bigger the Better 1 as a teacher telling his sexual exploits. In Scene 2 he gets fucked by the super hung Rick Donovan. In Scene 3 he flip flop fucks with Brian Michaels. In the next scene he flip flop fucks with Buster.

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Milan Melichar

Mike Green aka Leo Cooper (Milan Melichar)
29 years old - suicide
25 July 1984 (Prague, Czech Republic) - 27 April 2014 (Praha 4, Prague, Czech Republic)
No Find A Grave Information
140 career film credits, 192 including compilations
     Milan commited suicide and documented his last moments on Facebook before he jumped out of a window on a busy Sunday morning in Klobucnícká Street in Prague 4.
     "This is a discarded mask, that's who I really am. A troubled person. Thank you all for your willingness and calls, etc. But believe me, I want peace! " was one of his comments.
     People around him don't understand why such a cheerful boy, who had a girlfriend and was extremely happy at work, committed this act. Milan worked as a pedicurist and was even supposed to be promoted in two days. He was happy to start a new life.
     "I can't believe it. He thanked me for giving him a chance to start a new life. He claimed that his life was finally in order and we were all glad that he was no longer doing porn," says devastated friend and the salon manager. Milan wasn't alone either - he was living with an older girlfriend who had gone out of Prague for the weekend.

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Mike Henson (Kenneth John Seymour)

Mike Henson (Kenneth John Seymour)
38 years old - heroin overdose
4 October 1963 (Salinas, California) - 6 September 2002 (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania)
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17 career film credits, 36 including compilations
In 1994 he graduated from the UCLA School of Computer Sciences, and later helped set up computer operations for David Forest's business enterprises. Drug problems continued to plague him, however, and a comeback attempt in 1998 failed when fans reacted negatively to the toll drug use had taken on his once youthful good looks, though his body remained in remarkably good shape. He eventually settled in Pennsylvania.
According to his brother, Bobby Seymour, in Sacramento (where Kenny's family resides), Kenny was at the home of his longtime army buddy and boyfriend, Dennis, who was at work, at the time of his death. Dennis came home to find Kenny's body, with a bible in his hand. After four years of sobriety, he died from a heroin overdose.

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Morgan

Morgan

Morgan
murdered? thrown off a cliff? accidental? fell off a cliff? still alive?
born c1961 - 9 October 1983 ???
A Blogspot Dedicated to Morgan
7 career film credits, 8 including compilations
     "Morgan" was a vintage gay porn star from the early 1980s. He performed in three solo scenes and threes gay scenes (along with associated photo shoots that appeared in magazines promoting his scenes).
     In his three gay scenes, Morgan showed himself to be versatile, deep-throating cock, getting sucked himself, and fucking. But the standout scenes show him to be a very enthusiastic bottom, posturing himself for easy accessibility and for the deepest penetration, which he clearly loved.
     Virtually nothing is known about Morgan because his real name has never been revealed. His six scenes all seem to have come out in 1982-83. He did two solos and two gay scenes with Magnum Griffin and YMAC. His frst gay scene was interacial with co-star Cory Jacobson titled Newspaper Boy. Morgan and Cory trade blowbobs, then Cory fucks Morgan with his big black cock.
     Cory was doing the collections for his paper route when he met Nick, the blonde in apartment 4c. Nick said he had been taking a shower and that his mother was not at home. But he had the scent of sex about him, and Cory guessed young Nick had been jacking off. Cory teasingly removed Nick's towel, exposing a ripe hard-on. He winked at Nick and said, "What have you been up to?" Nick blushed, but his balls were tingling over being so close to this luscious black teenager, and he wanted to be sucked.
     His second gay scene, Meter Man #2, was apparently the last of the 8mm film loops from Magnum Griffin--it was numbered 52 in their long-running series. Note: This was my first ever porn purchase. My father had an 8mm projector. I set it up in the basement and watched Meter Man #2 over and over. Morgan is a very enthuastuic bottom and begs for more while he's getting fucked by Erick Martin.
     Every month the meter must be read, but the meter man wants to read Charlie as well as just his meter. To get Charlie convinced, the meter man shows off his massive tool and Charlie is suitably impressed.
     William Higgins recruited him for his own studio Laguna Pacific, and Morgan did one solo (Strictly for Ladies Only) and one gay scene for The Best Little Warehouse in L.A. The production date for The Best Little Warehouse in L.A. was August 20, 1982, and the film was released the following year. But that is Morgan's last known appearance.
     There are unverified rumors that 1) he died or 2) his death was faked because his father found he was doing porn and forced him to quit. William Higgins has said: "He went up on Big Bear Mountain with his family and he told his father, 'Stop the car, I'm going to take a piss.' He opened the door and he stepped off the side of the mountain and was killed." (quoted from the entry for Morgan at the Gay Erotic Video Index). But this statement has been disputed as a cover story. There are no death records for a young man of the appropriate age during 1983-84 in San Bernardino County, California. (One presumes that Morgan was eighteen when he started doing porn in 1982, so he must have been born in 1963 or 1964.) The entry for Morgan at the Internet Adult Film Database gives a death date of October 9, 1983, but in the details merely repeats various rumors. The California Death Index shows that no one born between 1960-1966 died in San Bernardino County on October 9, 1983.
     So the mystery remains.

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Pierre Buisson

Pierre Buisson
24 years old - heroin overdose
1963 (France) - 1 November 1987 (France)
No Find A Grave Information
3 career film credits, 5 including compilations
     Pierre did a total of three career films for J Daniel Cadinot. In his first film, Cadinot interviews Pierre while bring filmed.
     "I'd just turned 18. A friend of mine said, "with your looks, you should star for Cadinot!" So, I phoned him and arranged a meeting. Jean Daniel's cool. He interviewed me."
     "Do you like girls or boys?" "Both!" "What do you do with guys?" "I do with them what I don't do with girls; I take it up the arse!" "Tell me about it..." "Well. My first time, I was 16 and an apprentice baker. There were secret meetings in the cellars, in the stairways... you know how it is when you're desperate!"
     After half an hour, JD said, "Ok! We'll shoot your story!"
     "And that's how I became the star of Aime... Comme Minet!" (All of Me)
     After three films, Cadinot ended up not working with Pierre any more because of his drug usage.
     That's all I could find about Pierre for the moment. He really was a very cute young man. Do you know more about Pierre? Please let me know.

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Randy Cochran

Randy Cockran
Alive and well, best we can tell
Born 28 Aguust 1962 from Baltimore, Maryland
74 career film credits, 136 including compilations
     The following are excerpts from an interview Randy did with Mitch Lawrence from the May 2003 issue of Black Inches Magazine.

     Back in the early eighties, I was living in Hollywood and working three jobs. I stayed so busy that I didn't have the time to spend all the money I was making. I didn't even have a car, very unusual for someone in Southern California. Anyway, I was on the bus one day and read an article that said, "You can't make any money working for someone else." About the same time, some guy told me that I fucked well enough to escort, so I popped an ad in the local gay rag and I was off and running.
     Also, about the same time, I answered an ad in Drama Log that was seeking dancers. It was supposedly for a music dance video and I was sure it was legitimate, because there were lots of SAG and AFTRA members in it. As it turned out, a few weeks into rehearsals the producers announced it was actualy an adult production. There were some big cast changes, but I stayed on and ended up starring in my first adult video.
     It was a Black Forest Productions flick called Making It Big, which took nearly a year to make. I was in other films that were released earlier, but that was my first and also the one that earned me a nomination for Best Actor at the 1986 Adult Video Awards. I was the first Black performer to go up for that category. Believe it or not, back then, Black actors still had white voiceovers.
     Have you encountered any sort of prejudice from within the porn industry?
     Absolutely! The worst was probably my fiftieth film, called In the Black. The producer wanted to make a Black flick, but he didn't want his neighbors to see Black guys going in and out of his neighborhood in the San Fernando Valley, so he cramped seven performers and a crew of seven more in a little two-bedroom unit elsewhere. The uncomfortable vibes definitely came across in the finished product.
     I've worked on all-Black productions, interracial productions, and on all-white productions in a technical capacity, and unfortunately, there's a pretty big difference between each level. That includes everything from pay scales, dressing rooms, sets, catering, and makeup to technical support. It's just not equal.
     What's the climate like in the business today?
     A big part of my being in the industry was to get better conditions for Black performers. I've been successful on some levels and believe things have improved in my sixteen-plus years in front of the cameras, but I've recently heard rumors of backsliding.
     What do you consider to be your best work in video?
     Heatwaves - a Catalina production, by the way. It's one of my favorites because of the treatment I recieved. A limo picked me up and took me to a yacht that had belonged to Elizabeth Taylor for a four-day cruise to Catalina Island. The cast was beautiful, the weather was wonderful, and there was great food, hot sex, the works for two days on and two days off!
     My second favorite was another Black Forest production, In Thrust We Trust. Believe it or not, my co-stars were hung larger than me, and we had a scene where everyone cums three times. That was fucking hot!
     Speaking of dick size, care to enlighten us?
     10" x 7".
     Did you have a favorite director?
     There are several, actually. First was Robert of Adam and Co., because he was terrific to work for and he taught me a great deal about the industry. Bill Higgins was responsible for those terrific Catalina productions. Gino Colbert is always a joy to work with, and Chi Chi LaRue is wonderfully professional.
     What about your less rewarding experiences?
     I suppose Lazlo gets my vote for least favorite producer, although I liked him personally. He's the one who killed off Cory Monroe and me in an auto accident. Cory and I delivered a great performance sex-wise, but Lazlo had scheduled too many scenes for one day and needed us to return for dialogue pickups, which give a cleaner soundtrack, eliminate director's instructions, still camera clicks, air and road noise, and so forth. Instead of paying for the extra day, he killed us off in the credits to save bucks.
     Tell us about your favorite co-stars.
     I like Steve Love, David Ashfield, and Gene Lamar. Brad Leatherwood was great, too.
     How was handsome Ty Jones to work with?
     Absolutely great. He should also be included on my list of favorite performers. What a fantastic dick! He was a great friend and we got to play around a lot off-camera. His other half, Ron, used to screw me silly up against the wall.
     What's your funniest experience in the porn business?
     Something that happened at the end of filming Mr. Cochran's Neighborhood, which was inclued as a blooper. Andre Bolla was sucking dick and getting worked over by a large dildo when he let loose with a huge belch right into the camera. Oops!
     How long have you been escorting?
     Over twenty years now.
     What do most clients prefer?
     Bottoming.
     And what do you prefer?
     Topping.
     So that works out really well.
     Absolutely!
     What are your personal preferences?
     I also prefer to top in my private life, unless the dick is larger than mine. I'm a firm believer that one has to know what feels good to make it feel good. I enjoy a good dicking every now and then, and I'm lucky to have had some of the largest pieces in the industry.
     Are you in a relationship or single?
     I'm a bachelor all the way.

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Rex Chandler (Paul Dennis Fow)

Rex Chandler (Paul Dennis Fow)
Alive and Well
Born 14 August 1966
16 career film credits, 31 including compilations
     Paul Fow is an American actor and former gay adult movie film actor. He was born in Mount Clemens, Michigan on Sunday, August 14, 1966. A former Mr. Michigan he decided to move to Los Angeles in 1990 to seek out a career in the entertainment field. He modeled for several adult magazines before his agent suggested he try adult films. A heterosexual, he put in his contract that he would perform strictly as a gay-for-pay sexual top and performed under the name Rex Chandler.
     In 1989 he performed in eight films. His first film was A View To A Thrill (HIS Video). He appeared in four of the film's five scenes, one in a non-sexual role while topping Michael White, Steve Henson and Kevin Sharpe in the other three scenes. His performance proved so successful that he was awarded Best Newcomer.
      He appeared in Manrammer in 1989 topping Domino Deveraux in the first scene and Jeff Hardy in scene four.
     Deep in Hot Water (Falcon) was another 1989 release. He tops Cal Jensen in scene one and Brad Phillips in scene four.
     In 1996, scenes filmed earlier were released as a solo film titled Rex: One-on-One, which went on to win 1996 Best Gay Solo Video.
     He eventually retired from the industry and became a part time actor and photographer. He took a role spoofing his adult persona in the 1995 film Man of the Year and was also cast in a bit role in the 1995 film The Doom Generation by independent director Gregg Araki.
     He also starred in an off Broadway New York production of the stage play Making Porn by playwright Ronnie Larsen in 1996 as the character Jack Hawk that largely paralleled his own story.
     He served in the army military police in Alabama from 1980 to 1986 which he enjoyed. Afterwards, school studies were in political science and marketing.
     The former actor has returned from a tour of duty in Iraq. He was with an MP Company based in Irvine, California. Now, he is with a CID detachment in Los Angeles.
     He is 4-0-1 as a Muay Thai Boxer in the Heavyweight division. Loves the athletic sports Downhill Skiing and Mountain Biking. He trained to be a California State Park Ranger.
     Quotes: "Time is the most valuable gift you can give someone, you can always make back more money, but you can never get back the time."

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Ricky Hawke

Ricky Hawke
22 years old - accidential carbon monoxide poisoning
circa 1987 (unknown) - 22 January 2010 (unknown)
21 career film credits, 22 including compilations
     Known as Ricky Hawke (with Miami Studios) and as Randy (with Active Duty), he performed in 25 porn scenes released from 2007 to 2010. His first 11 scenes were with Miami Studios, his next 12 were with Active Duty and his last two scenes were with Dirty Bird Pictures. An endearing, baby-faced, muscle twink with braces, he was 5'6", 152 lbs, brown hair and eyes, and very smooth. His impressively big cock was both longer and thicker than average, leaving no doubt as to how he found work in gay porn. He had two tattoos - a Superman logo on his left shoulder blade and "Made in USA" on his left side torso. At Miami Studios, as Ricky Hawke, he made two videos with his twin brother (who confusingly went by the stage name of Randy Hawke) - one where they jacked off together and another where they had a threesome. After that, he filmed seven scenes with Miami Studios as a bareback top. He also made a solo scene and a top scene wearing a condom.
     His twin brother "Randy Hawke" also had a scene with Cody Austin in "Gay Twin Sex: Just the Sex." He appeared in Playguy Magazine in the July and August 2009 editions.
     At Active Duty, as Randy, he made 12 porn scenes in 2008 and 2009. He was a top in six scenes, a bottom in two scenes, flip fucked in three scenes, and did one solo. One of his top scenes was a bi threesome, where he fucked both the girl and the guy. None of his Active Duty work is bareback. There is also a "behind the scenes" clip from Summer Recruits 2 that shows the actors palling around and flirting. He made his final two scenes with Dirty Bird Pictures as Randy in "Brent Corrigan's Working Hard," where he was a top in two threesomes (condoms), including double penetration on Brent Corrigan in the second scene.
     Sadly, he passed away suddenly at age 22, which was announced in January 2010.
     "With a mouth full of metal, Randy was easily one of the most adorable models. Braces or not, he never stopped beaming! Like the very glint of silver flashing at you every time he pursed his lips to smile - Randy's happiness, friendliness & unequivocal acceptance of everyone around him made him absolutely unique in our often overtly judgmental world.
     Randy was a soldier of life. Though handsome and sturdy, his personal appeal far exceeded his physical. He was simply that much of a joy to be around! He was goofy and fearless because of it. He spoke with the cutest little affectation: It made you want to grab hold of his head in your hands and plant the most generous kiss on his big, silly mouth. When he revealed to me I was the first boy he had ever kissed in a scene I blushed and worried if I was a worthwhile first time for him.
     "When we say that everyone loved him and relished being in his company, we really do mean everyone. Randy was more than just a paramour to us. His zeal and vibrancy simply just emanated from him indiscriminately."--Brent Corrigan
     I wish I knew more about Ricky including where he was from and his real name. If you know more about him, please let me know. Thanks!

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Ricky Rhodes

Ricky Rhodes
aka Randy Rhodes aka Mikey
29 years old - complications of AIDS
13 April 1968 (Washington, Pennsylvania) - 10 October 1997 (unknown)
11 career film credits, 17 including compilations
There is very little I could find about petite 5'6" 140 pound Ricky Rhodes. He was active in the industry from 1986 to 1987 and performed in eleven films including Mikey Likes It (1986), his first film. He fucks Rob Baker in the first scene. In the second scene he gets fucked by Chip Douglas. Cashload (1986) is another film where Ricky appears in the last scene being fucked by Justin Rhodes. Corey Monroe and Michael Cummings also appear in this film. Michael Cummings fucks Ricky in It's the Size That Counts (1987). In Hot on His Tale (1987), Ricky gets fucked by all nine inches of Eric Manchester. Ricky's last film was Full Grown Full Blown (1987). He gets fucked in scene three by nine inch Chris Thompson.
That's Ricky's professional career in a nutshell. As for his personal story, I have no idea. Not much can be found online, but I'll keep searching. Knew him or know more about Ricky, please let me know.

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Robert Harris (Randy Paul)

Robert Harris (Randy Paul)
1960 (Bayshore, Long Island) - 2020 (Bayshore, Long Island)
*Researching*
20 career film credits, 41 including compilations
     Performed in dozens of straight flicks as Randy Paul.
     Director Jeff Lawrence said that Harris initially hated to admit that he would be the bottom but for the right guy would fall right into it.
     His mother discouraged his pursuit of education so he joined the Navy and then enrolled in acting school. One day he recognized Veronica Hart. After engaging her in conversation, she invited him to be an extra on a porn shoot. Thus started his film career.
     His first work was for stills for gay men's magazines. That got him contacts for a bi movie. After that he moved (as discreetly as possible) back and forth between straight and gay productions. After working in L.A. he was able to get work in fetish movies in his preferred New York. When that dried up, he didn't pursue it any more.
     One of his most recognized appearances was in "Stryker Force." In one of the most famous scenes in gay porn history, Jeff Stryker leads comrades Robert Harris and Doug Corey in from the rain for a rest. The heat rises, and soon Harris is pleasing both hung studs, who take turns fucking him as the storm escalates. In the last scene of the film, back home after their jungle adventures, Steve Hammond pays Jeff Stryker a visit and the two adversaries finally make nice. Steve lets his guard down and confesses his long-hidden affection for Jeff. The two men suddenly feel free to surrender to their passions and find happiness in each other's manly arms, celebrating everything thrilling and wonderful about man-on-man love. As stunt-ass, Robert Harris bottoms in Steve Hammond's place.
     There is a very good article at The Rialto Report you will enjpy. It includes an interview.

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The Rockland Brothers
Hal, Shane and Vince
*Researching*

Hal Rockland

Hal Rockland (Wolfgang)
8 career film credits, 16 including compilations
Rumour has it that as of 2016, Hal is married, living a normal life and owns his own construction company.

Shane Rockland

Shane Rockland (Eberhardt)
7 career film credits, 10 including compilations
Rumour has it that as of 2016, Shane is married, living a normal life and is a pilot.

Vince Rockland

Vince Rockland (Helmut)
62 career film credits, 85 including compilations

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Rod Phillips (Gregory Leslie Patton)

Rod Phillips (Gregory Leslie Patton)
33 years old - complications of AIDS
23 August 1960 (El Centro, California) - 24 May 1993 (West Hollywood, California)
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14 career film credits, 30 including compilations
     Rod Phillips, born Gregory Leslie Patton, August 23, 1960, in El Centro, California - died May 24, 1993, in West Hollywood, California. Rod's porn career spanned from 1982 to 1993.
     His neighbors while growing up owned a jewerly business, and Phillips was fascinated by jewelry at a young age. He learned basic gem polishing, and was knotting pearl necklaces by the age of 12. He graduated from Santa Barbara High School in 1978. After graduation, he moved to Paris, Texas, where he studied jewelry making and gemology at Paris Junior College. He left school and moved to Midland, Texas, but returned to Santa Barbara in 1980.
     In late 1982 or early 1983, Lee Ryder met Rod Phillips at the Boom-Boom Room, a popular gay bar in Laguna Beach. Ryder was 24, and Phillips 21. They were deeply attracted to one another, and spent a few months commute-dating before Phillips moved to Los Angeles. At Ryder's urging, Phillips began performing in gay porn films. The two did five films together including The Biggest One I Ever Saw and Winner Takes All. where they both take turns fucking Mark Hunter. But problems set in. They became jealous of one another when one got paid more, and sometimes accused one another of "enjoying" the sex with a co-worker more than the sex at home. Ryder later admitted he was still in love with "Glenn from Massachusetts", and never really fell in love with Phillips.
     By 1985 or so, Phillips and Ryder separated. Phillips kept working in adult film, however. In 1986, Phillips moved to Philadelphia, and then to Wayne, New Jersey (just outside New York City). But by 1988 he was back in Los Angeles, and in 1990 was back doing adult film again. He did two films that year, the first of which was Guess Who's Coming? Phillips dated gay adult film star Joey Stefano for a few months in 1990, and fucked Joey in the 1990 film Hard Steal. Phillips got out of adult film again, but returned in 1993 for Hologram.
     It was the last thing he ever did. Phillips was struggling with HIV-related lymphatic prostate cancer, with which he'd been diagnosed in 1992, and undergoing extensive chemotherapy. It was taking a huge toll on him, physically. He could no longer ride his motorcycle to work, Diamonds on Rodeo Drive. He had to take a freelance position at The Gauntlet, which was two blocks from his apartment in West Hollywood. This enabled him to walk to work.
     Greg died on May 24, 1993, at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center. He had been in good shape until early 1993, filming his last adult video in February and continuing to go to the gym every day. Rumors that he committed suicide are only rumor. His health had rapidly declined in the three weeks prior to his death, and while his passing was sudden it was not due to suicide by an overdose of drugs.

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Ron Pearson

Ron Pearson
42 years old - complications of AIDS
4 October 1963 (Pleasant Hill, California) - 10 December 2000 (San Francisco, California)
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11 career film credits, 19 including compilations
     Ron died at home surrounded by his family and friends. He had only been sick for the last two months.
     Born in Berkley and raised in Pleasant Hill, Clifornia, Ron spent half of his high school years in Belgium and half in Pleasant Hill in the East Bay. He moved to his beloved San Francisco in 1978 just in time to take part in the rise of the city's gay culture.
     After being discovered at an Endup (a San Francisco gay bar) jock-strap contest in 1980, Ron went on to star in or produce fourteen movies.
     Onetime partner to Tim Kramer, they founded Pegasus Productions and then split over the production of the video Pegasus where Tim fucked Ron.
     Ron was not only a porn star in the 1980s, but was also the producer and director of Celsius Productions. He not only directed, but sometimes stared in film for Celsius including Lovers & Friends where he gets fucked by Brad Mason.
     One of Ron's more noteable films was Winners where he gets fucked by the super hung Mark Jennings, whose ten inch endowment plowed many an ass.
     Ron's last film was for Falcon in 1988 and titled Perfect Summer. Ron plays the asshole gym owner's son. In the last scene he is fucking himself with a big black plug in a locker room when gym workers John Davenport and Tony Marino take turns spit roasting Ron with their ten inch cocks.
     Ron had a wide array of hobbies and interests. An avid traveler, he visited no less than 54 countries on every continent except Antarctica. In recent years, he enjoyed touring around America for months at a time in his custom-tailored RV. Other favorite pastimes included entertaining friends and family, scuba diving, stamp and coin collecting and spending summers at the Russian River. Ron was also a member of Freewheelers car club, a gay group dedicated to vintage automobiles.
     Friends said that Ron was an individual in every sense of the word, and that he left an impression on those he met. Fiercely independent, he had a master plan for his life and seldom veered from it.

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Ryan Morrison (Robert Glenn Hucks)

Ryan Morrison (Robert Glenn Hucks)
20 years old - murdered
15 March 1993 (Villa Rica, Georgia) - 17 January 2014 (Jacksonville, Florida)
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2 career film credits, 3 including compilations
     Robert Glenn Hucks — also known as Ryan Ray Gibson & Ryan Morrison, former model — ventured into Metro, a well-known gay bar of Jacksonville, Fla. on Jan. 17. When he left with another man, U.S.P.S. worker Jeremy Christian Pittman, age 34, it would be the last time anyone would ever see Hucks alive.
     Robert Glenn Hucks was found dead along the Georgia-Florida state line on Jan.31. According to FirstCoastNews.com, the Jacksonville Sheriff's office announced on Jan. 31 that Pittman had been arrested under suspicion of Huck's murder, and was booked into Duval County Jail.
     After his mother made a missing-person's report on Jan. 18, police did a wellness check at his apartment house, but they did not find Hucks nor did they see any evidence of foul play. Further investigations revealed that Hucks and Pittman left the bar together, which ultimately led to the involvement of the J.S.O. homicide department and to the discovery of the body.
     Chief Adam Brown of the Jacksonville Sheriff's Office said that after the two men left Metro, they returned to Pittman's residence. An argument ensued, with Hucks wanting to be taken home. Instead, Pittman murdered him, later dumping his body in Browntown, a wooded part of Camden County, Georgia.
     "Somewhere in between the suspect's and the victim's home, the suspect murdered the victim," Brown told reporters at the news conference. Brown has also said that this was not the result of a hate crime.
     Pittman has confessed to the crime and has been cooperating with the police. Pittman was indicted on 9/19/2014 for 1st Degree Murder. Pittman was convicted of 2nd degree murder & received 45 yrs in prison.

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Rydar Hanson (Wolfgang Praegert)

Rydar Hanson (Wolfgang Praegert)
32 years old - complications from AIDS
14 February 1957 (Bremerhaven, Stadt Bremerhaven, Bremen, Germany) - 18 October 1989 (Ventura County, California)
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22 career film credits, 45 including compilations
Born in Germany as Wolfgang Praegert in 1957, of an artist father, and the young Wolfgang apparently exhibited acrylic paintings at exhibitions in both France and Germany. He lived in Paris (to which all artists gravitate at some point), and then emigrated to New York City. He studied opera there briefly. He then got into gay porn, making his first appearance in Chain Reactions after moving to Los Angeles. Known Aliases / aka Ryder Hanson, Radar Hanson, Rydar Hansen. Like so many gay porn stars of the era, succumbed to complications from the AIDS virus in 1989. Before he died, he did much traveling, and he even made a feature-length biographical video showcasing the places he visited and his reactions to them.

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Scorpio (Wilber James Weiss, Jr)

Scorpio (Wilber James Weiss, Jr)
46 years old - complications from AIDS
1 November 1952 (Trenton, New Jersey) - 24 December 1998 (Pensacola, Florida)
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18 career film credits, 29 including compilations
     According to Christopher Rage, Scorpio was a lover with Phillip Demato when their scene from Superstars was taped.
Notes from Madd Coww:
     His entry into gay erotica was as a dancer/stripper. His porn name was selected because his birthday was November 1, and he got the tattoo of the astrological symbol at the time be began public performances.
     Scorpio was born and raised in Trenton, New Jersey. He said that he knew he was gay when he was eight years old. And evidently, his being gay and subsequently making a career of it did not cause much family strife, at least with his exceptionally-understanding mother.
     Before becoming a professional stripper, Scorpio was in the Roller Derby in Philadelphia. When the Derby went defunct, Scorpio moved to NYC and got into another form of performing arts. He auditioned for Jack Deveau, and that led to his first porn film appearance, in a loop entitled "Double Scorpio," found in Hand-In-Hand's Private Collection (1978). The "plot" is that Scorpio is in a NYC porn theatre watching a solo scene in which he is onscreen jacking off, and then he goes up to the screen and has sex with himself. Audience member interacting with film character. Hmmm . . . Purple Rose of Cairo?
     FYI, Scorpio said that he was not much impressed by his co-star in Just Blonds (1979), who "was on his own little planet." Interestingly, Scorpio also said that co-star Eric Ryan was "even a bigger turn-off than Lee Marlin." Scorpio's displeasure with Eric was because Eric was claiming to be straight. The other porn actors he worked with, Scorpio said that Jack Wrangler was "always blitzed," and that he "didn't get along" with Roy Garrett.
     Scorpio made numerous films in the late seventies and early eighties, in the NYC area. In addition to films for Jack Deveau and Hand-In-Hand, he also made films for Arch Brown/PM Productions, and Francis Ellie (Scorpio says that "Francis Ellie" was not one person, but actually were two brothers, one straight and one gay, who made porn films, both gay and straight).
     Scorpio played the heroine in the legendary Centurians of Rome (1981). He says that the opening exterior scenes were filmed in upstate New York, and that they were freezing their asses off during the filming. His first love scene with George Payne was shot in a "fistfucking loft over on the East Side." Scorpio says that George Payne was awful at sucking cock. Scorpio still did not like Eric Ryan, and perhaps that helped provide much of the convincing "acting" in the film. Scorpio says that the entire shooting took five days. He says that his favorite director was Christopher Rage, and that his favorite co-star was Casey Donovan, who he fuckes in "Swallow It" (1986).
     corpio never did any West Coast films. He later moved to Florida--first Miami, where he worked in an adult bookstore, and then he moved to Pensacola (where family members lived) and was employed as a hair stylist there.
     Scorpio had a firm view of "gay for pay" in gay porn: "I'd rather work with a complete gay cast, instead of straights. I don't like straight people in a gay film. I want someone that's going to reciprocate. I don't need a 'do-me queen.'"

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Scott O'Hara (John Robert Scott)

Scott O'Hara (John Robert Scott)
37 years old - complications from AIDS
16 October 1961 (Grants Pass, Oregon) - 18 February 1998 (San Francisco, California)
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24 career film credits, 54 including compilations
     John was the 5th of 7 children. His literary and personal papers are housed in the Gay and Lesbian Literature Collection of the John Hay Library, Brown University. He is credited in 24 films. While he was short at 5'3", nobody called him short. His cock was 11 inches and was promoted as the biggest in San Francisco. He could easily suck himself off and did it for the camera in Head Over Heels.
     In spite of his famously large dick, he preferred bottoming, putting his ass in the air for all takers at many a bathhouse. John started his porn career doing J/O for the audience at the Savages Theater in San Francisco. He toured the country with his j/o auto-fellatio show.
     John wrote an autobiography, Autopornography: A Memoir of Life in the Lust Lane. It gives a backstage look at the world of pornography, revealing why he loved it, what he got out of it, and why he left it. In autobiographical style, he considers and poses answers to some fasinating questions: What is sex? What makes a porn star? And why does pornography really upset people?
     Scott was the pornophile's intellectual. He is the author of 4 books including Autopornography,
SeXplorers: The Guide to Doing It on the Road,
Do It Yourself Piston Polishing (for Non-Mechanics), and
Rarely Pure and Never Simple: Selected Essays of Scott O'Hara.
     John edited and published the magazines Steam and Wilde and wrote a musical, Ex-Lovers, that ran for a month in San Francisco.
     John's body was cremated, and his ashes distributed among all who wanted any. In his self-written obituary, he announced that he had "croaked" and asked that people make a donation to "their local sperm bank in lieu of charity."

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Scotty Knox

Scotty Knox
Researching
20 years old - auto accident
18 August 1999 (North Carolina) - 13 January 2020 (North Carolina)
Find A Grave information unavailable
     Sad news came out of North Carolina when adult film star Scotty Knox was found dead at the scene of a car accident. According to Str8UpGayPorn, site not safe for work, it was close friend and fellow performer Mickey Knox who shared the unfortunate news. Previously, Scotty Knox performed with Mickey on his studio Colby Knox, along with Mickey’s husband Colby Chambers.
     Scotty performed in 27 scenes for Colby Knox Studio most often with Colby Chambers and Mickey Knox as mostly a bottom, but was known to top as well. In his first scene on 8 December 2017 titled "Meet Scott Knox" he is fucked by Mickey Knox. About a month later, Colby Chambers fucks Scott in a scene titled "Fuck Me Harder." Less than a month later both Mickey and Colby fuck Scott in a scene titled "A Boy Can Dream." Exacty a month later, Scotty fucks Mickey in a scene appropriately title "Scotty Tops."
     Scotty was six feet and trim at 145 pounds.

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Sergio Canali (Paul Francis Sypek)

Sergio Canali (Paul Francis Sypek)
Also Known As: Paul Dirosa
31 years old - kidnapped (cause of death unknown)
9 May 1963 (Boston, Massachusetts) - 15 August 1994 (Seattle, Washington)
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14 career film credits, 23 including compilations
     Born on May 9th, 1963, Paul Francis Sypek, at the age of 18, would first adopt the name Paul DiRosa in order to make his porn debut in a magazine called Stars (issue #12). He would appear in a number of similar spreads using that alias.
     By 1982, he graduated to film, making yet another name change... Sergio Canali. The name was chosen because of his (very) slight resemblance to porn star Giorgio Canali (along with the industries habit of creating 'family' names, in order to give the impression that the actors were 'brothers').
     With his boyish, recognizable face and a headful of brown curls, Canali typified the waifish, vulnerable look that would soon fall by the wayside in the gym-obsessed 90's. During his brief film career he would work for William Higgins, Man-Age, Laguna Pacific, HIS, Catalina Video, Bijou, and L.A. Video, among others.
     Sergio Canali appeared in numerous gay porn movies in the early and mid-1980s. He also performed as Paul Dirosa in films made by Man-Age Studios and William Higgins. Canali/DiRosa’s bext known films include The French Lieutenant’s Boys and Mikey Likes IT
     From 1983-1985, Canali would appear in only one or two films per year. But by 1986, the floodgates opened and he managed to appear in an astounding six films, seemingly cementing his place in the world of gay porn. Or... not.
     Oddly, that same year would also mark his departure from the industry.
     His departure? Perhaps it was due to an increasing awareness of the affects of AIDS/HIV on the industry? Or? Maybe he'd just had enough.
     Whatever the reason, off he went to live his life, leaving Paul DiRosa and Sergio Canali behind...
     ...or so he thought.
     You know there's no escaping our pasts. Especially if you're an established porn star. Yes, it seems those images he left behind, on page and screen? Well, they lived on. Especially in the minds of his most ardent admirers.
     Pedro Almodóvar's 1990 madcap comedy classic Tie Me Up! Tie Me Down! tells the tale of an obsessed fan kidnapping the object of his affection - a female porn star - in the hopes of winning her love. It's a lovely romp of a film. However, when such a scenario plays out in real life?
     Not so funny.
     In 1992, Canali was busy seeing the world. While touring Florence, Italy, he was kidnapped by one such obsessed fan... Leonardo Vitti. Canali's disappearance was reported to the police, who undertook a thorough investigation which, sadly, yielded nothing. Canali had vanished. Without a trace. Vitti was considered a person of interest at the time, but no formal charges were ever brought against him.
     And then the case went cold.
     That is until the fall of 1994, when workers, demolishing an abandoned home belonging to Vitti, would make a most gruesome discovery; the skeletal remains of two bodies in the basement - one belonging to Vitti. The other?
     Sergio Canali.
     Coroners would perform an autopsy, but no cause of death could be determined. People assumed it was a case of murder/suicide, but details of what may have happened remain the stuff of speculation.
     Canali's body was returned to Seattle, WA, where the official date of his death would be recorded as August 15, 1994. He was only 31 years old.
     Paul started his female impersonation career in 1989 with his first drag name being Jamie Stewart. He supported the Imperial Sovereign Court of Seattle for many years, and was the first "Miss Changes Too" in 1993. He had just finished the year hosting the Thursday night shows for his favorite charity "Chicken Soup Brigade" at Changes Too. He was first runner-up or both Miss Gay Seattle 1992 and Miss Gay Washinton 1992.
     Paul was also committed to the Leather community and assisted with many leather fantasies over the years.
     His great love for cats and dogs, animals in general, was well known. He had tremendous creative and artistic abilities with art, flower and dress design.

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Sparky O'Toole (Donald Keith Paton)

Sparky O'Toole (Donald Keith Paton)
Also Known As: Don Larson / Donald Keith Paton / Sparkey O'Toole / Sparky
32 years old - complications of AIDS
8 June 1967 (Long Beach, CA) - 1 August 1999 (Mechanicsville, PA)
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46 career film credits, 82 including compilations
     Donald Keith Paton, who appeared in thirty-nine gay adult videos as Sparky O'Toole, died of AIDS complications in August, 1999 in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania, where he had been living with his mother and step-father since July, 1995. After he retired from films, due to poor health, and dropped out of sight, premature rumors frequently surfaced that he had died. His parents have now confirmed his death, however, and said that his body had been cremated.
     Born on June 8, 1967 in Long Beach, California, Paton frequently said that his career in videos was probably the major accomplishment if not the high point of his life. According to friends, he often told of being dropped on his head as a six-month-old infant, and thereafter he suffered from grand mal seizures and epilepsy. Because of poor reading skills, he dropped out of the Anaheim, California, school system and left home at fourteen.
     By his own admission, he was nicknamed "Sparky" at the age of thirteen because he smoked pot. By 1995, he had tested HIV-positive from sharing infected needles. This brought an end to his video career, which began in 1987. His final tapes, among them Sparky O'Toole's Excellent Adventure, featured him in solo performances.
     During the last four years of his life, spent in Mechanicsburg, he did landscaping at his mother's church and continued playing backgammon, at which he was a whiz.
     Source

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Steve Henson

Steve Henson
Alive and Well, Despite Rumours of his Death
2 February 1964 (Los Angeles, California)
7 career film credits, 13 including compilations
     Steve Henson's active years overlapped those of Bill Henson, so some studios promoted them as brothers, though there were not related. Steve was a toned but very slender 5-foot-10 with piercing brown eyes and a mop of hair that was sometimes brown, sometimes red. He had an odd ability to disarticulate his hips and torso, much as a belly dancer can do, so that when he was fucking, his upper and lower body moved in ways you would not think possible.
     Steve is on the cover of Like a Horse, from the Matt Sterling collection. Steve gets fucked by Matt Ramsey. It was his first film. The year was 1984 and Steve narrates the film. He was twenty years old.
     In 1985 Steve appears in three giant films, The Other Side of Aspen 2 (where Steve shares one of the hottest tongue-kisses ever filmed with Jeff Turk and then gets fucked by Jeff), The Pizza Boy He Delivers (where Steve flip flop fucks with Troy Ramsey) and Inch by Inch where Steve appears in one of my favorite scenes. Tony Stefano takes a shower and then finds Steve Henson in his apartment, so he pounds Steve's ass on the bed.
     Steve's last film with in 1989 appearing in View to a Thrill. Steve is in scene 3 getting fucked by Adam Grant while Rex Chandler watches. In the next scene Rex takes his turn fucking Steve.
     Steve was one of my favorites. He just had that look about him that oozed sex appeal. I'll keep researching Steve to see if I find out anymore. If you know more, please let me know.

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Steve Fox (Rommel E. Hunt)

Steve Fox (Rommel E. Hunt)
31 years old - suicide
4 July 1966 (Alabaster, Alabama) - 23 October 1997 (Atlanta, Georgia)
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8 career film credits, 9 including compilations
     Rommel died in Atlanta after a two-year struggle with mental illness, according to his life partner, Jim Brams. The DeKalb County coroner has ruled the death a suicide. He also played chess and the accordion.
     Under the stage name "Steve Fox," Hunt acted in eight adult films and starred in four, Brams said. His credits include "Secret Shore Leave," "Flashpoint," "Compulsion" and "Buttbusters." Rommel moved to Atlanta at age 6 with his family. A graduate of Druid Hills High School, he attended Oxford College of Emory University.
     A memorial service was held Oct. 26, the Atlanta Journal Constitution reported. In addition to Brams, Rommel is survived by his parents, a sister and a brother.
     Thanks to Steffidiana for the information.

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Steven Craig (George Joseph Dufour, Jr)

Steven Craig (George Joseph Dufour, Jr)

31 years old - complications from AIDS
14 December 1058 (Exeter, New Hampshire) - 13 September 1990 (Ellenton, Florida)
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6 career film credits, 30 including compilations
Steven Craig died of AIDS at his parents home in Ellenton, Florida. Born as George Joseph Dufour, Jr. in Exeter, New Hampshire, George was a track star in high school. He received a a Bachelor of Arts from the University of New Hampshire.
George, who had a featured part as an Edo in Startrek: The Next Generation, was politically active in California, working as co-producer of the "Blue Moon Trilogy" mural for the APLA Health. George appeared in the August 1988 edition of Playgirl. He also worked on a number of gay adult movies between 1985 and 1989 including the title role of the 1985 safe sex video, Life Guard.

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Tim Kramer (Douglas Murrell Cooper)

Tim Kramer (Douglas Murrell Cooper)
34 years old - complications of AIDS
2 February 1958 (Milton, West Virginia) - 16 April 1992 (Columbus, Ohio)
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21 career film credits, 51 including compilations
Upon graduation from high school in Columbus, he moved to Ft. Lauderdale, Florida where he modeled for Target Studios, later moving to San Francisco where he continued his career working for Falcon, before branching out working for other studios. In the mid eighties he began working as an escort in Hollywood.
In a 1988 Advocate interview, Doug spoke openly of the escort service he ran in Hollywood for many years: "That's where I made most of the money. I don't do drugs or liquor, so I used the (film) business to build up my name, so I could charge more money on the side in my escort service." His earnings were invested in a solar installation company, and in time parlayed into a partnership with fellow skin star Ron Pearson to found Pegasus Productions. The partnership produced only one film, Pegasus which featured the founders. By the late 1980s, Cooper made fewer films and concentrated most of his energy on a health food store in West Hollywood. It was during this time he was diagnosed HIV+, and he commented thus: "I'm in a business now that's health oriented. We're an AIDS support group, promote safe sex, and are here to try and give something back to the community and help people who are HIV+ or have AIDS. So I can't be involved in unsafe sex in front of a camera, because that says it's okay. It would make me look like a hypocrite."

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Tim Lowe

Tim Lowe (David Cody)
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell - Still Researching
Born 1967
62 career film credits, 136 including compilations
     Worked in construction and managed a porn theater a few nights per week. Worked for Dirk Yates in a porn store and was asked to do photos and a j/o shoot. He was expecting to do straight porn for Yates but was offered gay porn. Meeting Eric Manchester, who he never worked with, he was connected to Catalina. He said that doing gay porn, which he enjoyed, made him bisexual but he didn't date men off camera.
     In 1989 he appeared in Powerline with an all star cast including John Davenport, Eric Manchester, Lou Cass, Tom Steele, Keith Panther and Mike Gregory. Tim was in the opening scene that ends up with a sandwich scene with Keith Panther fucking Tim and Tim fucking Mike Gregory at the same time.      That same year, 1989, Tim got his own leading role in Tim Lowe's Weekend Adventure where he fucks Christian Toth in the opening scene only to return in scene three fucking Nick Cougar.
     Tim appeared in a William Higgins film, Down Under, again in 1989. He gets fucked by Christopher Ryan (in Christopher's only credited film appearance) in scene 4 only to get fucked again in scene five when they wake up and go at it again.
     Butch Taylor described him as "the best to work with."
     Tim appeared in a total of 22 films in 1989.
     While supporting a wife, a kid and a drug habit, in 1993 he and another trick killed a patron, Allen Kinkead, who had given him the heave-ho, and ran off with the victim's car and credit cards.
"Bay Area Reporter" Newspaper - 18 February 1993
Porn Star Tim Lowe Arrested for Murder
by Dennis Conkin
     Gay porn star Tim Lowe remains in San Francisco County jail on $1,000,000 bail after his arrest for the strangulation murder of Allen Kinkead, 52, a telemarketer for Levi Strauss. Lowe, Whose birth name is David Cody, and female companion Kimberley Stefanie were arrested at an Alamagordo, New .Mexico, roadblock January 21 on a warrant issued by San F rancisco District Attorney Arlo Smith.
     The couple was arrested in Kinkead’s 1991 fire-red Pontiac Trans-AM, according to police homicide inspector Napoleon Hendrix, and were extradited to San F rancisco on the charges. Hendrix told the Bay Area Reporterthat Kinkead’s body was discovered on January 8 on the floor of a bedroom in his residence at 2027A Oak Street, near Golden Gate Park, after a co-worker with whom he regularly drove to work grew concerned over his disappearance and contacted police. Patrol police officers responding to the scene were unable to enter the two-story flat. A fire department hook and ladder truck was called.
     Firefighters broke into the apartment and found Kinkead dead, bound with duct tape, on the floor of his bedroom. There was evidence of sex and signs of a struggle inside the room. Because Cody and Stefanic stole Kinkead's car and credit cards, they faced a possible death penalty for murder in the commission of a robbery. However, after a year in county jail, Cody pleaded guilty to a lesser charge of involuntary manslaughter. Cody was given three years in state prison, plus his time in county, and probation. To Kinkead's friends it seemed that the infamous Tim Lowe had done what made him famous in the first place - he got off.
     It is interesting to note that the last film Tim Lowe is credited with is Criminal Dick. The promotional retoric says "They're convicted felons with a fuck-filled porn past, and Catalina has collected some of their best scenes from before they were behind bars."

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TJ Swan (Tyrone Jones)

TJ Swan (Tyrone Jones)
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell
Born 1961 (Los Angeles, California)
27 career film credits, 29 including compilations
     TJ Swan (or Tyrone Jones) was an adult entertainer and model initially for Athletic Model Guild, which was established by photographer Bob Mizer in 1945 (about 16 years before Swan was born – how’s that for a porn institution!). Mizer is generally credited with ‘discovering’ Swan (though he seems to say that about a lot of models), and shot some of Swan’s first nude/erotic work.
     You almost never see this guy presented as a thug or a tough guy, but he also escapes being a fey, effeminate bottom, too. There’s something about his facial expressions in photos that is simultaneously open and confident (without being cocky or arrogant), as well as sort of distant and jaded. He never photographs like a pornstar (picture that face that Brent Everett is always making), but like a grown man who happens to have a huge dong, and happens to be rolling around on fake grass with another naked man (AMG used that fake grass set a lot, and there are LOTS of photos of TJ wrestling other models while oiled like a Turk).
     He looks human, I guess is my point. He doesn’t smile often in photos, but when he does it’s endearing and disarming.
     A rather horrible article at TJ appeared in Inches Magazine. Here is is:
     “He’s black as night and wants to rule it. He says he wants to be known only as TJ from LA. He doesn’t need to put out word he moves softly but carries a big 11-inch stick! People seem to know that instinctively. He got his 150-pound body growing up on football, basketball, tennis, track and lifting weights.
     Last we heard he was earning a living doing janitorial work, even though, heaven knows, he could earn, a helluva lot more selling what he sports between his legs on the streetcorners of the big city. But this TJ, this brown-eyed, 23-year-old with the blue-ribbon dick, is in no way like those who sell it to the next buyer instead of blue-collar work.
     This TJ is a proud young man who believes in earning his own way… who collects stamps as a hobby… who admires his father more than anybody else on earth… and whose only true goal in life is to be self employed. Now if that isn’t smart, what the hell is? [sic]”
     The Bacchus release Black Sweat. the main scene from that collection, which features TJ’s ‘home gym’ being utilized by a group of his friends, until it gets too hot to workout and everyone starts penis wrestling on the floor instead.
     It’s often billed as a gangbang, but there’s something so almost wholesome-seeming about all of it that it never reaches that ideal on its own. That’s just what people like to call a group of black men taking and giving pleasure. A thing you’ll notice that I’ve never understood is the switch in the middle to two obviously white-sounding voices dubbing over all the men in the scene. The audio switches back by the end, but it’s a jarring and comical swap that always makes me laugh.
     Thanks to Tyler at the badwolf blog

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Tom Steele

Tom Steele
Alive and well, best we can tell
Born circa 1966 (Texas)
21 career film credits, 42 including compilations
Back in the mid 80’s, Jeff Stryker was the reining Bigus Dickus in gay porn with only one real challenger to the throne: Tom Steele. Blessed with legitimate ten inches measured from the outside (as opposed to the kidney where most 10" porn star cocks come from). Also handsome and hung, the biggest, no pun intended, difference between Stryker and Tom Steele is that Tom was 100% gay and proud of it. His career reached its zenith in the mid 80’s then he dropped out of site, returning for a hand full of titles in the mid 90’s. Tom Steele was at his best in “Four Card Stud” where he fucks Sky Thompson in the final scene. And Tom is hot is hot the iconic “The Pledge Masters” where he fucks Mark Reardon in scene two. Not much more I could find about Tom. I'll keep looking. Know him? Know more about him? Let me know.

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Tommy Wilde (Douglas Todd Dinkler)

Tommy Wilde (Douglas Todd Dinkler)
32 years old - car wreck
12 October 1961 (Circleville, Ohio) - 1 April 1994 (Los Angeles, California)
Find A Grave Information
6 career film credits, 30 including compilations
Doug attended Chaparral High School in Las Vegas, Nevada, shortly after graduation Doug moved to Los Angeles, California to pursue careers in both acting and modeling. Not much more I could find about Doug. I'll keep looking. Know him? Know more about him? Let me know.

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Tristan Paris (Jean-Francois Pare)

Tristan Paris (Jean-Francois Pare)
40 years old - suicide
7 January 1997 (Montréal, Québec, Canada) - 5 January 2017 (Montréal, Québec, Canada)
No Find A Grave Information Available
15 career film credits, 37 including compilations
     This French-Canadian got his gay porn start in the 1996 and worked nearly exclusively for Falcon Studios. With his smooth and fit body and an ass that was simply the perfect pert bubble butt.
     In 1999 he was awarded the Probe Award for Best Bottom, 1999 Men in Video Awards Hottest Cocksucker, 2000 Grabby Award Best Group Scene: Out of Athens 1 and the 2001 GayVN Awards Best Group Scene: Out of Athens 1.
     In 2001 had an uncredited role in Showtime's Queer as Folk as a bathhouse groper.
     He returned to Montreal after living for three years in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Toronto. Rumour has it that once Tristan retired from the porn business in 2004 that he transitioned to a female. I read that in a blog, so I can't rely on that as fact.
     Not much more I could find about Tristan. I'll keep looking. Know him? Know more about him? Let me know.

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Ty Jones

Ty Jones
Alive and Well, Best We Can Tell
Born in 1965 (unknown location)
53 career film credits, 108 including compilations
This phenomenally fit black actor was usually kept in productions that capitalized on his race, including at least 30 films whose titles stressed it. He was also often paired up with other men of color, but performed in interacial films too like 1997's Pump where Ty and Randy Cochran both fuck Cory Monroe. Black Force, which came out in 1988 has Ty fucking Jeremy Scott. Ty topped and bottomed in Who's Dat Boy, a film he also made in 1988. He fucked the cute Romeo Hans in Scene 4, then he fucked Christopher Mann in the following scene. The film's final scene has Ty getting fucked by Tony Davis.
Ty started his career in 1980 at about 25 years old. He topped, he bottomed and he served baby face. His last film was made around 2000. That's all the information I could gather on Ty. If you knew him or have more information, please let me know.

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William Higgins, Director

William Higgins, Director/Producer
77 years old - heart attack
19 December 1942 (USA) - 21 December 2019 (Amsterdam)
Find A Grave Information Unavailable
     With 841 credits as director, he is the undisputed king of twink porn.
     Not coming out until he was almost 35, he did spend time attending porn theaters in Texas when he decided to go to California and make better movies.
     Landing in L.A., he searched out the "gay areas." After telling a guy he met at the French Market that he wanted to make gay films, the guy helped him find performers, headed to the guy's apartment and filmed A Married Man. His stage name was taken from Edward Higgins, one of the credits for that film. The movie ended up having to be sold for a small amount of money so Higgins almost gave up the business. However, a theater owner liked it enough to encourage him to continue and Boys of Venice was next.
     The Boys of Venice was begun on film left over from A Married Man. The film was Higgins' first to include public street shots which became a trademark of his. Another trademark was trying to film at an angle that would allow the camera to see both the cum shot and the facial expression at the same time.
     Higgins did not like working with scripts because things would always go wrong and you had better be ready to adapt. He started breaking the filming into two days to make it less taxing. The still shots were the second day and then he decided to do extra motion shots to cover the failures from the first day.
     His earliest films are famous for filming slim young things and slow motion cum shots. He later moved to eastern Europe to take up videoing the many willing uncut cock artists from the collapsed Soviet empire, using the name Wim Hof.

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Zac Stevens

Zac Stevens
25 years old - suicide
10 May 1990 (Daphne, Alabama) - 17 November 2015 (San Diego, CA)
Find A Grave Information.
7 career film credits, 7 including compilations
     Zac was a joy to everyone who met him. He was a spirit-filled, amazing, talented, loving, caring, gentle, respectful, optimistic, compassionate, brilliant, funny and fun-loving son, brother, family member, friend, co-worker, student and team mate. He loved his family and friends, Auburn, soccer and Birmingham.
     According to sources, his body was found on the 9th floor balcony of the Marriott Hotel in the Gaslight Quarter neighborhood of San Diego, apparently the resut of a suicide jump.
     According the the Helix Website - Zac was boyfriends with Scotty Clarke. From the humble beginnings of their relationship meeting at McDonald's to the prank Zac pulled on Scotty during their first date to their passionate daily sex romps, the boys reveal all the intimate secrets that have helped keep them together. A love this deep is made to be admired.
     Zac made several scenes with gay porn studios including Men.com and Helix Studios. In his Twitter bio, he said he enjoyed hiking, traveling, yoga and skydiving.

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What is the history of gay porn?

     Late 1800s, nude male physique pictures acquire their own style but are usually censored by painting over privates.

     Early 1900s, private heterosexual stag films are made. A few homosexual acts are used to 'punish' characters who, however, seem to submit willingly.

     1945, Bob Mizer begins his homo erotic physique photography, later he got into soft-core videos called 'danglies'.

     Late 1940s, gay positive films such as Fireworks (Kenneth Anger) and Un Chant D'Amour (Jean Genet) are filmed.

     Early 1960s, courts strike down censorship of the depiction of male nudity.

     1968, Soft-core gay videos by Bob Mizer, Pat Rocco, etc. are shown theatrically, especially at the Park Theater, L.A.

     1969, Stonewall riots pave the way to gay awareness and self acceptance.

     1970, Hard-core porn is released theatrically for the first time.

     1971, Boys in the Sand is released by Wakefield Poole. This is the first high quality gay film and starts the career of the first gay porn star: Casey Donovan.

     1975, S/M gets its full definition in director Roger Earl's Born to Raise Hell.

     1976, U.S. military investigates servicemen in porn amending the Code of Conduct to forbid it. It was dropped four years later to avoid embarrassment of the Marine Corps but studios took another four years before they freely used servicemen again.

     1980, the 'gay disease' is first noted.

     1982, AIDS and it's transmission mechanism are fully defined.

     1982, 'gay for pay' performers are first used with their non-reciprocating-sex performances.

     1983, 'big budget' hard-core films begin to be made.

     1985, the first performers of note begin their march to the grave.

     1987, safe sex videos are made for the first time and the magic condom is invented.

     1987, the Marine Corps again takes on porn attacking Kly Max studio for using marines. Studios again hold off on using servicemen.

     1999, unsafe sex is romanticized in 'bareback' videos, but additionally included re-insertion after cumming. This is an act that does not appear early in gay porn because it had no significance at that time.

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