Demystifying Gay Porn
Society & Culture
About
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 adult entertainment 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 for you.
Episodes
- S5E2: The David SF Interview
Send us Fan Mail David SF, also known as David Wichman is an award-winning author whose work is shaped by nearly two decades as a sex worker—bringing a rare, unfiltered perspective to conversations around desire, intimacy, and shame. His w…
- S5E1: Matt Sterling / Powertool / Jeff Stryker
Send us Fan Mail Matt Sterling was one of the key figures behind the evolution of gay adult cinema in the 1970s and 1980s — even if his name isn’t widely known today. In 1986, director John Travis released a gay adult film starring Jeff St…
- S5E0: From Underground to Iconic | The 1980s Gay Porn Revolution Explained
Send us Fan Mail Before the OnlyFans, streaming and internet — the gay adult entertainment industry of the 1980's became a cultural force that changed gay history forever. In this Season 5 prologue of DGP, we explore how VHS technology, th…
- S4E40: Season Epilogue / How Gay Erotica Changed the World
Send us Fan Mail In the 1970s, gay erotica was just coming in to its own and it was revolutionary. Bold, new ideas from filmmakers and underground studios transformed the landscape of sexuality, freedom, and representation. From the rise o…
- S4E39: Toby Ross | Do Me Evil | Bill Eld
Send us Fan Mail The early days of making porn films were a grey zone which was very vast and unexplored. You could tell a story while making a hardcore film. In 1974 legendary filmmaker Toby Ross made his first film. Chances are… you’ve n…
- S4E38: Arthur J. Bressan Jr. | Passing Strangers | Johnny Dawes
Send us Fan Mail Arthur J Bressan Jr. was of the few iconic filmmakers in the history of gay erotic cinema that saw the importance of weaving and capturing our history while at the same time making it okay to watch educational stuff with y…
- S4E37: Chuck Holmes/The Other Side of Aspen/Al Parker
Send us Fan Mail Chuck Holmes was a gay adult film pioneer and gay rights activist who founded Falcon Studios in the early 1970s and reshaped the golden age of gay porn into the industry it is today. Widely acknowledged as the best erotica…
- S4E36: Pat Rocco / Come of Age / Rick Cassidy
Send us Fan Mail 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 A…
- S4E35: The 4th Joel Someone Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E34: Shan Sayles / Song of the Loon / Roger
Send us Fan Mail 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 fil…
- S4E33: The Milking Coach Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 mainstr…
- S4E32: Monroe Beehler / Jaguar Productions / The Rivermen
Send us Fan Mail 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 al…
- S4E31: The Rob Montana Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E30: Arch Brown/The Night Before/Dick Fisk
Send us Fan Mail 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 gar…
- S4E29: The SantanaXXL Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 infamou…
- S4E28: The Masked Jock Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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. Whi…
- S3E27: Peter Berlin / Nights in Black Leather
Send us Fan Mail 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 Leath…
- S4E26: The Apollo Fates Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 f…
- S4E25: William Higgins / A Married Man / Kip Noll
Send us Fan Mail 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, direc…
- S4E24: The Teddy Forest Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 abou…
- S4E23: Joe Gage / Kansas City Trucking Co. / Richard Locke
Send us Fan Mail 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 thi…
- S4E22: Scott Masters / Greek Lightning / Jimmy Hughes
Send us Fan Mail 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 ra…
- S4E21: The Benvi Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 liv…
- S4E20: The 2nd Sean Duran Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 la…
- S4E19: The Joel Someone and King Dwarf Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 fr…
- S4E18: Open Lines: Adult Baby Diaper Lovers
Send us Fan Mail 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.…
- S4E17: Peter De Rome / The Destroying Angel / Will Seagers
Send us Fan Mail 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 rec…
- S4E16: The Jordan Jameson Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 sur…
- S4E15: Jack Deveau/Left-Handed/Wade Nichols
Send us Fan Mail 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,…
- S4E14: Roger Earl / Born To Raise Hell / Val Martin
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E13: Open Lines - Furries
Send us Fan Mail 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. Furrie…
- S4E12: Jerry Douglas/The Back Row/George Payne
Send us Fan Mail 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.…
- S4E11: The Alex Kof Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 de…
- S4E10: J. Brian/Seven in a Barn/Dean Chasson
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E9: Fred Halsted/L.A. Plays Itself/Joey Yale
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E8: Open Lines - The Puppy Play Episode
Send us Fan Mail 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 pl…
- S4E7: Steven Toushin/Bijou Video/Centurians of Rome
Send us Fan Mail 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 pornog…
- S4E6: The Benny Blazin Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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 discu…
- S4E5: Tom DeSimone /The Idol /Jack Wrangler
Send us Fan Mail 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 inv…
- S4E4: Open Lines - Small Dick Fetish
Send us Fan Mail 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 t…
- S4E3: Wakefield Poole / Boys in the Sand / Casey Donovan
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- S4E2: The Jonah Wheeler Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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" attitu…
- S4E0: Season Prologue / The Surprise of a Knight
Send us Fan Mail 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. The…
- S4E1: Jim French / Colt Studio / Dakota
Send us Fan Mail 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 fi…
- Summer Sessions Ep. 5 - The Larger Than Life King Dwarf!
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Summer Sessions Ep. 4 - Champ Addresses the C*m Dumplings Incident
Send us Fan Mail 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 hi…
- Summer Sessions Ep. 3 - The Creator of Giants and Tiny Feet Productions
Send us Fan Mail 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…
- Summer Sessions Ep. 2 - Interview with a Pornosexual
Send us Fan Mail 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 l…
- Summer Sessions Ep. 1 - The Side Position
Send us Fan Mail 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 i…
- S3E30 - The Davey Wavey Interview
Send us Fan Mail 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…