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. Some performers have many pseudonyms and stage names (indicated here by a.k.a.). 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.
Several major shifts affected the gay porn industry: the advent of home video when anyone could purchase a movie to view in private the AIDS pandemic, which compelled models to be extremely healthy-looking and caused safer sex depictions to become the standard on-screen and the emergence of the Internet allowing live streaming, social networking and amateur pornography to change how stars are discovered, marketed and even viewed as the films do not have to be copied, packaged and delivered, although those options remain. Over time the " heterosexual adult industry blossomed in Southern California" and often included gay content. The modern roots of films can be traced to the early 1970s when movies were shown in New York theaters. Gay pornographic films trace their origins to the Athletic Model Guild, founded in Los Angeles in 1945, which produced photographs and still images later turned into films and porn loops.
The gay market is estimated to be five to ten percent of the overall adult market.
Pornography has become more mainstream and as of 2009 was a $13 billion industry in the United States globally consumers spent more than US$3000 on porn every second of every day, in 2009. This is a list of notable men who have appeared in gay pornographic films. The layout was called “New York’s Finest”.6 gay pornographic actors during the 2010 Blatino Erotica Awards My thoughts are with his family and friends.”Īlthough he stopped doing porn in 2008, Barak recently appeared in an Out magazine fashion spread alongside porn actors in the January, 2012 issue of Out Magazine. It’s hard to believe he’s not with us any longer. “He had a perfect physique and was one of the smartest and kindest people I have filmed - a massive man of pure beauty, intelligence and kindness. “Roman Ragazzi (Dror Barak) was one of the finest men I have even known,” said Chris Ward, president of Raging Stallion Studios and Falcon Studios, who had worked directly with the Israeli performer. Through a spokesman today, the head of Barak’s former porn studio issued a statement mourning his death. I will call you back.” Soon after, he left the consulate and tendered his resignation. Contacted by Page Six at the time, Barak reportedly said, “I don’t know. The boyfriend also told a gay porn blog that “details are mostly personal depression issues.”Īfter The New York Post’s Page Six column confronted Barak with e-mails implying he was renting himself out for “modeling” work in 2007, he quit his post in the Israeli Consulate’s administrative offices. “He was a hard working man who built a very successful personal training business with very successful and dedicated clients.” After his firing, Barak had launched a business called Freedom Fitness under the name Drew Barak. “Dror was not some drug addicted, party obsessed, former porn star,” the boyfriend said. Dror Barak, the New York City-based Israeli Consulate employee whose sideline in gay porn got him fired from his day job in 2007, has reportedly committed suicide.īarak’s boyfriend - who was not named - told Out.com that the porn star, who performed as “Roman Ragazzi,” took his own life last Thursday.