Zak Spears – 1993 AVN Award (pre- GayVN Awards) winner, 1993 Grabby Awards winner, "Best newcomer", "Best supporting performer"; 1993 Gay Erotic Video Awards winner; 1994 "Best actor" (tie); 1994 Adam Gay Video "Dave" Awards winner, "Best sex scene"; 1997 Probie winner; 2002 GayVN Awards winner, "Best actor" (tie);2004 Grabby winner, "Best duo scene", "Best non-sex performance"; 2005 GayVN winner, "Best non-sex performance"; Grabby Award hall of famer. [23] [53] [54] [46] [24] [28] [52] [51] [43] Gus Mattox – 2005 Grabby Award winner, "Best actor"; Dangerous Liaisons from Lucas Entertainment; 2006 GayVN Awards winner, "Performer of the year". [42] Tiger Tyson – 2008 GayVN Awards winner, "Hall of fame"; founder of Tiger Tyson Productions and co-founder of Pitbull Productions. Starred in over two dozen pornographic films, and directed several others. [55]

Danny Wylde – American pornographic actor who appeared in several gay pornographic films along with straight and bisexual pornographic films. He started his adult film career at age 19. [34]

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Billy Herrington – 2000 Probie winner; 2001 Grabby Awards winner, "Best group scene"; Conquered from All Worlds Video. [8] [9] Falconhead (Michael Zen, 1977) is still acclaimed by cultural critics as one of a few gay pornographic movies that tried to bring complexity to the blue movie. Inspired many contemporary pornographic directors (Morris, 2004). Featured in Unzipped Magazine's The 100 Greatest Gay Adult Films Ever Made (2005).

The 1980s were a period of transition for gay pornography film. The proliferation of VCRs made pornography videos easily accessible, and, as their prices fell, the market for home videos aimed at adult viewers became more and more lucrative. By the mid-1980s, the standard was to release pornography movies directly on video, which meant the wide disappearance of pornography theaters. Furthermore, video recording being more affordable, a multitude of producers entered the market, making low-budget pornography videos. Descent ( Steven Scarborough, 1999) Hot House Entertainment is a popular gay pornographic video with infrequent artistic qualities, by a prominent director and studio. Created legal dispute in Canada when the government tried to forbid its distribution in the name of obscenity rules. [38]a b c d Holt, Madeleine (March 4, 2008). "HIV scandal in gay porn industry". BBC . Retrieved May 10, 2008. McPhee, Mike (June 8, 2009). "Former gay-porn actor guilty of Denver murder". The Denver Post . Retrieved July 8, 2009. The Other Side of Aspen series, beginning in 1978, is among the Adult Video News' top ten all time gay movies. December RAD Boy Focus: Andy Kirra". RAD. December 1, 2005. Archived from the original on January 7, 2010 . Retrieved February 22, 2010. Southern California Sociological Society (1988), Sociology and social research, vol.73, p.96, In a typical example, the best known gay model of the 1980s, Kip Noll, made his first magazine appearance at age 22.

From 1970 to 1985, commercial gay pornography was just getting set up to become the large industry that it is today. [21] Because it was in the fledgling stage, it recruited actors from the only network it had access to: the gay community. [21] Even among members of the gay community, people willing to act in gay porn were hard to come by due to the social stigma and implicated social risk of being publicly out. [21] 1980s Roger Hagedorn, “Doubtless to Be Continued: A Brief History of Serial Narratives,” in To Be Continued . . . Soap Operas around the World, ed. Robert Allen (New York and London: Routledge, 1995), 31.The list includes male actors in gay pornographic films who may be notable for their gay pornography and those who may be notable for other reasons or both. The listing is alphabetic by first name. Some performers have many pseudonyms and stage names (indicated here by a.k.a.). Multiple pseudonyms are utilized for a variety of reasons including legal constraints, the appearance of having more actors working at a studio, an actor's wishing to disguise how many films he is working on or that he is doing work for another studio, etc. Niels Van Doorn, “Keeping It Real: User-Generated Pornography, Gender Reification, and Visual Pleasure,” Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies 16, no. 4 (November 2010): 414–15. History The Swimming Hole (1884–85) by the American artist Thomas Eakins (1844–1916) is regarded as a masterpiece of American painting, [2] [3] and has been called "the most finely designed of all his outdoor pictures". [4] The painting has been "widely cited as a prime example of homoeroticism in American art". [5] Eakins himself appears in the water at bottom right – "in signature position, so to speak." [6] According to Jonathan Weinberg, The Swimming Hole marked the beginning of homoerotic imagery in American art. [7] Early modern in the United States

Shawn Suyong Yi Jones, “ Jemok Eopseum: The Repurposing of Tumblr for Gay South Korean DIY pornography,” Porn Studies 7, no. 3 (2020): 303–14. a b "AVN Hall of Fame". Archived from the original on September 29, 2007 . Retrieved December 27, 2007.Past AVN Award Winners". Archived from the original on October 20, 2007 . Retrieved January 7, 2008. Clodualdo del Mundo Jr., “Philippine Movies in 2001: The Film Industry Is Dead! Long Live Philippine Cinema!,” Asian Cinema 14, no. 1 (March 2003): 167. Mike Grimshaw, “Digital Society and Capitalism,” Palgrave Communications 3, no. 1 (November 2017): 1. Obituary of Erik Stryker from Manshots September 1988, "Manshot's magazine: 1988 – 2001, publication Model listings. Gay Erotic Archives. February 2006. Skin Gang ( Bruce LaBruce, 1999) Cazzo Film is a film by art/porn director LaBruce. Aired in gay film festivals around the world.