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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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S4E32: Monroe Beehler / Jaguar Productions / The Rivermen
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Send us a Text Message. The Park theater, the Century theater, Signature Films, Jaguar Productions, these are jut 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 all of them was Monroe Beehler. A pioneering studio that was run out of a basement in the Hollywood Hills, …
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Send us a Text Message. 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 D.C. for work and graduate studies. There Montana would meet his husband and enroll in medical school. …
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S4E30: Arch Brown/The Night Before/Dick Fisk
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Send us a Text Message. 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 …
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Send us a Text Message. 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 w…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 gla…
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S3E27: Peter Berlin / Nights in Black Leather
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Send us a Text Message. 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 in…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 …
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S4E25: William Higgins / A Married Man / Kip Noll
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Send us a Text Message. 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 g…
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Send us a Text Message. 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, c…
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S4E23: Joe Gage / Kansas City Trucking Co. / Richard Locke
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Send us a Text Message. 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…
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S4E22: Scott Masters / Greek Lightning / Jimmy Hughes
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Send us a Text Message. 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 b…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 so…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 last met and I sat down to catch up on many of Sean's lofty goals, such as truck driving school, having ch…
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S4E19: The Joel Someone and King Dwarf Interview
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Send us a Text Message. 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 from coast to cast and studio to studio. Since last we spoke King Dwarf has gone from social media sensati…
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S4E18: Open Lines: Adult Baby Diaper Lovers
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Send us a Text Message. 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. ABDL can be either sexual or nonsexual depending on the person and how they derive their positive needs …
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S4E17: Peter De Rome / The Destroying Angel / Will Seagers
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Send us a Text Message. 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 recognition in the 70’s by Jack Deveau and then again some 40 years later with a new generation. The story …
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Send us a Text Message. 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 surface and find out what it took to make Jordan Jameson his own unique brand in adult entertainment, model…
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S4E15: Jack Deveau/Left-Handed/Wade Nichols
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Send us a Text Message. 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, along with his lover and business partner Robert Alvarez presided over one of the most well-regraded st…
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S4E14: Roger Earl / Born To Raise Hell / Val Martin
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Send us a Text Message. 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 at the same time as the other gay landmark films. However, this film’s focus is primarily on gay male s…
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Send us a Text Message. 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. Furries are part of a growing furry fandom. My good friend Spike (from the pup play episode) just happened to …
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S4E12: Jerry Douglas/The Back Row/George Payne
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Send us a Text Message. 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. Douglas is justly celebrated at the director of The Back Row one of the first hardcore films made after…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 decided to leave Russia and he moved to the big apple where he began shooting his own adult content. In ou…
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S4E10: J. Brian/Seven in a Barn/Dean Chasson
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Send us a Text Message. 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 classics today. Brian’s Seven in a Barn satisfies an an authentic artifact of early gay cinema made espe…
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S4E9: Fred Halsted/L.A. Plays Itself/Joey Yale
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Send us a Text Message. 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’s medium—as well as the cameraman’s. Halsted was in all senses a pornographer, but more an experimental…
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S4E8: Open Lines - The Puppy Play Episode
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Send us a Text Message. 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 play and why it is so damn popular. Puppy (or pup) play is a type of role-play behavior, in the outskirts …
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S4E7: Steven Toushin/Bijou Video/Centurians of Rome
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Send us a Text Message. 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 pornography. The Bijou Theatre opened its doors in 1970 during the height of the sexual revolution and at a ti…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 discusses how he was introduced to the east coast porn industry. From there we talk about his growing up in t…
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S4E5: Tom DeSimone /The Idol /Jack Wrangler
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Send us a Text Message. 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 involves real dialogue and genuine acting as the lead character comes to terms with his sexuality. And fina…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 their audience. There are sites that exist dedicated to men with small dicks, micro penis, etc... They ex…
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S4E3: Wakefield Poole / Boys in the Sand / Casey Donovan
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Send us a Text Message. 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-American Boy Next Door," who helped create a genre and was one of the most marketable adult and mainstr…
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Send us a Text Message. 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" attitude are on full display as we discuss growing up in the Virginia suburbs outside of Washington, D.C and s…
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S4E0: Season Prologue / The Surprise of a Knight
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Send us a Text Message. 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. There will still be plenty of model interviews. But I wanted to start putting together a detailed history o…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 first gay porn studio. Dakota a.k.a. Ken Sprague was a popular Colt Man who used his earnings and notoriet…
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Summer Sessions Ep. 5 - The Larger Than Life King Dwarf!
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Send us a Text Message. 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 New Jersey and shot the shit for about an hour about the growing pains early on in life. It wasn't unti…
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Summer Sessions Ep. 4 - Champ Addresses the C*m Dumplings Incident
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Send us a Text Message. 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 him. It was during one of these content sharing scenes that Champ was confronted by an queer Asian sex wor…
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Summer Sessions Ep. 3 - The Creator of Giants and Tiny Feet Productions
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Send us a Text Message. 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 other size enthusiasts, Ripper was fascinated watching movies like "Honey I Shrunk The Kid, and also rem…
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Summer Sessions Ep. 2 - Interview with a Pornosexual
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Send us a Text Message. 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 linked solely to porn. It's become so easy to get your hands on porn today that some people just don't fe…
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Summer Sessions Ep. 1 - The Side Position
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Send us a Text Message. 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 is. But, have you heard of a side? If you haven't, make way because here they come. Well they've always b…
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Send us a Text Message. 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 pony show? Lol! Of course I know who Davey is but it wasn’t until a listener of the podcast asked me ab…
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Send us a Text Message. If you haven’t already listened to the two macrophilia podcasts on the previous seasons Demystifying Gay Porn, JoeVoter is here to share his experiences with this fascinating fetish more popularly known as "Size Kink." Size kink goes by many different names. Macrophilia, macro for short, being the most basic definition you w…
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Send us a Text Message. A couple of weeks ago during a monthly sweep for new models in the NYC area, I noticed a cute Only Fans model who appeared on my Twitter feed. When I clicked on his page I noticed he was following me! I was like, "How did I miss this kid?" I reached out to Miguel, better known in the sex Twitter-sphere as "Migs," and wanted …
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S3E27: Christina, the kinky tax attorney and gay porn fan
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Send us a Text Message. It's been a while since Betsy, the female gay porn fan helped us get a woman's perspective of gay porn on season one of the podcast. I recently received an email from Christina, a fellow enthusiast in which she proclaimed her love for gay porn. So naturally, I wanted to hear all about it. Oh, but that's not all! Christina is…
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Send us a Text Message. Jake is an avid listener of the DGP podcast. When he reached out to me through Instagram we spoke briefly about his appreciation of men's underwear. After a couple of conversations, I asked him to come on the show and share his story. Jake has a collection of underwear that is close to four hundred pair deep. It’s what he li…
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S3E25: The 3rd Champ Robinson Interview
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Send us a Text Message. As you probably already know, Champ Robinson and I have known each other so such a long time. On one of his recent trips to L.A. I crashed at his place and grabbed this interview with him. Champ recently relaunched his website as Vision X, where he offers various different series thanks to the different themes he has played …
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Send us a Text Message. This week, I speak to Brian Bonds, who I have trying to set up an interview with for almost 4 years now. Brian came by and we spoke about living in sin city, Las Vegas, growing up in Arkansas closeted in a baptist family and coming out to his parents as first gay but then a porn star. Brian also does a lot for HIV advocacy a…
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S3E23: The Dillon Diaz and Jake Waters Interview
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Send us a Text Message. For the second season of the podcast, Dillon Diaz and I had a great conversation via zoom but I knew the minute I could be in the same town with him, I would want to have a face to face meeting and sit down. On this episode, Dillon and I discuss how the porn world has been for him since full-on production has resumed, the va…
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Send us a Text Message. I know it sounds painful BUT it's not what you think! On this week's "Open Lines" episode we talk to, E, who is a listener of the podcast and also happens to have a nipple fetish. E is attracted to men who are extremely turned-on by having their nipples touched, sucked and tweaked. I've been on many a porn set where in betwe…
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S3E21: The Military Classified Interview w. Rob Navarro
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Send us a Text Message. Before the end of Season 2, a fan of the DGP podcast asked me to interview Rob Navarro of Military Classified. I quickly searched his name and to my surprise, I knew exactly who he was and the work he did. And I was definitely a fan of his work! I contacted Rob and asked him if he’d be interested in appearing on the podcast.…
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Send us a Text Message. Every season I ask Joel Someone, "Where is the world are you? I want to interview you again." The reason being...well there are many reasons. Joel is a genuinely nice person with so many great stories because he is not one to shy away from new experiences. I was able to catch up with Joel again who is now an award-winning po…
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Send us a Text Message. If you don't know adult entertainer Daddy Cream aka Jovan Joseph, then this is a great introduction. I first met Daddy Cream in 2021. My first conversation with him was via text message. I remember being struck by how forward and business savvy he was. By then I was intrigued and I thought, " okay he talks this good, but doe…
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