Demystifying Gay Porn

Apr 22 2024 179
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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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S4E30: Arch Brown/The Night Before/Dick Fisk

Apr 22 2024 22 mins  
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 been compared to the works of Jean-Luc Godard

S4E29: The SantanaXXL Interview

Mar 28 2024 36 mins  
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 he's got in store for us.Support t

S4E28: The Masked Jock Interview

Feb 23 2024 39 mins  
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 accepted. We sat down to discuss Masked Jock's st

S3E27: Peter Berlin / Nights in Black Leather

Feb 17 2024 15 mins  
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 internationally due to it’s sexual representation but p

S4E26: The Apollo Fates Interview

Feb 03 2024 54 mins  
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., I'd have to try and work with him. We d

S4E25: William Higgins / A Married Man / Kip Noll

Jan 29 2024 24 mins  
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 cinema. Kip Noll was a fantasy for so many men

S4E24: The Teddy Forest Interview

Nov 30 2023 38 mins  
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 living in New York City, Teddy continues his

S4E23: Joe Gage / Kansas City Trucking Co. / Richard Locke

Nov 21 2023 28 mins  
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 closeted straight man and the new gay masculine se

S4E22: Scott Masters / Greek Lightning / Jimmy Hughes

Oct 20 2023 21 mins  
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 hit, it has the capacity of shifting the cu

S4E21: The Benvi Interview

Sep 16 2023 16 mins  
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, Benvi has reclaimed his narrative and has a prom