Was/is Joey Stefano the most famous actually gay in real life gay porn star ever?

He was SO sexy.

OUT OF ORDER!

I've never understood the pron world's fascination with this guy.

Very queeny acting, lots of gayvoice, very ordinary body, and generally a lethargic, disinterested performer

He'd be in his mid-fifties now if he had lived, probably working a low wage job with periodic trips to rehab.

Just another gay porn star who died young.

At least he knew when to quit. I bet he had a better list than Epstein.

I would say Jeff Stryker was more famous in his day than either Joey Stefano or Mike Branson.

So was Ryan Idol.

Agree with you, Op, never understood the hype,

The concept of.famous gay porn star is complicated,mbut yes, probably Stryker. Unfortunately as he was not even gay.

He was sexy, that was his appeal.

Beautiful face, great hair, excellently proportioned body, narrow waste, big ass, and a demeanor that just screamed 'I want you to cum in me.'

erm, narrow WAIST

R2, I don't know what you mean

“Wonder Bread, ecstasy” should be the new “Caftans, earrings.”

Does anyone have the full black and white interview he did?

Interview from 1990

👎 no

In so many of the porn scenes he did, he was obviously as high as the International Space Station.

Part of a rare interview.

Has anyone ever seen the full interview?

I was more of a Tony Davis fan.

Dick Fisk was a real-life gay porn star. He was solid as a rock when we were together.

He was gay and apparently blew through many relationships.

[quote] He was gay and apparently blew through many relationships.

That's what she said!

Video era he was, DVD era Brent Corrigan and Erik Rhodes. Rhodes got an obit in the New York Times when he died written by Jacob Bernstein, I don’t think any porn star had one in the paper before.

R21, I thought Erik Rhodes was g4p

Great compilation

Such a pretty bottom whore.

R24, indeed

Joey was probably the only famous BOTTOM at the time when all the others were trying to out top each other. The reason it was notable is that for the most part, even today, bottoms are a dime a dozen and no one really cares about them like guys with huge cocks and top energy.

Was Joey top or bottom in real life?

Al Parker was just as famous. And Jack Wrangler (although his gay credentials are possibly a bit less certain.)

Did Madonna make him more famous?

Shared a memorable back seat of a limo with Nicky & his Uggs 10,000 midnights ago. He was a doomed hot mess.

Did Madonna make him more famous?

Maybe to the straight world.

Possibly one of the most lackluster sex performers in the business. Rarely looked like he was enjoying it.

In spite of his looks, he was a very dull performer.

Did he ever get hard? Probably not because of all the drugs.

A second vote for Al Parker, The first openly, unashamed gay porn superstar. Up until the mid 70s, majority of guys in gay porn were skeevy, drugged out, rough trade and only in it for the $. The Joe Gage franchise changed that. For the first time, our gay porn models were rugged, masculine and handsome ...and gay.

[quote] “Wonder Bread, ecstasy”

That was actually a really good book. I recommend it.

It’s a great book. I met Joey in the early 90’s waiting to check my coat at Limelight. He was amazing in person. For me, his visage was the epitome of all those high school jocks you fantasized about in high school.

He could’ve just as easily been a Ralph Lauren model.

[quote]his visage

LOL

and his countenance?

I always get Joey Stefano confused with Joey Tribbiani

R39, why?

I 💗💗💗💗💗 Kevin Williams

Kevin is a MAGAt.

What about Jack Wrangler? I assume he was genuinely gay and Mrs. Margaret Whiting for pay (and maybe companionship).

I have a friend who was an undergraduate with him at Northwestern. I doubt he studied with Alvina Krause.

Very good with his ass

An Alvina Krause mention in a Joey Stefano thread!

First laff I've had since Trump was elected....

thanks R43

R38, I know, I know., LOL

I grew up in a seaside suburb of Boston, and in my high school there were a LOT of sulky, doe-eyed Italian guys with great hair and curvy asses just like Joey…

I definitely have a type!

Jeff Stryker was much more famous OP.

What a load of horseshit R42.

Wonder what he looks like now

After 30 years in his grave I would imagine skeletal.

r48 is in denial.

Stryker also definitely studied with Herbert Berghof...

Studied what? Pickleball?

[quote]Studied what? Pickleball?

the alphabet?

Was Joey Stefano in Madonna's Deeper And Deeper music video?

Nothing beats my boo Jack Wrangler

My vote is for Al Parker.

R55, I don’t think he was in the video, but he was featured in Madonna’s Sex book.

[quote]Kevin is a MAGAt.

That's interesting, he always came across as that kind of selfish entitle priss even back then. His personality was such a turn off even at a young age.

It was a Mafia hit. No mystery to his demise.

No.

Today is the 30th Anniversary of his death.

[quote]R26 for the most part, even today, bottoms are a dime a dozen and no one really cares about them

Sad but true.

Joey S. was one of the most talented bottoms ever. She also had a lot of pain and struggle throughout her life. Despite that, she had a good heart, which is hard to encounter in a drug addict porn whore. At a time when gay people were oppressed beyond belief, they identified with her struggles and she theirs.

She?

Joey Stefano and Al Parker were bisexual, not gay.

R65, what makes you think Joey Stefano was bisexual?

His bisexual scenes. Also, the interview where he said he came twice in a scene with a girl which he never did in any of his gay scenes. He was also briefly engaged to marry one of his female porn co-stars but then reverted to "gay."

[quote]Today is the 30th Anniversary of his death.

I prelubed in his honor.

R67, proof?

He was the ultimate very cute boy next door type of that era. Not a Dude, Bro, Gym Bunny or roided out queen which were more ubiquitous back in the day.

and the was thicc in the right places

He was everyman. His story is the story of all of us.

I remember him seeming high as a kite on the cable access Robin Byrd Show and blurted out that David Geffen was his boyfriend. I’m pretty sure Geffen dumped him very soon after that.

Geffen reportedly tried to get him off the drugs, that speaks well of him.

Internationally Jeff Stryker is probably still the most famous gay porn star. The Netherlands never produced a postage stamp with Joey Stefano's face on it, like they did for Stryker.

^^^^

LOL

What queen was running the post office?

So you could lick Jeff Stryker for the price of a stamp?

As with almost all porn actors, the videos from his first two years were the best. People still circle the drain in the life, although there are a lot better or easier outcomes for more people now.

I didn't know Stefano. Knew a few other big names and a lot with smaller or no names. Just like in the 70s-90s, everyone sells it and parties, and the porn, sex work, playing, substances, chaotic personal lives and risk-taking have individual and combined downward trajectories.

[quote]Internationally Jeff Stryker is probably still the most famous gay porn star.

Yes, we know. No one is calming Joey was more famous. Joey was the boy next door. Unlike Stryker, he was not an fugly plastic love doll who's only asset was a huge dick. Stryker was such a weirdo even back then, looks like a freak now.

Stryker used to sell it and also just give it away when he was on the circuit. Knew a guy who fluffed for him in videos, and Charles (Jeff's real name) would show up for blow jobs. He was like a cross between Bubba on Mama's Family and Elvis' bad acting in a gay porn, but resolutely lizard cool.

I have one of his dildos, autographed with xxx's.

Have you seen Striker's home he tried to sell a few years ago? It's as tacky as he is.

I used my Stryker dildo religiously.

"He was the ultimate very cute boy next door type of that era"... or of any era... totally agree r70

Does anyone think Joey was fem?

I picked Joey up in front of The Rage in West Hollywood way back in the 90s, (soon after I had moved here). It was 1:45a, during the days when bars would close by 2am and throw everybody onto the streets. It was a very quick pick-up. We saw each other in the street lights, I smiled, he asked if I wanted to go back to his place with him. Just like that. (I didn't know who he was at the time). He told me his name was Nick.

He lived in a 3-bedroom house. Told me we had to be quiet so as not to awaken his two roommates. We walked into his room, he had a big sign on the door "I'm a Porn Star". That could be the reason I never forgot the experience, as otherwise it was unmemorable.

The next day, I was in Circus of Books. I saw him on the cover of some porn magazine, "Oh shit", (like that scene in My Own Private Idaho). He was identified as Joey Stefano. Because I had so recently moved here, I was still very excited about living here, my first brush with "celebrity", and it felt like a baptism of sorts.

Baptized? Did you drink his bath water?

Like in OP’s pic, Stefano is often photographed squeezing his cock. It’s as if he couldn’t get a real erection

What does everyone think of his voice?

[quote]Baptized? Did you drink his bath water?

No--he was baptized by his load.

Joey Stefano had “it.” Beautiful blue eyes, pretty face but not at all effeminate. And if you ever watched him dance, he knew how to swing that ass and get that hole to wink at you. He was a great bottom who really seemed to enjoy being fucked.

Stefani was the first famous bottom in porn. He fucked anything that moved if they wanted sex but reportedly preferred men. He famously went looking for sex behind Circus of Books almost every day.

Casey Donvan and Jack Wrangler were much bigger in their day.

R91, where did you hear he fucked women aside from Sharon Kane in 1 movie?

Was Joey Stefano really in Madonna's Deeper And Deeper music video?

Jesus, spare me the Bisexual stans. Fucking a woman for money or for shits and giggles or to keep up "appearances" doesn't make you bi.

Al Parker was a gay man. Casey Donovan was a gay man. Joey Stefano was a gay man. And, despite the weird marriage, Wrangler was as gay as a box of sparkle dildos.

Jack Wrangler was gay and haaad his own personal diva too

R94, I don’t remember if he appeared in the Deeper and Deeper video (he probably did), but I know he was included in Madonna’s book Sex.

Brent Corrigan, for being underage and the murder-adjacent thing.

grrr

R98 fantasizes nightly abou Harlow Cuadra

R100 Pipe down, Harlow.

Great ass

Love his voice

So hot

It depends on how you define "fame." Joey Stefano really became more famous in death than when he was alive.

But if you're defining "fame" as success, then probably the most famous actually gay in real life gay porn star ever is Wade Nichols. He was a straight-for-pay gay porn star, but he also did gay porn movies and loops in his early days in the 70s.

Then he managed to reinvent himself as Dennis Parker, cross over into the mainstream, record a disco album, and get a recurring role on The Edge of Night soap opera.

He died of AIDS in the 80s.

R105, I forgot about him

I guess that we will never know whether he was gay or bisexual...

I saw Joey Stefano cruising in one of the peep show video booths on 8th Avenue. He was performing at the Show Palace that week and was probably looking to earn more cash for drugs. He was just as lovely in person as on video.

I much prefer this video of Dennis Parker/Wade Nichol's "Like an eagle"...the song is TERRIBLE but I get a kick out of seeing a grungy, dingy late 1970's Times Square in broad daylight, and the very amusing reactions of the people to him

They did a whole Weekend Update skit about Jeff Stryker, so I think that he is the most famous gay porn star ever (even if he was not actually gay).

A skit? .. There was a whole film about Brent Corrigan (King Cobra, 2016).

Joey could take a D.

Did he ever take Stryker?

Who was the American 🇺🇸 blonde gay porn star from the 1990s that unexpectedly became a mainstream icon in Japan,🇯🇵 of all places? He was one of the very few gay porn stars to have an action figure manufactured in their likeness.

[quote] Did he ever take Stryker?

Take him where, Dorothy?

R114 Are you thinking of Billy Herrington? That was in the 00s. (I think he was G4P.)

The Billy Herrinton action figure can be found on eBay. .. The Japanese character "Aniki" is mentioned in this article reporting his death.

He was sexually compulsive. But, in a porn star, that's a GOOD thing.

Joey was so charismatic

To me he was kind of like Lucas Ridgeston of Bel Ami. Both were beautiful in photographs but not the most exciting performers. So good-looking they could have had mainstream careers of some kind but I'm grateful they chose the adult route.

R119, both straight too

Wasn’t Francois Sagat absolutely massive in the 2000’s? And 100% gay.

R121 I could never get past Sagat's tattooed head.

R118 There are many words you could use to describe Joey Stefano - handsome, angelic, god-like, beautiful, enigmatic, etc.

But charismatic? No.

Nick was a hawt mess. Total hustler. That's why you anicent pornies still worship him. Pathetic

Lukas Ridgeston, now there was a beauty!