2025-05-20
2025-04-01
Reports of the death of Damien Stone
Damien Stone was born in the East European country of Moldova and raised in Pennsylvania. A prolific and versatile performer, after leaving studio work and starting an OnlyFans channel, he won multiple bodybuilding competitions. He succumbed to problems with an enlarged heart in the early months of 2025.
2025-03-23
2025-03-01
Passing of Tim Kruger
Grobes Geraet announced the passing of his long time partner
Tim Kruger in an accident at home. Grobes was the energy behind their website and videoed Tim's plus sized dick drilling almost 400 men.
2024-10-02
Reactionary Corey DeAngelis outed as GayHoopla's Seth Rose
Corey DeAngelis, a conservative activist, was involved in the extremist Project 2025 and also was a member of the American Federation for Children. The latter advocates for 'school choice' which tries to undermine public schools in favor of private schools. He testified in the Texas House on this topic. It seems his work at GayHoopla as
Seth Rose bit him in the ass and he was fired from that organization. The odd thing is that it was another right wing group, that thinks even school choice vouchers are too much government, who called DeAngelis on the carpet after which he was fired. You have to wonder which hypocrite in that organization would be the one who knows about GayHoopla. There is no word on whether DeAngelis even has children of his own or what his sex preference is.
2024-07-22
Passing of Grant Michaels
The fitness world is reporting the death of body builder and model
Grant Michaels (Grant Henderson) from unspecified causes. He appears in this index for straight-for-gay and solo performances and graced the cover and pages of many magazines. His first claim to fame was as 1993 Mr. Zimbabwe, where he was born.
2024-02-10
Departure of Bo Dixon
Built-like-a-tank performer
Bo Dixon has apparently died of cardiac arrest during his sleep.
2023-11-26
Loss of Eric Manchester
From what we assume is a reliable source, we have been informed of the loss of
Eric Manchester in March 2023.
2023-11-10
Passing of veteran Jason Nikas
Jason Nikas has been reported as having passed on on September 18th after a long battle with cancer.
2023-11-01
Hank Hightower Has Passed
2023-09-05
Death of Bryan Knight
GayVN has news of the death of
Bryan Knight who passed away in his sleep. Knight was a comic book artist and wrote The Velvet Collar, which included his real-lief experiences and the raid on Rent Boy headquarters.
2023-05-17
Ludvig Arrested for Murder
Performer
Ludvig was arrested for the murder of the owner of
The Guy Site.
2023-05-03
Helix Studios Announced the Death of Kyle Ross
Kyle Ross was killed in a solo car accident. Ross was a long time performer at Helix Studios and also worked on the business side of Helix. He had been suffering from MS when he and his dog died while driving his vacation rental Corvette.
2023-04-25
Director Scott Morris Succumbs to Cancer
Husband to
Gord Reece.
Scott Morris was an advocacy force in the gay community from the Stonewall uprising to, activist in Fort Lauderdale, to Factory Video, to the Monkeypox Task Force
2023-04-15
Casey Tanner from Helix Passes
Friends of
Casey Tanner report his death.
2023-04-12
Passing of David Hurles
Jack Fritscher and others are
posting the death of Fritscher's good friend and street tough chronicler
David Hurles. Although Hurles worked with some noteworthy creators, he himself never seemingly tried to reach that level. Instead he enjoyed the dangerous thrill of capturing raw unsculptured masculinity off the streets to the point of being assaulted himself. His
Old Reliable videos spared many a horny man from the danger of attack by letting his subscribers view the trade from the safety of their own home.
2023-03-12
Demystifying Gay Porn
If you are interested in seeing inside current gay porn production and learning about its history take a look at
I. Que Grande's YouTube channel
Demystifying Gay Porn. A great source for current interviews and perspectives on the history.
2023-03-08
Carlos Masi Wins Suit Against University in Rome
After
Carlo Masi retired from Colt Studios he moved back to Italy and earned a doctorate at Sapienza University in Rome and started working there. When it became known that he had used his big muscled good looks to make money, things turned hostile. After being fired and not paid for work he had done, he sued. He has won that suit, receiving back pay and modest compensation.
2023-02-20
Blue Bailey Becomes Author and Attorney
Performer
Blue Baily has written a book about his day as a gay porn star and his struggles with addition. He has become a lawyer and specializes in representing those in the adult industry.
2023-02-07
Private Citizen Solves 1990 Murder of Porn Actor Billy London
In 1990 some poor soul found the head and feet of porn actor
Billy London in a dumpster in West Hollywood. For 30 years that murder was unsolved until Clark Williams took up the cause and got another former porn actor
Billy Houston to confess to the murder.
The
LA Times has the in depth story but it is behind a paywall. Instead the title here links to a Weho Times article.
2023-01-03
Shawn Wolfe dies aged 35
A number of news outlets are posting (with almost identical wording) the sad passing of
Shawn Wolfe in Seattle.
2022-12-03
Tyler Roberts Passes Away
The boyfriend of Tyler Roberts
announced that
Tyler died of heart failure at the ICU in Palm Springs. There was a
fundraiser to help cover Tyler's and his family's expenses.
2022-09-28
Eric York / Pete Finland Fighting Colon Cancer
Eric York, who started performing in the 1990s, has been diagnosed with colorectal cancer. He is undergoing chemotherapy which has left him vulnerable to other complications. A Go Fund Me account has been set up to help with his bills.
2022-09-17
Creeping Censorship
A few years ago the U.K. launched laws that required 'adult' web sites to verify the age of their users. It was not very successful but it has inspired copy cats. The U.S. state of Louisiana now has passed a similar law, California is considering it along with France and Germany.
One could sympathize with the concerns of this movement's efforts but the reliability of screening the users of the internet has proven to be less then dependable on many giant web sites, much less on small sites. This web site may be forced to remove images and, who knows, maybe even text to comply if the costs of complying are too high.
Considering the self righteous bigots that currently control the U.S. Supreme court, there is not much hope of relief from them. Imprecise, unenforceable laws are not a concern for them unless it affects their sectarian friends.
The 'adult industry' has a trade group called the
Free Speech Coalition that helps defend the targets of anti-porn hysteria. They used to allow contributions but may be only subscription now although they now have an OnlyFans channel.
Make your voice heard!
2022-07-10
Death of Randy from Sean Cody
Str8UpGayPorn has extensive reporting on the passing of
Randy. The most prolific performer at Sean Cody he was much loved by his co-workers and his audience. Like too many, he had struggled with addiction.
2022-06-13
Passing of M.J. Taylor
Howard Andrew @FabScoutHoward on Twitter reports (via
MenOfPorn.blog) the death of
M.J. Taylor from cancer. No date given and no other details. Taylor's twitter account said that he was working behind the scenes after last appearing in front of a porn camera.
2022-05-26
Disconnecting Higgins
WilliamHiggins.com is not paying their bills and not answering emails. Not sure what their financial status is but because of this situation we will cease linking to their website.
Sorry about the inconvenience.
2022-04-20
Passing of Steve 'Titpig' Hurley
XBIZ has an
article reporting the death of
Steve Hurley, aka Titpig. He was respected and loved by many in the business and helped set the standard for bear sex themed videos.
2022-03-28
Passing of Robert Prion
Robert Prion, primarily from
Galaxy Pictures, died March 28th this year at the age of 69. His first production came out in the early 80s and his last one was only 8 years ago 2014.
His partner
Jay Richards appeared in a number of his movies and is one of the longest running performers in the business.
2022-02-24
Brodie Sinclair Arrested for Rape of 16 Year Old Girl
The Frederick New Post in Frederick Maryland has (via
MenOfPorn.blog) an article about
Brodie Sinclair being arrested for rape of a female minor. Apparently he had bragged about dating minors in the past and has talked up right wing conspiracy theories.
2022-02-22
Anti Porn Legislation Moves Thru U.S. Legislature
In a hysteric politicized move to allegedly prevent "child sexual abuse material" (CSAM), the federal legislature is in the process of passing the absurdly named EARN IT Act which will potentially ban all porn. Any company that hosts CSAM on the internet, however briefly, publicly or privately, would be liable for lawsuits from states and individuals. This covers services from Facebook to Google Search to iMessage. Encrypted messaging services would have to provide backdoors to permit surveillance. Even if a company genuinely were led to believe that individuals portrayed were of age but then discovered they were not, they would be liable for lawsuits.
2022-02-01
2021-12-12
Simon Rex as Movie Awards Nominee
Str8UpGayPorn points us to an article about
Sebastian AKA Simon Rex who showed us his stuff at
Club 1821 in the 90s. He has been nominated for awards for his leading role as ex (str8) porn star Mikey Saber in the indie movie
Red Rocket where it seems you can see him naked again.
2021-10-28
Celebrated Director Wakefield Poole Has Left the Set
After having worked in theater,
Wakefield Poole saw some adult films and decided he could do better and from that thought arose
Boys in the Sand. After watching it, many a stunned gay man walked out of the theater, tongue dragging on the ground.
A lot of people wished he could have topped that but it never quite happened. The most recent documentary of Poole's story is
I Always Said Yes.
2021-08-27
New Book from Shawn Mayotte
Doug Probst who appeared in YMAC videos as
Dirk and in print as Shawn Mayotte has released a biography. XBIZ has an
interview that summarizes his story from difficult childhood thru sex worker to entrepreneur.
2021-07-16
Flava Works Assets Seized
Xbiz has an article about
Flava Works loosing a suit they had against Adam 4 Adam and being forced to forfeit their assets after not paying the judgment against them.
2021-06-30
2021-06-29
Al Parker Makes an Appearance at GQ
GQ magazine has written an interesting article on the legacy of the mustached rugged clone look from the dawn of the newly above ground gay culture. That look was epitomized and cultivated by
Al Parker and others as can be seen in gay porn about the time it began to appear on film and the new VHS video format of the 1970s.
2021-06-09
ChaosMen Sold to Gamma Entertainment
Today's buzz is that it appears that Gamma Entertainment is listed on the
ChaosMen website as the owner. There had been some subtle changes on ChaosMen with use of full names more frequently and now a Czech performer giving a solo.
2021-05-20
Passing of Frank Ross
Toby Ross passed on news that director/producer
Frank Ross (no relation) died on May 20th, 2021. Frank had previously fought off cancer a number of times but this time succumbed. Toby and Frank worked together on some of Toby's films and Toby counted him as one of the best people he ever worked with. Frank was lured to
Satellite Video where Toby would help him occasionally because of their bond.
2021-05-16
Four More Performers Lost
Over the last week we've gotten notified of 4 more deaths over the last months. It's hard to get the energy to enter these, hence the delay.
Friends of
Alex James posted to his social media about his passing in February.
A friend of
Ty Thomas tells of his death.
Helix Studios announced the departure of
Alex Riley on their Twitter account.
Now
MenOfPorn reports the death of Jayden from Corbin Fisher last year.
Causes are not publicly known in any of these cases.
2021-04-03
Bo Dean Passes Away
QueerMeNow.net has a posting that
Bo Dean has died. He had been paralyzed from the waist down in 2015 in a shooting incident.
2021-01-29
Passing of Scott Masters
One of the earliest and biggest names in gay porn,
Scott Masters aka Robert Walters and Warren Stephens/Stevens died in 2020. Most famous of his productions were under the
Nova Films productions. Starting in film, before the advent of video, a number of uncredited film shorts have recently been discovered as his productions.
2021-01-14
Recent Changes Causing Problems?
We recently put in a few changes that should have been minor but are causing problems. The DVD covers were changed from click-to-expand to hover-to-expand like the VOD episode pictures are. That way all pictures expand the same way. If you are having problems with that or other behaviors, try doing a force reload and/or clear cache. An old page may be looking for page behavior instructions in the wrong place. Still having problems drop a note to woody at wtule dot net noting your browser and OS. Sorry about that. Apparently we aren't as clever as we thought.
2021-01-12
Director Jerry Douglas Crosses the Celluloid Divide
An XBIZ article announces the death of director
Jerry Douglas, an important name in gay erotica for his media and theater productions and very importantly, to this index, the Manshots magazine, a researcher's wet dream. Many in the business are leaving their eulogies to their talented mentor.
2020-11-28
Memories of Bill Eld
Those of us of a certain age will remember the breathtakingly built and hung
Bill Eld. Director
Toby Ross has put together his memories of him in a poignant new video,
Bill Eld: American Pop Culture Icon which tells Eld's little known story. It is available now on
Amazon.
2020-03-13
Sebastian Young Dies in Police Shootout
St. Johns County Florida police announced that
Sebastian Young was killed in a shootout with them. After a hit-and-run, his car was suspected as being involved. He was chased at high speed, sometimes counter to traffic. When his vehicle stopped he was said to have gotten out of the car and fired at officers who returned his gunfire and killed him. News articles described him as a "sexual offender with lengthy arrest record."
Links to news articles:
Channel 4 Jacksonvile and
The Florida Times-Union.
2020-02-17
Family Dick and Young Perps Are Broken (Update)
Websites LatinLeche,
Family Dick and
Young Perps had their domain names hijacked. They are now being hosted off SayUncle.com but links directly to episodes are not available.
2020-01-19
Scotty Knox Killed in Car Accident
Mickey Knox has
confirmed that one of his coworkers,
Scotty Knox has been killed in a car accident.
2019-12-31
Macanao Torres Commits Suicide
Macanao Torres jumped from the top of his apartment building in Murcia, Spain on December 29th. In 2016 he was diagnosed with lymphoma and given 10 years to live. He always maintained his pride in having chosen to do porn.
2019-12-22
The Passing of a Legend
Director
William Higgins has died from a heart attack in Prague on his way to hospital on early Saturday morning, December 21st.
The prodigious (to put it politely) director has over 750 full length videos to his name and over 7,000 scenes on his website.
The Sword and
Back2Stonewall have articles
2019-12-11
Circus of Books Story Documentary Coming Out
To make ends meet a couple in Los Angeles took over an 'adult bookstore' in 1982. It closed in 2019. Their compassionate story and a note about a documentary made it to the BBC, of all places.
2019-10-29
Holdout Now Allows Downloads
Falcon Studios now allows members to do unlimited downloads off their website.
2019-10-14
Gunner Dexx Listed as Deceased
A user has pointed out that
Gunner Dexx has been listed on several sites as having died of an overdose in Florida on August 12th. No news articles have been published. Another tragic loss of a young gay man. He had only done two scenes very recently.
2019-10-09
2019-07-25
2019-06-14
Jay Dymel Is Lost
Falcon Studios noted the death of
Jay Dymel.
2019-05-12
2019-04-30
Casey Jacks Is Gone
Performer
Casey Jacks has died. He first appeared in 2017 and has had videos release as recently as April 2019.
XBIZ has a report on it and so does
Men of Porn where the cause was described as suicide.
2019-01-11
Hole Hunter Dies at Home of Political Donor
Performer
Hole Hunter was found dead at the age of 55 in the home of a big political donor to the Democratic Party, Ed Buck. This was the second black man to die at Buck's home in the last year. Drugs seem to have been involved in both cases although the source for them has not been identified. Conservatives are now after Buck's scalp and those who he has associated with.
2018-11-08
AVN Releases William Higgins Interview
AVN released a two part interview with
William Higgins covering his 40 year career in the porn business.
Part 1 and
Part 2.
2018-10-08
Gayhoopla Performer Kyle Dean Dies at Age 21
Gay Star News reports that performer
Kyle Dean has died. No details were available about the cause but it is tragic no matter what the reason.
2018-09-21
StraightBoyz Porn Website Creator Convicted
The creator of videos for the StraightBoyz website was convicted of tricking straight men into sexual encounters, filming without permission and using the video on his website. He told them he was a housewife then had them blindfolded and tied them to a chair after which he would give them a blowjob. The BaitBus website also has a similar format but the 'victims' are actually aware of the true nature of the sex that is to go down.
2018-06-14
Death of Peformer Tyler White
Broke Straight Boys performer
Tyler White has died.
2018-06-09
Death of Recent Peformer Dave Slick
While visiting Chicago for Exxxotica Expo,
Dave Slick was found dead.
2018-05-30
Death of Director Terry LeGrand
We have heard from reliable sources that directory
Terry LeGrand has died.
2018-05-01
Jimmy Durano in Serious Accident
Uber gay top performer
Jimmy Durano suffered severe head injuries that required a craniotomy. He has suffered complications requiring a return to intensive care and will need further surgery to replace the portions of his skull that had to be removed to deal with brain swelling. A friend set up a
GoFundMe campaign seeking monetary help to cover medical expenses.
2018-04-25
Death of Terry LeGrand
We have received news of the death of
director/producer/
performer Terry LeGrand.
2018-04-23
Chris Bines Sentenced for Marijuana Sales
After a guilty plea, performer
Chris Bines was sentenced to almost 5 years in prison for dealing in marijuana and for money laundering the proceeds. Along with 4 others he had been transporting pot from California to Florida. Some other defendants received longer sentences and one received a very short sentnece.
2018-04-21
Has Grant Fagan passed?
A contributor has pointed out a
burial record for one Eric Lawrence Grant Fagan that uses a picture of the 1980s performer
Grant Fagan. Seems unusual that a performer's stage name would be used on a burial and odd that we wouldn't have heard something. Does anyone have more information on this?
2018-03-05
Billy Herrington Killed in Car Accident
The mother of
Billy Herrington has announced his death, at age 48, on her website.
2018-01-14
Indexing ColbyKnox.com
We have added
ColbyKnox.com to our index. This website is run by
Colby Chambers and his husband
Mickey Knox. Their content features twinks like them and tends to be unscripted performances some from live feeds.
