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WHET Zak Spears?

Was he really the greatest gay male porn star ever? Did he ever fulfill his dream of finishing technical school and become a building contractor?

"Spears was born Khristofor Lawl Rossianov in Chicago, but his German Catholic family also lived in Rochester and Minneapolis, Minnesota. He has two older brothers, one younger brother, and two older sisters.

He came out to his family when he was 12, and at school when he was 16. He was constantly ridiculed with gay epithets as a result, and so he withdrew from all social circles. He kept a calendar filled with check marks for days when he caught flak at school for being gay, and those calendars were ultimately filled with check marks.

Spears withdrew into a fantasy world to cope, and started to fantasize about being a more attractive man based on the men who posed for such magazines as "Playgirl."

After school, Spears worked as a diesel mechanic in Chicago and Minneapolis, and caught flak from the blue-collar men he worked with for being gay. It got to the point where he dreaded getting in his car everyday and going to work.

Spears had a friend in the business named Joey Morgan, who is also from Minneapolis. Morgan took Spears to a bar called The Saloon in Minneapolis where Chi Chi LaRue was doing a show, and introduced them. Spears and LaRue became fast friends, and LaRue used him for a video called Handjobs 3 (1993). From there, Spears took off in the gay adult industry which he still works in today.

In 1996 Spears retired from the gay adult industry after falling in love with Matthew Rush, who would also go on to star in gay adult films. Spears had hoped the relationship would be long-term, but after they broke up, he bulked up with a lot more muscle and returned to the industry in 2004.

Spears owns two Chow dogs, and when he is not doing adult films he works as a personal trainer, and as a bartender at The Faultline in Los Angeles. He considers himself to be very fortunate that he has worked in the industry for as long as he has, knowing that most models only last a few years or months. In his career, he has performed in dozens of videos and worked for most of the biggest studios in gay adult entertainment, including Catalina, HIS Video, Mustang, Men of Odyssey, Hot House Entertainment, Colt Studios, Vivid Video, Falcon, Channel 1 Releasing, Metro, Hot Desert Knights, Massive Studio, and more. He is known for refusing to shave his body hair or to work at being more "cut" with his muscular physique, his deep growling voice, and the "explosive" manner in which he climaxes on film. Spears is equally comfortable "topping" and "bottoming" in his videos, and criticizes models who insist that they are only one or the other."

Trivia:

Bartending at The Faultline bar in Silverlake, California. [June 2004]

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by Anonymousreply 12October 8, 2018 1:21 PM

I see him walking his dogs around West Hollywood with a guy who I assume is his partner. He seems very happy and friendly. Looks like he is enjoying life.

by Anonymousreply 1October 7, 2018 5:09 PM

[quote]Morgan took Spears to a bar called The Saloon in Minneapolis where Chi Chi LaRue was doing a show, and introduced them.

On behalf of gay men everywhere. we condole you, Zak. No one, and I mean absolutely no one, should have to suffer the stain of getting introduced to Chi Chi; it's just cruel and unnecessary.

by Anonymousreply 2October 7, 2018 5:30 PM

He came to ATKOL one night way back when, specifically on a night when several porn stars were posting. The ATKOL posters could be quite blunt with their questions at times especially when porn stars came to the board, but he was overly touchy and bitchy to other posters. He only last that one night if I remember correctly. But then, most porn stars who came to ATKOL only lasted one visit before they fled for their very lives.

Paul Barresi lasted a little longer, mean and nasty most of the time, before he stopped showing up.

by Anonymousreply 3October 7, 2018 5:50 PM

He's one of the easier ones to find. He's on Facebook under the name "Khris Scaramanga." He's associated with a dog walking-exercise business called Dogsport in L.A., which probably ties into R1's sightings of him.

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by Anonymousreply 4October 7, 2018 7:23 PM

He's a survivor. His he poz? Recall he got into some heavy sado stuff,,fisting even bragged about drinking blood. Yet he's still above ground. He's the Keith Richards of gay porn.

by Anonymousreply 5October 7, 2018 7:29 PM

He has some unusual videos online including fuck machine play.

by Anonymousreply 6October 7, 2018 7:46 PM

[quote]Spears was born Khristofor Lawl Rossianov

I'm pretty sure that's not a standard German spelling of his name, so I'm assuming his mother was a frau before her time.

by Anonymousreply 7October 7, 2018 7:47 PM

German? Isn't that name Russian?

by Anonymousreply 8October 7, 2018 7:57 PM

To my knowledge he never did anything for Hot Desert Knights as the OP's article claims.

by Anonymousreply 9October 7, 2018 10:28 PM

R9 It could be something of a 'technicality.' He's credited in a film called "Handball Marathon 1" (1994), which appears to have been distributed by Hot Desert Knights for Pig Play Productions.

by Anonymousreply 10October 7, 2018 11:04 PM

Ooh, that is so weird R10! I was just reading the "What is something that happened to you that you can't explain?" thread and then you come along to point out that Zak was in [italic]Handball Marathon[/italic] which was filmed at the Faultline in LA... and that's where Zak tends bar! So freaky! Maybe I'll post this story in that thread, too.

by Anonymousreply 11October 7, 2018 11:26 PM

Zak was great with his first stint at Atkol. I talked with him myself. The problem was when he "retired" and then started to leave posts that he was working out and gaining weight and when he made his "comeback," to porn, everyone thought he'd be big and ripped, like Tom Chase but in reality, all he was was fat.

So then the posters started being mean to him, and in truth he wasn't obese or anything but he wasn't what he lead people to believe. He didn't deserve to be mocked but he wasn't exactly truthful, so what did he expect?

by Anonymousreply 12October 8, 2018 1:21 PM
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