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Everyone in the connected world knows what porn is and has seen it. Join I. Que Grande, an award-winning producer in the Gay Adult Entertainment Industry as he humanizes porn stars, deconstructs sex work, illicitly recounts stories from on and off the set and explores sexuality. If you watch gay porn and want to hear a different side of your favorite stars, or if you are just a little curious, this podcast is definitely for you.
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Send us a text A pioneering filmmaker and activist, Pat Rocco produced and exhibited the first openly gay erotic films and gay related newsreels in the 1960's that were widely embraced by the gay community and mainstream press. Come of Age was directed by a man named Brad Kingston. It is a side note entry in the history of gay erotic cinema. BUT it…
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Send us a text Perennial guest and porn star Joel Someone is in New York and I took the opportunity to sit down and catch up. From the Gayvn Awards, garbage picking in New York to his father’s passing; we go deep. We then attempt to read mean comments about Joel, but get into a conversation about dealing with online trolling and the importance of a…
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Send us a text Described as gay Louis B. Mayer, the big producer during the golden age of Hollywood, Shan Sayles was a big, boisterous man who owned movie theaters, produced films and cemented his mark on the early days of all erotic film. It was a legendary production at the time of its release. Both for its subject matter and the various rumors a…
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Send us a text I have been talking to the Milking Coach about getting together for some time now. While on location in NYC for work, I took advantage of his open morning and came in for the interview. After a successful career in mainstream entertainment as an event producer, The Milking Coach began his career in erotic videos on Tumblr and Xtube b…
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Send us a text The Park Theater, the Century Theater, Signature Films, Jaguar Productions, these are just a couple of names, I could throw out there to anyone who knew what was "in" back in the day and the man that was responsible for all of them was Monroe Beehler. A pioneering studio that was run out of a basement in the Hollywood Hills, Jaguar w…
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Send us a text Adult content creator, Rob Montana, joins me on DGP to discuss growing up poor, gay and Mormon in rural Montana. Montana recounts stories of visiting the local gay bars, coming out to his family before moving to Washington D.C. for work and graduate studies. There Montana would meet his husband and enroll in medical school. During a …
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Send us a text Arch Brown, an amateur photographer turned incidental filmmaker first came to broad public attention through his films. During gay liberation’s first decade, Brown’s homoerotic films achieved an international following garnering amazing reviews. Fellow filmmaker and producer, Jack Deveau, entrusted Brown with a surreal film which has…
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Send us a text SantanaXXL is an adult contenet creator phenomenon. Since he began making videos for site like Xtube and Xvideos, he has single-handedly represented "the big boys!" I drove down to Philly to meet Santana in his now infamous SUV to talk about his upbringing, his continued growth in the industry, moving into studio porn, and what else …
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Send us a text A listener messaged me and asked if I could score an interview with The Masked Jock. I did not know this beautifully carved, masked man personally, but I watched his following grow with the awesome content he produces. While we were in the same city, I decided to contact him and see if he would be up for an interview. He gladly accep…
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Send us a text Before social media, influencers and selfies, there was Peter Berlin; whose blond hair, fair skin and slim physique made him an international icon. He was “the original influencer. The gay erotic film Nights in Black Leather was a significant release during the 1970’s Golden Era of Gay Porn. It was embraced and celebrated internation…
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Send us a text Apollo Fates is one of gay adult entertainment's stars who in my opinion is still bubbling under; his talents and work are very well received and definitely noticed but I still think it is scratching under the surface. I first saw Apollo perform in a couple of scenes for Vision X Studios and knew the next time I find myself in L.A., …
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Send us a text In his 40-year career, William Higgins, built a catalogue of over 3,000 films and is considered by many of his peers as one of the most influential and beloved gay porn directors of all time. The film, A Married Man, directed by William Higgins and starring Jack Wrangler was the director’s debut into the maddening world of gay erotic…
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Send us a text I met Teddy Forest in 2019. He's a blonde hair, blue-eyed charismatic young man. Then he takes off his clothes and gets in front of the camera; unleashing a totally different beast! Teddy Forest sits down and tells us about growing up Lutheran in Nebraska before making his way to Chicago to major in Urban Development. Now, currently …
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Send us a text The late 1970s were an representational awakening for homosexual men. They began to embrace a new vision of themselves as hyper masculine. The rise of the clone look and of bars that catered to them helped push forward this new gay masculinity, but porn took it to the rest of the country and the man who bridged the old world of the c…
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Send us a text It’s 1971 and you’re at a Groovy Guy Contest. There, you set your eyes on Jimmy Hughes. Hughes would go on to win the contest and become a sought after model during the early part of the 1970’s before being entangled in rape and kidnapping charges that would landed him in jail in 1974. When a feature film becomes a massive box office…
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Send us a text Young model and adult entertainer Benvi was in New York City recently and I have wanted to sit down and talk to him since I met him in Los Angeles a couple years back. Just in his mid-20's, Benvi has already lived many lives and shares a bit about his struggles with addiction and homelessness that led him to sex work. Now sober, Benv…
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Send us a text Sean Duran appeared on DGP last season and it quickly became one of the most loved and disliked interview of the series. Well this season's interview may prove to be no different. A couple of years have gone by since we last met and I sat down to catch up on many of Sean's lofty goals, such as truck driving school, having children an…
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Send us a text Joel Someone and King Dwarf have had an amazing year and I was very happy when they reached out to let me know about it. Joel is a DGP perennial guest whose career in the industry I’ve had the privilege to watch explode from coast to cast and studio to studio. Since last we spoke King Dwarf has gone from social media sensation to rea…
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Send us a text Adult Babies and Diaper Lovers are growing communities that enjoy role-playing as infants and/or wearing diapers. Both AB and DL are often grouped into a single community as they share similar traits within their members. ABDL can be either sexual or nonsexual depending on the person and how they derive their positive needs of safety…
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Send us a text How did an expatriate eccentric Englishman armed with a video camera become the Grandfather of Gay Porn? Peter De Rome, whose erotic films were made at a time when doing so was incredibly dangerous and would later gain recognition in the 70’s by Jack Deveau and then again some 40 years later with a new generation. The story behind Pe…
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Send us a text Jordan Jameson is an adult content creator and model who marches to the beat of his own drum. Every shoot I've worked on that he is a part of, he walks into the room and it is his. In this episode we get underneath the surface and find out what it took to make Jordan Jameson his own unique brand in adult entertainment, modeling for p…
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Send us a text Jack Deveau has been called the master of narrative gay porn. During the 1970’s he molded moody stories that were filled with hot sex and sociopolitical messages and heavily plotted films that still resonate today. Deveau, along with his lover and business partner Robert Alvarez presided over one of the most well-regraded studios of …
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Send us a text Roger Earl was a documentarian who managed to capture intense BDSM and kink sessions in some of the truest forms of erotic cinema verité, often polarizing and definitely shocking viewers. Earl’s Born to Raise Hell was made at the same time as the other gay landmark films. However, this film’s focus is primarily on gay male sadomasoch…
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Send us a text On this episode of DGP: Open Lines we start to explore "Furries." In i's most basic definition, A Furry is a fan of anthropomorphic animals, i.e. a Disney character suit, a mascot , etc... and it doesn't stop there. Furries are part of a growing furry fandom. My good friend Spike (from the pup play episode) just happened to know a co…
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Send us a text Jerry Douglas wore many hats, as a novelist playwright and theater director, but here we will celebrate him as the gay porn director, film historian, storyteller and a mentor to many figures in the gay porn industry today. Douglas is justly celebrated at the director of The Back Row one of the first hardcore films made after Stonewal…
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Send us a text Content Creator Alex Kof is a Ukranian-born porn model who lives in New York City, by way of Russia. He began his porn career in Moscow when he met producer Michael Lucas in 2013 and took a break until recent years. Kof decided to leave Russia and he moved to the big apple where he began shooting his own adult content. In our intervi…
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Send us a text During the beginning of the gay erotica film explosion, J. Brian was already near legendary as a well known photographer of naked young men. Once he picked up a film camera, he made a handful of significant films that are classics today. Brian’s Seven in a Barn satisfies an an authentic artifact of early gay cinema made especially in…
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Send us a text Porn stars embody the sexual ideals of gay men. It is the porn star’s sexual performance that is the portal through which viewers engage with a pornographic movie. Director Fred Halsted considered hardcore porn a performer’s medium—as well as the cameraman’s. Halsted was in all senses a pornographer, but more an experimentalist who w…
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Send us a text On this Open Lines episode of DGP, we are discussing puppy play, puppy hoods, wagging tails, barking and obedience. I am joined by two personal friends who sit down to tell me what attracted them to the culture of puppy play and why it is so damn popular. Puppy (or pup) play is a type of role-play behavior, in the outskirts of the BD…
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Send us a text Steven Toushin helped redefine and shape modern perceptions of what is and what isn’t obscene but faced an uphill battle with the moral right and the government, which was practically synonymous in the early days of pornography. The Bijou Theatre opened its doors in 1970 during the height of the sexual revolution and at a time when a…
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Send us a text Gay porn personality Benny Blazin is a smart, charming performer and college student I met in 2019. Every time I book a round of shoots, I make sure to cast him in one position or another. Benny sits down with me and discusses how he was introduced to the east coast porn industry. From there we talk about his growing up in the Bronx,…
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Send us a text This episode celebrates Tom DeSimone, a gay porn director turned Hollywood filmmaker who helped develop and contributed to the early years of gay porn. I also examine DeSimone’s film The Idol, a coming-of-age film that involves real dialogue and genuine acting as the lead character comes to terms with his sexuality. And finally Jack …
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Send us a text A listener messaged me on Instagram telling me he gets turned on men by with small dicks. After speaking to him briefly, I was fascinated. I'm in an industry that absolutely idolizes men with huge dicks and sells them to their audience. There are sites that exist dedicated to men with small dicks, micro penis, etc... They exist howev…
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Send us a text Pioneering adult filmmaker Wakefield Poole revolutionized gay porn in the early 1970's. Boys in the Sand was the seminal gay porn film that ushered in the era of gay porn chic before Deep Throat. Casey Donovan was the "All-American Boy Next Door," who helped create a genre and was one of the most marketable adult and mainstream model…
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Send us a text Gay adult performer Jonah Wheeler began his career during the pandemic and has quickly become a sought after entertainer by collaborators and studios alike. His charming, genuine demeanor and "big brother next door" attitude are on full display as we discuss growing up in the Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C and studying m…
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Send us a text It has been a long time, but Demystifying Gay Porn is almost here! Season 4 premieres next week but I felt as if devoted listeners, watchers and newcomers may want a taste of some of the changes this season will bring. There will still be plenty of model interviews. But I wanted to start putting together a detailed history of gay por…
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Send us a text Jim French was a classically trained illustrator who began his career in fashion and later formed small companies selling nude male illustrations during the late 1960's. French would go on to form Colt Studio; America's first gay porn studio. Dakota a.k.a. Ken Sprague was a popular Colt Man who used his earnings and notoriety to buy …
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Send us a text It was my pleasure to meet and interview King Dwarf, whose personality, along with, ahem, other appendages made him a star amongst content creators, fan sites and the twitter-sphere. We met at a dusty motel room in central New Jersey and shot the shit for about an hour about the growing pains early on in life. It wasn't until high sc…
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Send us a text Champ Robinson has been in the middle of a relaunch and promoting his new website Vision X. On top of that he has been more open about collaborating and also sharing scenes with models that originally belonged solely to him. It was during one of these content sharing scenes that Champ was confronted by an queer Asian sex worker who w…
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Send us a text Ripper, my guest this week, is a size difference enthusiast who’s into macro fantasy. Unlike my other guests on the subject though, Ripper is also a content creator and owner of the website Giants and Tiny Feet. Like many other size enthusiasts, Ripper was fascinated watching movies like "Honey I Shrunk The Kid, and also remembers sh…
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Send us a text In the late 2010's I began seeing a phrase or new sexual orientation rather, called "the Pornosexual." A pornosexual, more recently also referred to as a solosexual as well, describes a person whose sexual orientation is linked solely to porn. It's become so easy to get your hands on porn today that some people just don't feel the ne…
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Send us a text I had a couple of interesting conversations that just couldn't wait for Season 4, so here's episode 1 of 5 in a "Summer Series." It's safe to say everyone who listens to this podcast knows what a top is and what a bottom is. But, have you heard of a side? If you haven't, make way because here they come. Well they've always been here.…
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Send us a text What can I say about Youtube Star Davey Wavey that he hasn’t already said or that you might not be aware of? I got an email from Davey Wavey in March about connecting and was blown away; how on earth did he find my dog and pony show? Lol! Of course I know who Davey is but it wasn’t until a listener of the podcast asked me about a stu…
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Send us a text If you haven’t already listened to the two macrophilia podcasts on the previous seasons Demystifying Gay Porn, JoeVoter is here to share his experiences with this fascinating fetish more popularly known as "Size Kink." Size kink goes by many different names. Macrophilia, macro for short, being the most basic definition you will find …
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Send us a text A couple of weeks ago during a monthly sweep for new models in the NYC area, I noticed a cute Only Fans model who appeared on my Twitter feed. When I clicked on his page I noticed he was following me! I was like, "How did I miss this kid?" I reached out to Miguel, better known in the sex Twitter-sphere as "Migs," and wanted to see if…
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Send us a text It's been a while since Betsy, the female gay porn fan helped us get a woman's perspective of gay porn on season one of the podcast. I recently received an email from Christina, a fellow enthusiast in which she proclaimed her love for gay porn. So naturally, I wanted to hear all about it. Oh, but that's not all! Christina is an extre…
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Send us a text Jake is an avid listener of the DGP podcast. When he reached out to me through Instagram we spoke briefly about his appreciation of men's underwear. After a couple of conversations, I asked him to come on the show and share his story. Jake has a collection of underwear that is close to four hundred pair deep. It’s what he likes and i…
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Send us a text As you probably already know, Champ Robinson and I have known each other so such a long time. On one of his recent trips to L.A. I crashed at his place and grabbed this interview with him. Champ recently relaunched his website as Vision X, where he offers various different series thanks to the different themes he has played with in h…
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Send us a text This week, I speak to Brian Bonds, who I have trying to set up an interview with for almost 4 years now. Brian came by and we spoke about living in sin city, Las Vegas, growing up in Arkansas closeted in a baptist family and coming out to his parents as first gay but then a porn star. Brian also does a lot for HIV advocacy and we tal…
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Send us a text For the second season of the podcast, Dillon Diaz and I had a great conversation via zoom but I knew the minute I could be in the same town with him, I would want to have a face to face meeting and sit down. On this episode, Dillon and I discuss how the porn world has been for him since full-on production has resumed, the various dif…
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