Legendary Gay pornographer David Hurles is dead to me

Articles liked to his wiki page are great reads.

Fascinating guy…and friend of John Waters.

r1 Indeed I have clicked onto a few of them myself.It does seem he took big risks with the kind of guys he accepted as models for his photo shoots.

Bump!!

I normally don't care about any of these porn threads or porn stars threads, but I admit this whole Old Reliable story seems much more interesting than the whole, he's hot and young and muscled so let's all care about fucking him. I do think there's just more of a story with David Hurles and I'd like to know more about him.

[quote] Legendary Gay Pornographer David Hurles

The word 'legend' means 'a traditional story sometimes popularly regarded as historical but not authenticated' or 'an extremely famous person'.

Thank you Mr. Dictionary. Now if you're done spurting out definitions, what do you think of Legendary Gay Pornographer David Hurles?

Old Reliable flicks were right up there with Burns' documentaries. In fact, David McCullough did some voice over work for Five Days With Phil if memory serves.

Streaming!

r5 Has the meaning not expanded , even in dictionaries to have a broader application in certain circumstances? I know whis doesnt happen with all words but with many it does.

r4 I feel the same curiosity.

Sad!!!

[quote] Old Reliable flicks were right up there with Burns' documentaries

Does that mean all the pictures have been photoshopped? The music score is full of syrupy tunes and the commentary is full of Woke sentimentailty?

Uh, I was thinking in terms big greasy cocks.

I need to get my hands on those tapes!

You'll need two hands.

Wow, this one really hits home. I stumbled upon my first Old Reliable tape back in the late Eighties by accident in an adult video store. I had never seen anything like it before. These were not the polished works featuring Jeff Stryker. This was about as gritty and real as you could get. Changed my view of porn entirely. Adios , David!

Hes the reason I cant stand studio porn. I 1st discovered him in the 70s and since his men were exactly my type,it was a mutually satisfying relationship. My 1st husband absolutely would not share me with other men,but he would let me have porn and Old Reliable was both of ours favorite. If I had a dime for every load I spilled to OR Id be a millionaire !

Old Reliable was like the early version of Gemini Men. Virtually all the guys had done jail time.

The Advocate is still printing/posting stories related to actual gay men?!!

R18 Lets hope the fashion for mental illness is dying off.

But I was just getting used to homeless junkies keening on my local contemporary folk radio station.

This thread is useless without pics.

You need glasses then, gramps.

I used to have the Old Reliable Bound to Please VHS tapes with Scott O’Hara, Rod Garetto, and Bobby Golden.

A lot of David's models had started with the granddaddy of all male porn, the Athletic Model Guild. It was funny to watch them all clean and sober with AMG, but by the time they did scenes for Old Reliable, they were drugged-out whores.

I concur that this guy had a fascinating life.

Would be a good limited TV series.

Here's a sample, I believe.

Very interesting and fascinating story, I like learning new names in gay history and their background. Thank you for your contribution to gay culture, sex and sin, David Hurles, much appreciated buddy. RIP

[quote] I like learning new names in gay history

You need to pick up the Dr Eric Cervini. He's got lots of new fabricated stories.

R21 No, this thread is useless without video links. Why do people insist on starting and commenting on a thread related to gay porn without video links?

r25 Hopefully Ryan Murphy is taking note...

This blog has a lot of his work.

My first porn...

He looks like a serial killer.

I love this style of porn.

Thank you r31

r33 Harsh!!

This top was amazing - passionate and aggressive.

The Old Reliable videos were mostly really bad dudes stripping, , wrestling and jerking off. But there were a set of five rare tapes of David Hurles having sex with his models. I had two of the tapes at one time. I can't find the others despite trying.

How did he live this long?

I agree , this type of porn was always my favorite vs ‘produced’ studio porn. Real guys.

One of the models, Lonewolf Bronson, was the subject of last year’s HBO documentary series “Mind Over Murder”. He was convicted but later acquitted of the rape and murder of an elderly woman in North Dakota. This blog has a couple of pictures of him from his Old Reliable days.

Nebraska, not North Dakota.

Joseph White was his real name. Very sad story.

Wow, I remember the porn tapes he made for Old Reliable well. I had no idea of the drama that came his way. Imagine spending all that time in prison for something you didn't do. The article says he died by blunt force trauma, but gives no details. I wonder what happened.

[Quote] The article says he died by blunt force trauma, but gives no details. I wonder what happened.

Surprise Anal.

I missed this thread last month. Didn’t know the man had died. But what a legacy! A true auteur.

Thank you for posting the fuck video, R36. Springer looks like a stud. Can’t wait to watch.

One of my favorites was a wrestling & (raw) fucking video starring Shawn McWilliams (not sure if he used a different name there), who had been in an AMG wrestling video (where he comes on his wrestling partner) as well as the Tim Kramer/Michael Christopher classic Tony’s Initiation, with McWilliams in the title role.

Crane accident at the factory he was working at, r42.

In regards to Lonewolf Bronson… incarcerated far from home in North Dakota:

“I hope he’s making someone happy in North Dakota right now”

All I could do was chuckle.

I always wondered about the Old Reliable videos. I found the trashy redneck guys and weird offbeat jocks very hot, but could never afford the cost of the videos as a young gayling.

In the early 90s I could maybe just about afford the $7 in the dirty bookstore to get whatever 3 pack of magazines, one of which would inevitably have the Old Reliable ad, along with the ad from some guy in Maryland who sold piss videos and who apparently went to jail for that at some point - weird to think of now as several video lines have water sports in their videos now.

It's pretty sad that a thread on the death of David Hurles has only 47 replies at the Datalounge, of all places. I didn't know he had died and came here right away expecting a long thread.

Anyway, I loved Hurles' videos, sleazy as they were. The men were almost all hot in some way, and a few were absolutely sex on a stick. There was one guy ... I don't remember his name, but he was somewhat more mainstream-looking than most, a blond with '80s fratboy hair, a beard and a beautifully muscled body. He was also very hairy, and I do have a thing for hairy blonds. I wasn't a big fan of the abusive language, but the swaggering virility of these guys was incredibly hot and about 1000% sexier than anything in modern porn.

I had never seen a picture of Hurles before. He was cute! I remember reading somewhere that he was alienated from mainstream gay culture and even somewhat hostile to it. Or was that some other famous early pornographer?

"This thread is useless without pictures" so here's the guy I was talking about in R48.

Oops - forgot to add that his name - or nom de porn, anyway - was Mark Kovarik. I wonder where he is today. He's probably in his mid- to late 60s, if he's not six feet under.

R36 he’s hot. Was he from the 80s, 90s, 00s? Someone at this link said he’s an openly bi married dad.