Have you ever recognized a porn performer in public unexpectedly outside of a "gay space," like a bar or club or street fair?

I met Brandon from Sean Cody at a bar/restaurant in Brentwood, TN. We talked for a few minutes while we were waiting for a table. He's cute and goofy but it is a sexy goofy, not an irritating one.

Yes, several times, back in the day (1970s San Francisco) when everyone and their brother were making porn films. Most often I saw them at parties. I particularly remember seeing a woman at a party who made a film where in once scene she pleasured herself with a cucumber. I didn't speak with her but looked at her with great fascination. Another was this big tall guy who was know for giving himself blowjobs. Don't remember his name but he was quite limber.

Matthew Rush, in his heavily roided period, on Tremont Street in Boston's South End.

The years since - the meth period - have not been kind. They seldom are.

I saw Austin Wolf in my neighborhood in NYC, near Madison Sq. Park. I think he’s a little creepy on screen, but, damn is he handsome IRL.

I recognized someone I know in a porn. Unsurprisingly, he came out as in recovery from meth a couple of years later.

Yes. I saw two YMAC guys in a Santa Monica restaurant back in the late 1980’s. And then I saw another twink porn actor in the El Torito in Sherman Oaks.

Kind of a strange feeling...

Ancient One here: I ran into Jack Wrangler back in the 70s on the subway. He was rather short. Chatted with him a bit and he invited me to see his live show at some theater down in the East Village. I went and it was pretty awful. The show I mean. In that same era I had several passing encounters on the street with Casey Donovan/Cal Culver, who was every bit as gorgeous as his photos. Glances were exchanged but I was never in a position to stop and follow up. A friend had sex with him in the Times Square BMT subway toilet. I was not envious of that, however.

Saw Richie Fine on the sidewalk in NYC. I looked at him as he walked past me, and then he stopped and looked back. Not for a cruise or hookup, more like "what are you looking at?" I moved on quickly.

Marco Paris was a shopbottom. He sold a DLer a moodring. Or a bracelet or something.

[quote]. I particularly remember seeing a woman at a party who made a film where in once scene she pleasured herself with a cucumber.

I hope it wasn't a pot luck -- and if it was, I hope she didn't bring a green salad.

I recognized a porn performer when I saw DEEP THROAT. And it wasn't Agnes Morehead.

No, no I have not.

First pron guy sighting was in 1989 in Seattle's Pike Place Market area: Vinnie Marino ("Hot Rods: Young and the Hung II", etc.) It was the first time I noticed the shorter height of some performers, more noticeable because i'm tall.

In San Francisco in the 90s, I passed Rod Garretto walking by himself near Ghirardelli Square. He gave me a friendly smile. During that same decade, I saw Jim Bentley waiting for someone in the Potrero Hill Safeway -- he really was quite handsome and magnetic in person, and didn't seem to mind being noticed in the crowded store at all.

During the last year or two, I passed my favorite, Dale Cooper, by himself on the streets of SF. He noticed me noticing him, but made no direct eye contact because he was sporting colorful, semi-incognito horn-rimmed sunglasses. He looked cute, tanned and comfortable -- and once again, shorter than I would have guessed.

Sometime since 1996 or so I was out running in Midtown in Atlanta one warm afternoon, and came down Piedmont to 10th, a big gay intersection, where there is a gay bar and used to be a popular gay bookstore, so there were a good number of people out on the sidewalk. I nearly ran into a big guy when he came around the corner, and I realized it was "Tom Katt." I stopped, at first didn't know who he was, I just thought it was someone that I knew. He smiled in a kind of flirty way and I said, "How're you doing?", and continued on my way.

In the 1970s, in New York, Marc (Mr. 10-1/2) Stevens and I lived on the same block. Whenever we would run into each other, we would go home and fuck. He liked me to fuck him. I guess he was a natural bottom, but he had to pretend to be a top in movies. I say "I guess" because I never actually saw any of his movies.

Dick Fisk and I had sex in my car after cruising each other on a side street in WeHo after the bars closed. Nice cock to suck, and he was very reciprocal. He wasn't as big as my boyfriend at the time, Craig, though.

[quote]In the 1970s, in New York, Marc (Mr. 10-1/2) Stevens and I lived on the same block. Whenever we would run into each other, we would go home and fuck. He liked me to fuck him. I guess he was a natural bottom, but he had to pretend to be a top in movies. I say "I guess" because I never actually saw any of his movies.

Marc Stevens did primarily straight porn, so he was pretty much always a top.

[Quote] He wasn't as big as my boyfriend at the time, Craig, though.

Tell us more about Craig. Any pics?

He had the face of that character actor - I can't remember his name - from the 1970s/1980s.

I hadn’t realized Ian Ziering had done porn under that name?

Early 90’s in Allentown : Turns out a buddy of mine grew up & remained good friends with Joey Stefano - real name Nick - & they would come to another friends for dinner. The first time he was introduced as Nicky & i still think that was funny because he was Joey Stefano to me- mr power bottom. Everyone that came did a double take & the elephant in the room was we all knew & he knew we knew & no one said a thing. Joey/nicky was from outside philly so not so odd I guess He was nice enough, model gandsome & had good weed.

Many years ago I was on a flight to D.C. with Falcon pornstar Brad Patton. I remember recognizing him as he walked down the aisle to the restroom. No mile high club story.

R2 I hope you refused to eat from the crudite platter she was passing around.

I've seen two that I recognized, though being in NYC, I've probably seen more and didn't recognize them. This guy Sean from Chaos Men and then this other pup, but his name escapes me at this time.

[quote]Tell us more about Craig. Any pics?

I wish.

He's one of the few people from my past whom I haven't been able to find online. And he has a relatively uncommon name, so I believe that if he were still alive, I'd've found him by now. He lived in West LA growing up, he was very pretty, he was Jewish, he was born in 1961, and he had a HUGE cock.

Joey Stefano in a NYC subway probably around 1990-91. He was standing next to me on a crowded train and started a conversation and was getting flirty. I didn't realize who it was at first. He was hot but didn't have the same type of charisma you see in his videos. I was meeting someone uptown and I was already late. He got off at Times Square and that was it.

Years later around 2007 in Hells Kitchen Rod Majors aka Matt Sanchez in a chain pharmacy, maybe Duane Reade. It was a hot summer day and I was just looking for an ice tea. I noticed him staring at me and I realized he was cruising me. He is actually hotter in person, sort of exotic. But he had sort of a creepy vibe that was unsettling. I wasn't sure whether he was looking for a "client" or a quick hook-up. I ignored him and paid and left.

Back in the day, I bought a copy of InTouch magazine that had a multi page feature on a cute red-headed guy. That very same evening he waited on me at a Studio City video store!

I didn’t have the nerve to say anything to him. I often wonder how he’d have taken a compliment.

I thought the SAME thing, R19!

r18 is Marc Stevens, as discussed in R15.

About 20 years ago, I was working at a Barnes & Noble bookstore, and Scott Randsome came in with another guy (dark-haired, equally hot and fit, but I have no idea who he was). Scott eyed me, and it was likely obvious from my surprised and nervous reaction that he surmised that recognized him. He asked me when my shift was over and if I wanted to go "party" with the two of them later that night.

At the time, I was monogamously partnered five years already, and I'm conventional with sex anyway (never had a threeway or casual sex), so I didn't take them up on it; however, after they left, I immediately got someone else to take over my post and excused myself to the restroom, where I stroked out a copious load in the toilet stall. On the way home from work, I also stopped into a sex shop and bought one of his videos and a meaty dildo comparable to his prodigious talent. Got a lot of mileage out of both.

Anyone remember Tyler Gunn from the early 2000s? He only did a handful of videos for Falcon but was really good-looking. Saw him at the Wood Ranch BBQ restaurant at the Grove in LA probably 15 years ago. He was at the bar and seemed to be waiting for someone or maybe waiting for his bartender friend to be done for the night. Small guy but so hot!

Living in LA, I'd see these guys all the time. Gym. Grocery Store. Bars. I never knew their names, but would recognize them. In LA, everyone looks familiar, and then you realize you don't know the person, they're in a national commercial, or played a small roll on something. It messes with your head and you just act like you don't recognize people.

I was at an industry event for a panel of Hollywood "somebodies/nobodies" and this guy sitting next to me started to chat me up. Very friendly and very femme gay. Out of the blue, he goes, "Hey, didn't you used to do porn!" Everyone around us heard him and all heads turned. I looked at him, wide-eyed and speechless. And he continues, "Because I could have sworn we worked together before!" I responded, "Myeah.... No. I'm a writer not an...... "actor". So, anyone can be mistaken for a porn star! Even ME!!!

I live in SF, and occasionally I see a much older Blu Kennedy, on the train and out at the clubs.

Which of these two do you resemble more?

I saw Van Darkholme on a BART train headed towards SFO.

I live in SF, and occasionally I see a much older Blu Kennedy, on the train and out at the clubs.

Trevor Knight. He must have lived in Studio City. Saw him at Bally's gym and Vons. He eyed me at the gym when I was taking a look around but didn't end up joining.

Trevor drives an ambulance now, right?

I saw someone who looked just like Connor Maguire in a grocery store in Mishawaka Indiana near the University of Notre Dame, he had a long sleeve shirt on so I couldn't check to see if this person had Connor's shamrock tattoo. I have no idea if it was him or not but it sure looked just like him.

I thought Blu Kennedy was in jail?

My ex boyfriend lived right next door to Conner Habib. I occasionally spotted him coming and going, never had an opportunity to talk to him or anything, but I understood he was very chill and nice.

On the night I was going to break up with my boyfriend, I got in the elevator, and behind me walked Conner, who said hello, smiled at me and winked. It seems that I could have had an opportunity to chat with him at the very least, and most likely flirt - and who knows, maybe follow him into his apartment....

But I was so nervous and preoccupied about my one plan for the night - to go next door to my boyfriend's apartment have the talk.

Years later, my ex and I are good friends, and it was for the best that we didn't stay together romantically. But I sometimes wonder - perhaps I should have broken up with my boyfriend AFTER hooking up with his porn star neighbor.

Do you use condoms?

In 2012 I saw Leo Giamani on a beach in Honolulu. I swear he walked out of the water in slow motion. He was wearing a red speedo and looked even better in person. Say what you will about him but that man is a god.

At Cafe Flore in 1985 I was doing Chemistry homework, glanced up, and saw ??? a guy my age (early 20's) waiting in line for coffee and looking right at me. I must have done a quadruple take, turned beet red, eyes and mouth wide open. I owned maybe 3 pron magazines and he was in one of them. So cute. He smiled and continued to look at me. I was tongue tied. Wish I'd said something. Like at least "thank you".

Eh. He can look a little ratty.

I used to see Blu Kennedy a lot in Chelsea (NY) about 10-15 years ago. He was cute but always pretending to be so amused by whomever he was always talking to on his phone.

I’d see Owen Hawk a lot on the NYC subway.

I used to see a bunch of porn stars whenever I’d go to PTown.

Echoing R39: Are you certain, R32 and R35?

In NYC, I saw Michael Lucas and Barrett Long at Barracuda. Erik Rhodes was ubiquitous in the gay bar scene in Manhattan, too. I didn’t live there, but saw him on two different trips.

The most fun sighting was Amateur Straight Guys’ original Paul at an airport on his way to Kansas City. He could tell I recognized him and gave a sweet smile.

A couple of generations ago. Mid-'80s I was waiting innocently at a bus stop on Sunset Blvd. a couple of blocks from my apt one afternoon and up drives porn star Tim Kramer in a red convertible sports car. I thought he was lost and just wanted to ask directions, but he was cruising me and picked me up. I was shocked. He asked to go to my place. We did. I knew very well who he was and though he must have been stood up by a client. No money was exchanged or requested. I couldn't believe I'd be his type for free. Maybe he was just horny. I remember he was much taller and imposing in person, very handsome, nice big dick, and an extremely clean butt that he loved getting eaten. He was a very nice guy. I felt honored to have been able to help him out. I'll always remember that encounter.

I think the Sire site reported that Blu Kennedy is out of jail. The child porn was on the boyfriend's computer. I can't remember the charge against Blu. I think he still counts as a sex offender.

R46, yes indeed I'd seen him around as late as last November.

yes, once, he was coming out of a gym somewhere near the castro once when I was visiting SF. I cant remember his name but he was a big guy and I read later that he moved to Dallas and he is hooking now, or was ............. altho he is past 40 probably now. Somehow I also remember his dad was a doctor. He dated another porn actor and they did at least one porn dvd together while a couple.

I had a close friend when I was living in santa fe who I found out after I knew him for a while that he did porn around 1979, early 80 s. He was fairly well known then for a few years. HE told me............ and told me the names of the films as well. It was weird but I never ever got any sexual vibe from him where he was sexual at all. And I dont mean that he never hit on me, I mean he didnt come across as a very sexual person, period. He parlayed that gig into having a wealthy well known sugar daddy for a few years but a real career never really worked out for him in any area. He also had a real inferiority complex despite his looks in his younger years and his endowment, shall we say, which was part of the reason he did porn. I knew that................. as the way we got to know each other was at the gym.

R42 Leo Giamani.

Leo again.

too bad he was a shitty performer. Looked boring fucking both men and women

R30 lucky you

Sean Davis who mainly appeared in Falcon videos in the early 1990s. He worked at a video rental shop in Oxford Street Sydney for a year or so - I used to rent films on a regular basis. It is also the same video shop used in Muriel's Wedding where Toni Collette's character works in the film when she moves to Sydney.

My partner also saw Sean Davis once at the local supermarket around that time with a woman and a child but said they didn't look like a couple - probably just friends.

Just remembered I saw John Holmes once, eating breakfast at Denny’s in Encino.

... and Disney star Dean Jones in another booth! How’s that for a twosome?

i saw Jack Wrangler and Margaret Whiting outside the Village Gate ./ Bleeker St/NYC waiting to get into a show.. It was during the last century...

I saw Leo Ford pissing at a urinal in a gay bar in Honolulu, Hawaii.

He smiled at me shook his dick and put it away. he was. coked out of his mind.

In the early '90s, I played with a Latin porn actor at the gay porn movie house on Eighth Avenue in NYC. I don't remember his name, Ed somebody. Nice cock, beautiful foreskin, very playful guy.

Technically not outside of a gay environment, although he was there as a general member of the crowd not performing - I saw former Titan Men porn star Marco Blaze at Pride once, shirtless. He looked smaller than he did on camera, sadly didn't get to see that big perfect dick.

Anyone ever seen blaze Thomason?

I live in NYC....on 23rd street I passed the late Erik Rhodes early one morning, this was c. 2009....riding the subway I saw Parker London one time and Max Ryder another time.

I spent 30 years in LA mostly in WeHo and South Bay. Porn stars were as common as pigeons. My last spotting was exiting the N.Hollywood subway station. Behind me on the escalator Robert Axel was chatting up some guy. Looked like they were on the way to a shoot. He was holding a modeling folio. He is huge and even more gorgeous in person. Heads were turning.

Rocco Siffredi many times, most recently at Cucina Mutualité in Paris and La Scala in Milan.

A million years ago I watched a Falcon film (?) w my best friend. It was one where they tried to act. A beautiful guy was on his stomach saying, “Fuck me. I just really need someone to fuck me.” We thought it was hilarious and would always say it to each other whenever we saw a desperate guy at a bar. Always laughed. About a year later I got cast in a show. Assigned my dressing room. My dressing roommate walks in and it’s Fuck Me live and in person. Turned out to the the sweetest kid in the world. Great dancer. Always got the impression he was haunted by his past. Never brought it up.

Late 90's I was walking down 8th Ave in NYC and recognized Tim Lowe. This was after his prison stint but he still looked hot. I followed a little to check out his ass and then he turned and enter, I think it was the Show Palace. Later I checked the Village Voice and saw he was appearing there that week. Pretty sleazy place but always had a thing for Tim. Spent $40 and basically played with his dick while he sat in my lap. I miss old NYC

R67, what porn star isn't haunted by their past? That's why they're in porn. Unfortunately sex and drugs aren't the way to deal with it.

I once saw Jamie Gillis on the subway. We caught eyes for a moment, smiled a little, a nod of the head, and off he went.

I'm not a porn star by any means, I really don't have the body, confidence or looks for it (but I do have an above average sized cock) but I did have some videos I'd performed in put on x-Tube about 10 years ago.

I've often been messaged on apps from people who saw them and remembered me, even this week I've had another one.

But a much weirder experience has been when people have come up to me in the street and said they'd seen them and loved them. It only happened 2 or 3 times but it was incredibly flattering, and amusing the way that they're were not sure if it was me or not and how they brought the subject up.

And I saw the really hot Dolan Wolf once and I did go up to him and said how much I'd enjoyed his videos. He was really nice and said '"That's why I do them" but then I got really tongue tied and didn't know what to say, and I would have been crushed if I'd flirted and it wasn't reciprocated. I felt like a real idiot and just sort of shuffled away.

r65 wow I remember him. Gay porn really did die in the 2010s. Quality in looks dimished greatly. Though we are due for a renaissance due to the impending depression.

I don't think the man at r65 is handsome. Pumped up, yes. Handsome, no.

R60, was that bar the original Hulas with the huge banyan tree? In the late 1980s, I saw Leo Ford outside Hulas promoting his tour company. He was gorgeous, so tanned with such beautiful blond hair. I regret not taking one of his snorkeling tours.

R63 Do you mean Blade Thompson?

R71 / with hindsight / did you ever regret your decision to do your videos? curious here/ thanks in advance

One day I stood next to Richard Locke waiting for the light to change in the village. I did a double take because that was so unexpected and he just smiled. I saw Johnny Dawes in one of the public library branches in NYC and was so tempted to go up to him and tell him how much I liked him in 'Pleasure Beach' and the other film he did with Michael Christopher. I felt it would just to be too weird to do so so I didn't. I regret that. Another time I saw Jamie Gillis and a woman at an UES restaurant. He was better looking in person and he smiled when he left because I just kept staring at him.

Yes. Jamie Gillis did have a nice smile, especially in person

Scott Ohara.

Met him in NYC and had sex the first time at an East Village XXX video store. Was in San Francisco a year later and ran into him at an after hour's sex club and had another great orgasm. Finally a couple of years later met him at the Unicorn Club Chicago and he recognized me from NYC/SF and came into my room and started talking and I actually had a nice conversation with him and then we had sex. I topped him in the private room I rented....he is way too big for me and he needed to really work it to keep it hard. His ass was very plump and quite amazing. The first two encounters was oral only....loved playing with that big cock. He was a sensuous man. RIP.

These stories of porn stars crushing gigs makes me think they were sex addicts. I can’t imagine doing that for work and still wanting sex clubs after.

Recently, I've seen Jake Morgan riding his bike in Chicago. Others I've seen on the street or in restaurants include Jason Adonis, Clay Towers, Matt Cole, Trent Davis, Dean Flynn, shane Frost and others.

R80 here. I admit I was a sex addict in my late 20s into my early 30s. Drugs fueled this. Luckily for me, I always used condoms and am ok health wise. Wisdom comes a little later for some of us.

Zach Alexander was a high school science teacher in a wealthy northern virginia suburb of DC. A former student saw one of his films online & tweeted it out to his friends. The school got rid of him (rumor is they paid him off to go away) but he was very friendly and a good teacher.

I would have been teacher's pet, r84.

[Quote] I can’t imagine doing that for work and still wanting sex clubs after.

Shooting porn is not sexually satisfying. It's very stop/start. There are awkward positions. The performers have to "cheat out." And they don't necessarily gel.

I used to see Wilfried Knight at my gym in Portland, OR. He would wear tiny soccer shorts, and everyone would hold their breath when he got on the treadmill or the Stairmaster because we would get the most amazing free show. He was very normal and especially friendly, and did a great job of downplaying his awareness of the effect he had on everyone.

I would also see him out at gay clubs (particularly Silverado) with his boyfriend, who eventually committed suicide and who in his goodbye note asked Wilfried to follow suit (he did, a month later).

I've seen both Samuel Stone and Jessy Karson on the streets in Montreal. They were shorter than I would have thought. I didn't say anything to them, just kept walking.

Jim Bentley told a story in an interview several years ago of being at a restaurant dining with his mother. Apparently they were in some sort of nut growing business together at the time. He said during their meal "this old queen" walks up and starts fawning over him calling him by his porn name right in front of his mother and he had to think fast to get rid of the old fool

More fool "Jim" for doing something he didn't 100% stand behind.

Jim Bentley basically lives in a park up the street from me in West Hollywood on Kings road. He is pretty mentally ill now but seems harmless. He is ALWAYS talking to someone imaginary and only sometimes shouting and angry. Sometimes it seems the person is there and sometimes he talks as if he in on a phone (which he is not). He is balding on top but with a pony tail in back, very thin. So sad.

Jack Wrangler in the mid 80s through a glory hole, at none other than the infamous Adonis Theater in NYC, the very same theater where he filmed the famous porn A Night At The Adonis . He was orally gratifying this guy who was standing before him. I watched till the end. Yes, Jack took the entire load without spilling a drop. The buy zipped up and left and Jack, still on his knees, looked over at me through the GH, stood up, and put his meat through and I did the same for him.

If he'd only known that he and I had met before, after one of his performances of his traveling one man sex show years before.

You always remember your first. Al Parker at Superstar Video in the Castro c. 1987. I was a pup in my twenties and very star struck. He was a beautiful man. I had just moved to the neighborhood and had beat off to his movies a million times. I’m sure I stopped dead in my tracks, and my jaw dropped. It wouldn’t have fit, he was huge. Lol....The first of dozens, as many have already noted. I later moved to the San Fernando Valley, where I encountered even more. It’s always fun.

R91 that is very sad

Years ago I was working in Germany. I was shopping for CDs in a WOM store and got picked up by this hot guy, who took me to his place nearby. Great body! I was fucking him, standing at the foot of his bed with him on his back and his feet over my shoulders. He came -And shot the biggest load I've ever seen onto the wall at the head of the bed. It looked like over a cup of semen, I kid you not! It was a big splotch on the wall, dripping down. There was also a trail of cum across his chest, face, and the head of the bed. I was totally blown away, and told him he should do porn. He laughed and said he did -He thought I had recognized him in the music store but I was clueless. He worked for Kristen Bjorn. He's the one on the right in the picture (Vampire of Budapest).

Was he Hungarian?

I spotted Chip Nicolas aka Niko in a Burger King in Culver City in the early 2000s. He was a straight model-performer who did some solo gay scenes, appeared in Playgirl and did some straight (softcore?) scenes. I saw him dance at Micky's in WeHo once - he was super friendly and had no problem with all the attention from gay men. When I saw him at Burger King it looked like he was with his mom and sister so I didn't approach him.

I spotted Rocco Reed in church last sunday. He was taking communion.

Talk about a lame gangbang. I'm sure Rocco and the Tops are equally responsible.

Is that what the priests are calling it these days, r98?

Those Rocco Reed scenes baffle me. Wouldn't he make more hooking than doing a gangbang scene? I don't think gangbangs are as popular with gay audiences as they are with straight.

I sat next to Goatse at a Black Hole show at a planetarium in New Jersey.

Yeah I was waiting on line to get my Stevie Nicks DVD signed and big-dicked 90s porn stud Mike Nichols was on line too. Looks rode hard and put away wet. Gray hair, crix belly, poz face. I recognized his pentagram ring and slightly buggy eyes. Has a femme voice. He’s a flight attendant, I think I heard him say American Airlines.

R103 I didn’t realize Stevie Nicks did gay porn?

Well, she took coke up the ass.

R103 my, aren't you gracious. And I bet you have money like Rockefeller and shoulders like Johnny Weissmuller.

Do you remember the guy's name, r67?

[quote] I sat next to Goatse

Who?

oh, honey

Do. Not. r108

Damn I guess I've just lived in the wrong places. I had always though Nick aka Joey Stefano was cute as all hell. I would have tapped his ass.

Trent Davis, at my former gym in Chicago

He is VERY hostile to anyone who recognizes him. Total bitchy asshole

Stevie Nicks was signing DVDs of a documentary they did of one of her albums, she was at a Barnes and Noble in Manhattan.

Poor Mike Nichols, well I suppose the side effects of the HIV cocktail are a small price to pay for surviving Treasure Island Media. I guess being a stewardess didn’t pay enough.

Don't LOOK AT ME!

I laugh when I remember the interview Mike Nichols did many years ago where he said he was constantly begged by the porn studios to bottom. He said "when they come up with $5000.00, I'll consider it". I imagine today he'd do it on camera for $500.00. But then, I doubt anyone is offering.

What's the point of being so mean about Mike Nichols - he performed for our pleasure, apparently worked a low-paid thankless legit job, got HIV and managed to survive it seems, and got old. Where is it reported that Mike Nichols is begging for porn work in 2020? What was wrong with asking for a decent payout, back then? You're probably nasty cunts to old stewards today. And I'm sure you look and smell like rancid trolls.

Take a chill pill lady. This is a bitch gay gossip site, not the D.A.R..

Dean Coxx at the gym. The place was packed. This was in a 24 Hour Fitness in Orange County California. It was so weird to watch the men watching HIM. You could pick out every closeted gay in the room, by paying attention to who was sneaking looks at him while trying to act casual. No one spoke to him and he just acted oblivious.

Yes, [R96] he was Hungarian -Well, my recollection is that he said he was Romanian, but lived and worked in Hungary before coming to Germany. But it was a one-nighter a long time ago. I don't know whether my memory is at fault, or his truthfulness... ;)

actually Mike Nichols got finger banged and dildoed in one of his last scenes, while in a sling. Hairy ass, I like it.

Sean “Foot Long” Davis from Falcon. He was working as a bartender at a bar in Sydney, Australia—his home country. He was very friendly and gave me free drinks after I acknowledged him and his ‘impact’.

[quote] Trent Davis, at my former gym in Chicago

A beautiful guy, but incredibly fucked up. He loathed being a porn star, and so he would be very rude to fans, even for professional obligations like AMA chats.

A friend of mine is friends with Conner Habib. I got invited to brunch with them and one other guy. I'm actually not really familiar with his porn work but I had read a recent interview of his on the str8up porn blog and it suddenly dawned on me midway through brunch who it was. He's completely open about the porn and he went on to talk about it later. Interesting guy - doing a PhD in folklore now and has a very popular podcast about a whole range of subjects. Was asking us for ideas for guests he could have on.

oh yeah, once Kieran from Treasure Island (in London) but in a "gay space" so I guess it doesn't count.

I was doing cardio by the windows of Crunch near Union Square in NYC when I saw Levi Michaels pass by outside.

He looked gorgeous but seemed like he was running late to a client appointment.

Who? And how did you intuit he had a whore appt and furthermore was late?

This guy. I don't know his porn name, but I met him in Torremolinos, Spain. Met him in 2014 while visiting on vacation and he was there at the same time. He told me his name was Karel, but I don't think that was the name he used in porn. He was from some small city in Hungary. He was very interested in moving to NYC and he thought I was his ticket there, but I wasn't, no matter how big the dick. He was very sensual and the sex was good, the dick stayed hard and did not deflate. I did not let him fuck me because of the overall size, and also, I am a once in a blue bottom. I didn't want to go the a Spanish ER. Great vacation. My best friend and I both met some amazing guys on that trip, we still laugh about it today.

r127, that's Trevor Yates most famously of Bel Ami. Like most Eastern European performers he had several aliases but he went by Karel Grosse for William Higgins. Interesting he stayed hard for you because I seem to recall he always seemed to have trouble getting/staying hard in his scenes.

Another Scott O'Hara sighting...in San Francisco in a cafe in the Castro in the 90s while on vacation with my mother.

I discreetly pointed him out to my mother who murmured in that way moms do, "Him? He's so scrawny!"

Sadly, it was a couple years before he died.

Looked up Blu Kennedy...he got off with 5 years probation and he DOESN'T have to register as a sex offender so it looks like he was just a patsy.

Jeff Stryker and his entourage of elder gentleman at Ed Debevic's restaurant on La Cienega Blvd. in LA in the late 80's.

R130, he is indeed on the sex offender registry. Look up Benjamin Martin on Megan's Law site.

Turns out I played rugby with Lex Kyler for years. Didn’t know it was him at first.

Of course, also know the other famous gay rugby porn Star well before he got into porn.

I knew a guy who was Jake Bass' boyfriend at one point. When I asked him how Jake was as a lover, he told me they never fucked (and that Jake was pretty average for a porn model). Jake was fucked up, and would smoke up whenever they were together, to relieve the tension. I'm sure they did everything except anal, but he eventually broke up with Jake, cause he was too high maintenance and couldn't handle dealing with someone who had so many problems.

I think Jake now models to earn a living, since he's been out of the porn scene for so long.

Anyone ever encounter Canadian Justin LeBeau?

Caio is gay for pay, and is worth the price of admission. He is very sweet and has a good sense of humor. He is from Brazil and has a minimal amount of education so his employment prospects down the road are limited. Help him feather his nest while he is still attractive.

Jamie Gillis at a rest stop in Connecticut around 2003. Would love to have done him. George Payne in a porn theatre in midtown NYC. Saw each other in the seats (it was one of his films!) and followed each other to the bathroom. I think he wanted money (not sure) so I chatted and then left. Roger (remember him) at a gay porn theatre in NYC (he was doing a "show"). Tons of straight and gay porn stars on the street of Greenwich Village in the 70s and 80s and 90s. Also soap actors.

I've seen Colby Keller twice -- the first on the sidewalk on the Upper East Side; I was walking to the Met, he was strolling along with some friends and wearing jeans that were totally ripped up around around his ass. This was at least ten years ago before he became a nightmare Trumper prick so I was still a fan. He is very very tall. The second time I saw him was a few years after that in my NY office building by the elevators -- I don't know what he was there for.

Saw Danny Sommers tending bar in North Hollywood. Very sweet and totally appreciative of his adoring fans.

I've seen tons of porn gays in bars over the years, my fave was Damon Dawgg. Bumped into him alot on SF. He's basically a cum dumpster on camera and very funny and unihibited. He would come into the bar. Take his clothes off and sit naked at the bar. all night His BF at the time, Jessie O Toole was a pornie too. On video he was this tatoo'ed trade top. But Jessie would come into the bar dressed to the tee like an Andrews Sister.

R136. Surely Caio must use supplements to fuck his customers.

Saw Lane Fuller at a Kathy Griffin show. I guess that’s not entirely outside a gay space, lol

R75 Yes the original Hula's! The new one sucks now. I also saw him peeing in a urinal at Mary's next door.

As my friends and I were underage we used to go back and forth because there be different doormen depending on the time.

Being gay in the late eighties was a great time in Waikiki, wasn't it?

^^^^ Yes. Loved to sit under the Banyan Tree at Hulas and cruise the Hawaiian boys.

I saw Ken in Aspen Colorado skiing with 2 very gay looking men and a middle aged woman in 1998. He was stunning in person. I wanted to rip his ski suit off and jump his muscular bones, but somehow contained my non Christian urges. Nobody seemed to say anything to him even though there were a few gays in the crowd, probably with hard ons under their parkas and leggings.

R144 he was popular when I was young teenager looking my first pron videos and gay magazines. I so wanted him. I can imagine all you gays wanted him naked then and there.

A couple of years ago, I saw Danny D/Matt Hughes in the waiting room of a clinic in London.

Until he walked in, everybody else had been keeping themselves to themselves - reading or on their phones. The minute he sat down all the gays were looking at each other in wide-eyed wonderment. I felt a bit sorry for him.

R146 Clinic has a different meaning here in the states I think? Do you mean a regular doctor’s office, or more along the lines of a STD clinic, which is what I think of when that word is used in the US?

Al Parker at Gay Pride in Boston years ago. At first, I didn't recognize him because he was so short. He had on a yellow t and baseball cap.

It was a sexual health clinic, R147. I was there for a regular check-up, as I imagine why he - being a sexual active adult and porn performer - was also there.

(By way of saying I'm not implying on a public forum that somebody had an STI).

Wonder what Matt Hughes and his huge dick are up to these days?

How does Matt Hughes look in person? I don’t think he is particularly good looking - curious if he looks better in person. Also how tall?

An acquaintance of mine once told me he used to see Bruno in his gym in the village. This was in the 80s. I wanted any and all info because Bruno was so Hot. This acquaintance said "Meh, he's okay. Not such a great body." I thought Are You Nuts?

R142, oh yeah, I loved the original Hulas. It was so nice to be in an outdoor bar with that huge banyan tree. It was the friendliest bar, with a nice mix of tourists and local guys. And I liked that long latrine in the restroom with a mirror that was tilted at just the right angle. There was also that bathhouse (I forget the name) that was just a block away. It had a gang shower that was always active. Yeah, the 80s in Waikiki were definitely a fun, fun time.

There were several guys who did porn living in Denver in the late 90s. Logan Reed was a fixture at all the popular gay spots. He was quiet in a snobby way. He liked to be called by his porn name and hated it when people used his real first name, Larry. I attached his pic.

Another guy who went by the name of Alex Sommers or something like that worked at one of the bars. I remember he showed us one of his videos where he was being fucked by Rod Barry and told us how none of the fuck scenes were real and how Rod's dick was only in him for about 10 minutes out of a 3 hour shoot. I always remember that because at the time I thought Rod Barry was hot and that disappointed me. Alex was really sweet and is the only porn performer I've met who didn't have a drug problem.

There was another guy who went by Ricky (can't remember the last name) that was in a few Studio 2000 movies back in the day who rode his bike around shirtless all the time. I'm pretty sure he was a courier for a weed dealer.

And before he was famous I knew Brad Benton/Dylan Vox. He is exactly how he portrays himself in the media and is actually much better looking in person. He dated a friend and then moved away. Didn't see him or think about him until me and my friends saw him on the cover of a porn video advertisement in the local gay rag.

The one thing they all had in common was they were all under 5'8" tall.

I can only recognize them if they are completely naked, so no.

I saw a couple of the fratpad guys when I worked near paradise valley.

I rather see a NY Yankee or NY Net player, preferably naked.

This might not count, but saw a woman I knew in another context in a solo porn spread. It used her real name.

Matt Hughes in his finer days. I wonder if he is settled down with 2 baby big dicks yet.

yummmmmmmm

Matt Hughes/Danny D continues to produce and perform in straight porn.

In person, he's tall and lanky. Truth be told, one probably wouldn't look at him twice were it not for the knowledge that he's packin' a third leg.

Just an observation, Matt Hughes seemed to be very attracted to some of the guys he fucked.

Even with viagra he is having fun!

As a preteen in the mid 80s, I had a crush on a store clerk at a Dallas video rental store. Years later I saw my first gay porn film, The Young and The Hung which starred Christopher Lance. I thought at the time that he was a dead ringer for my early crush but of course I didn’t think it could possibly be him. Years later I learned Christopher Lance was from Dallas so it might have been him.

Poor Jim Bentley was ape shit crazy twenty years ago.

I clicked on R164's link. Porn videos cost $60 in 1986?

Yes, and they were VHS 📼 tapes!

Years ago, around 1993, I saw 80s-90s Latino porn star Chris Stone at my gym in downtown DC. I did a double-take and had to keep it together because he was my favorite porn star at the time and I had jerked off to him many times. He was with someone and looked as though he was just trying to have a good workout. It was nice seeing him though. Looked just as hot in person.

R168. I remember going to DC for a tourist weekend in the 80s and saw him too. He was so small I was really taken aback.

Marc from Sean Cody in a computer lab on campus.

r169, he was quite short. That took me by surprise as well.

Saw former Helix twink Troy Ryan several years ago in a day lodge at Breckenridge Resort when he lived in Denver. Would have happily yanked down his snowboard pants and sucked his big, fat cock in a restroom stall.

pic of Troy

Drats - let's try that again.

I saw Sam otool in a restaurant in Chicago. He was two seats down at the bar. Looked pretty damn hot.

I use to see Max Grand all about in LA in the late 90s. He would be at the bars and other gay hang outs, pretty friendly and talkative.

Anyone have an update. He was very hunky in a natural way. He wasn't some overblown-up roid queen.

Happened a lot when I worked at an airline check in counter at a major U.S. airport. I would usually think "Oh so THAT's your real name." At the time the most notable was Rex Chandler, I alerted the gay gate staff, who in turn told the flight attendants, so they could see.

Also saw some at A.A. meetings downtown, but I shall respect their anonymity.

Rex Chandler was hot. I hope he wasn't traveling with some old queen for a weekend away.

"Was" is the word. He looked a bit past his prime, and he was alone.

What is Max Grand doing these days? [R176] stirred up some great memories! I bet he's still as hot as ever.

good god, no, OP.

they are beneath recognition.

In Studio City. 1990 something, Next door to Video West was a Ski Shop. I was returning some DVD's when I saw a trick I wanted to avoid so I ducked into the ski shop. I was pretending to look a skis when the salesman came up to me saying " See anything ya like ?." It was ...

...Kevin Spacey trying time pick up Rex Chandler?

r176, I may have posted this already but when I moved to LA about 20 years ago I kept running into Max Grand at various spots around West Hollywood. I always thought he was hot and in my youthful naivete I wanted to believe it was some kind of sign from the universe that we were supposed to meet. Sadly he never gave me a second glance. Also in my youthful naivete I didn't know that porn stars were often paid escorts and most of the times I saw him he was probably on the clock with other men.

I almost bumped into Jake Steel on the sidewalk in Chelsea maybe a decade ago (he was preoccupied, probably headed to work at his Lucas Entertainment gig). And I saw Michael Lucas himself with what I assume was his mother at the Metropolitan Opera. My favorite, though, was in the early 90s seeing Steve Hammond in the main lounge at the Yale Club (didn't have the nerve to stay and see who he was meeting).

I observed Rusty Stevens in a Bay Area grocery store. He looks the same in person. He was clean shaven, but I think he looks better with a beard.

If I didn't think he was gay4pay before, I sure thought so then. He was busy checking out the young women shopping and completely ignored the good-looking men who passed by. That killed a lot of his appeal for me.

R184. Movined to LA in 1985. Young dumb and full of cum. My friend was the boy toy of Joel Schumacher or the "Crypt Keeper" as he called him. Was invited to his b'day party at Falcon Lair. Boys galore 24 / 7. Around 2am things picked up. As his birthday cake was in the pool. The "official" guests were filing out. The Crypt Keeper asked us to stay. He made a call. Suddenly dozens of the hottest boys showed up. Being a horny porn addict I recognized at least half a dozen porn "stars". I was so naive I went to my friend and stage whispered. " Do you know these guys are PORN STARS".! He cracked up. Later found me sharing a hot tub with Johnny Davenport and Nick/Joey Stephano Most memorable was when Jeff Converse kept bending over in front of me while throwing another log on the fire. He actually was carrying a briefcase. The Rube asked him " So what do you do?" He responded dead pan " I sell oil in China."

I immediately noticed this guy's ass in tight denim pants while waiting on the 59th street subway station. It was spectacular and attached to a tall lean man. He then turns around and it was Arpad Miklos. I looked briefly stunned but gave him a slight head nod and he broke into a big happy smile and nodded back. Only six months later he killed himself and I felt very sad.

Another Matthew Rush sighting...probably 15 years ago at a Target store near downtown Dallas. Early in the morning, too. It was jarring. He looked handsome at the time.

I was into most of the guys mentioned above....the stars of the 90s...would love to know some first hand information on their whereabouts today.

Matt Rush was a friend of an ex and was always sort of on the periphery when I was with them. I worked at a bar and he'd come in as well. Always seemed to be fucked up, but a nice enough guy.

His porn days are in the past.

Not fair, R192.

That was his mugshot from a drug bust many years ago. He's been out for several years now and it's possible he's pulled himself back together.

Quite possible that he is now CEO of a Fortune 500 company

The most recent arrest wasn't "many years ago" unless two years is "many."

But he sent his love and said he's fine three days before his second arrest.

Yes. Enrico Vargas on a bench by the Hudson, Peter Berlin in the Ramble, and Antonio Biaggi at Cafe Havana in Chelsea, who acknowledged my partner and me with a knowing smile. We might have missed an opportunity that time.

I know Antonio is a full top, but he has a cute ass that I would love to fuck.

Antonio has an ugly cock. Aren’t Puerto Rican’s taught English in school? Why is his English so poor?

The poor guy tried to escape porn by opening up a trinket shop but it failed and he went back to porn. Then he tried to escape some guy he was dating who was a crystal mess and violent but he goes back to the same type of guys. Smh.

[quote]Aren’t Puerto Rican’s taught English in school?

Apparently you missed a few days yourself.

it was autocorrected there

- R198

Correct your autocorrecting, r200, or turn it off.

Sadly never spotted any gay porn stars. I live in flyover land and rarely traveled out. Yes, I'm poor.

When I went with a straight friend to NYC many years ago, we stopped at a Macy's and he recognized a woman working there as porn star Marlene Willoughby. She was pretty in person, very tall and thin, nice skin, well dressed. Seemed classy. Wouldn't have guessed she was a porn star. I think she noticed she was recognized and smiled at us. My friend loved that.

I used to basically live at Mickey's in the late 90s so I'm sure I saw many but the one that sticks out is seeing Max Grand pass me while walking down the Boulevard. Shorter than I imagined but just absolutely gorgeous.

Ken Ryker at the Barnes & Noble in Valencia. Not short at all and breathtakingly hot. Blond hair, jean shorts, tank top, sneakers... He was seated reading so I made it a point to sit in the next available chair next to him. He sat for awhile and then left. I was 21 at the time so I must not have been his type or he was going straight.

Saw Jon Dough and his wife/gf at the Target in Granada Hills. Very tall and sexy. They were talking to some guy they knew and I just spent some time checking him out.

Met up with Leo Masters and ended up blowing/rimming him. At the time he was literally living on some old dude's closet in WeHo. We smoked a joint and then made out and I finished him off.

Saw Falcon's Jason Tyler working at a Target (what is the deal with porn stars and Target?) in upstate NY. Cute as fuck but I think he was poz by then.

There is this guy Brandon Blake who has done some scenes and didn't realize I worked with him at an Amazon fulfillment center up until a year or so ago. Nothing special. At least not compared to the others I had previously come across.

Anyone ever met Dan Fisk?

R[OP] "Again, I just let him be, but here it was because i couldn't figure out what I'd say to him. ("I've fapped to you before!")" You might want to try that line... that's how my ex ending up in a hotel room with Rex Chandler.

R80, you're lucky to still be talking about your experience with Scott. May he RIP.

R80 here. Yes I know. I am ok. He was special, may he RIP.

[quote]that's how my ex ending up in a hotel room with Rex Chandler.

We're going to need more details, r205. Was this a male partner? I thought Chandler was strictly gay-for-pay.

One whom I saw at a gay bar quite frequently was Shay Michaels--he and his boyfriend (can't remember his name--he was also a very shortlived gay porn performer, and was also muscular) used to walk into Silverado, which is a gay strip club in Portland, quite regularly and they'd stand in a very conspicuous spot and stare into the crowd and comment unsmilingly to one another. I couldn't figure out what their deal was because they didn't seem to be having a good time, and they wouldn't look at the strippers, either. (This was unlike Wilfried Knight, who would come with his partner but they'd watch the strippers and seem to be having a good time.) Eventually I wondered if Shay and his partner were there just to see if either a third person would approach them and ask to join in for sex, or if they were advertising themselves for prostitution. Since I found neither Shay nor his partner attractive, I never asked.

Later they broke up, and I heard Shay moved to Arizona.

[quote] Ken Ryker at the Barnes & Noble in Valencia. Not short at all and breathtakingly hot. Blond hair, jean shorts, tank top, sneakers... He was seated reading so I made it a point to sit in the next available chair next to him. He sat for awhile and then left. I was 21 at the time so I must not have been his type or he was going straight.

I have no idea what Ken Ryker's actual sexuality is, but I do know he identifies as straight. He is now married and lives with his wife and kids in the Black hills of South Dakota.

My friend once bummed a cigarette off of Jeff Stryker at a DGA screening/event. Stryker said, "Just don't tell anyone where you got it." I loved that. A perfect reply somehow.

Rawtop squeegied my windshield at a red light in Queens once.

Living in NYC I have seen a lot of porn actors who are mostly in Lucas films, they are usually to be found in Chelsea or Hells Kitchen and they usually look stoned or on meth. I guess when they aren't filming they are selling themselves to the highest bidder and that must take a lot of drugs to keep up and stay up.

I would have loved to have seen Ken Ryker in person back in the 90s but I don't think he was in NYC too often, at least not with free time to walk the streets. He is an icon because so many talk about him decades later. I somehow doubt Rafael Alencar will be remembered fondly in 2045. Rafael in clothes is nothing special.

Did he keep up the conversation, r211? "You like that big smoke? Yeah, suck that stick!"

"Soooooo, I think I'm gonna exhale. Yeah, lick that filter."

I've seen Rob Yaeger a few times in Chelsea. He's not my usual type, but it still works. The man is hot to death.

So you're saying the Grim Reaper is a narcissist? Dude looks like death warmed over to me.

[quote] Dude looks like death warmed over to me.

I won't disagree with you. Nothing about him suggests he should be hot, but in his porn and the few times I've seen him around town, he still is somehow strangely and uniquely hot. I don't like blonde. I don't like milky white skin. I don't like rheumy blue eyes. He's got all of that, but the sexual energy still radiates out of this guy. I can't explain it.

No, R214/215, my buddy said thanks and walked off. Didn't want to push his luck. But Stryker was nice, at least. I have a feeling a lot more sane in general than we might expect.

Do straight guys count? Once ran into Brian Pumper at this mall in LA, with lots of jewelry on along with his bodyguard (at least he seemed like his personal security). He was busy shopping yet he didn't seem to mind being approached by me. We were conversing like we knew each other, if that makes sense.

I recall meeting Robbie Tallas' girlfriend at a Bruins' Wives Charity Carnival back in the 90s. Scuttlebutt was she was a porn starlet, and she certainly looked the part, though I have no idea which one she was.

Other than that brush with mediocrity, all the porn stars I've bumped into have been in gay spaces like a nightclub strip show (Alec Powers) or Grindr (Griffin Barrows, Austin Wolf). But one of the Fratpad guys is from a nearby town and recently moved back to the area, I'll doubtless cross paths with him at a sporting event or fair eventually.

[quote]I know Antonio is a full top

On camera, anyway. His hole looks like it's seen its share of action.

[quote]Jessie O Toole was a pornie too. On video he was this tatoo'ed trade top. But Jessie would come into the bar dressed to the tee like an Andrews Sister.

LOL! Patty, Maxene, or LaVerne?

[quote] Jessie O Toole was a pornie too.

Was? As in Retired? Or, as in Obituary?