'Ultimate Fighter' Conttant Says 'Gay For Pay' Past Was Mistake - Towleroad Gay News

Contents:

• COOPER GAY & CASHMAN BE COOPER GAY INTERMEDIARI
• ‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE
• COOPER GAY PLET $3.5BN US MERGER
• COOPER GAY NEWS
• COOPER GAY NFIRMS LIGHTYEAR CAPAL VTMENT
• MOODY’S PLAC COOPER GAY RATGS ON REVIEW FOR DOWNGRA
• WILD WEEKEND! ANDY COHEN & ANRSON COOPER PARTY SHIRTLS AT SEX-FUELED GAY PRI BASH
• COOPER GAY REVENUE AND COMPETORS
• TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

COOPER GAY & CASHMAN BE COOPER GAY INTERMEDIARI

End they go home to their wiv and male adult performers who go "gay for pay, " a term ed to scribe gay porn which two (or more) otherwise straight dus have sex on mera, the above scenar is jt another day at the Male Porn Stars Are Straight — But They Have Sex Wh Men for a LivgSource: YouTubeThis week, MTV is airg an episo of Te Life explorg the liv of two such performers, and their stggl to balance the seemgly nflictg mands of their profsnal and personal liv. "Ben is a married fay man who recently started performg gay sex films to support his kids...

They're risg stars the gay porn dtry, but will the prsur of every day life force them to rensir their lucrative reers?

‘ULTIMATE FIGHTER’ CONTTANT SAYS ‘GAY FOR PAY’ PAST WAS MISTAKE

"Though the ble special is jt g out now, gay-for-pay porn is a fairly well-tablished phenomenon. In straight porn, the pay for men is notorly lower than the pay for women, so "gay porn [actors] general make a lot more than straight porn, " Damian McKnight, the CEO and producer of the succsful gay-for-pay se Broke Straight Boys, told the Daily Dot last year. The women get more exposure and rpect the dtry, and for gay porn 's the male stars.

In a book that me out earlier this year, Not Gay: Sex Between Straight Whe Men, thor Jane Ward argued that male sexualy is a lot more fluid than most of are willg to acknowledge. " she prevly told said, adult entertament publicist Mike Stabile told Mic that he believ the sexualy of a gay-for-pay porn star is likely to be a b more flexible than your average joe. "They seemed to have more of a fluid sexualy, or were jt extremely sexual, even if they intified as straight their private liv, " he said of the gay-for-pay actors he's worked wh the past.

"Of urse, there are some who are jt bee of the money, guys who sist on havg loud cellphone nversatns wh their girliends while on-set, or beg homophobic.

COOPER GAY PLET $3.5BN US MERGER

), another qutn remas: Why the hell are gay guys so drawn to porn featurg straight (or "straight") dus the first place? That's a ltle more plited, as some believe that gay men's tenncy to fetishize straight men engagg gay sex stems om a ep-rooted place of self-loathg or shame.

"Bee of ternalized homophobia (which typilly looms large before and durg the early g-out procs), they're more often lookg for men who act mascule, " thor Joe Kort wrote 2013 for the Huffgton Post. "Gay guys are attracted to hot guys, no matter of their orientatn, " he wrote 2012. "Also, many gay guys thk straight guys are even hotter bee they're so naturally butch and hard to get.

COOPER GAY NEWS

"Regardls of why sells, though, participatg gay-for-pay porn isn't always a walk the park.

For stance, when gay-for-pay porn star Chris Tyler was asked by the Village Voice what the harst part of his job was, he answered:"Takg a 10-ch-pl dick. "Talk about workg hard for the out the full preview for MTV's Te Life: I'm a Gay for Pay Porn Star below:Source: YouTube.

COOPER GAY NFIRMS LIGHTYEAR CAPAL VTMENT

“The time has e when we n serly and whout sensatnalism asss the gay and lbian experience of stud-era Hollywood, ” wrote William J. Mann “Wisecracker, ” a bgraphy that explored the very public “private life” of gay silent-era-leadg-man-turned-terr-rator-to the-lg-class, William Ha.

Takg his cue om Neal Gabler’s “An Empire of Their Own: How the Jews Invented Hollywood, ” Mann’s new book about gay Hollywood, “Behd the Screen, ” enavors to expla how gays and lbians shaped the those rears ls than faiar wh the stud era’s rise and fall--or gay polics and social history, for that matter--are relatively well aware of the fact that the same-sex-oriented played a major role . The stickg pot is precisely how that role was played, given the paradox of the culture’s stated disapproval of gays and lbians, and the haven that plac like Hollywood provid for sexual nonnformists.

Although the film dtry’s gays and lbians had eedom, they did not--until the 1990s--have any real gree of make or break power. Mayer’s mom-and-apple-pie paeans to the fictnal ultra-WASP Hardy fay, and that “mory wh-and-whout” of gays who, while never igng to raise their voic, slipped one past the goalie, as the sayg go, om time to time--as, for example, Jack Cole’s eye-poppgly homoerotic “Is There Anyone Here for Love? ” Ever sce homosexualy was vented as a behavral tegory by Karoly Maria Benkert, a Hungarian physician, 1869 and adopted by the medil profsn as a quasi-disease (mental illns or “geic fect, ” take your pick) the 20th, a prolonged stggle ensued to get this “elephant the bedroom” (and everywhere else the “hoe” for that matter) regnized as a simple fact of this stggle has by no means end, the last four s have seen the “unspeakable” spoken wh creasg regulary, if not honty, tobgraphi such as Arthur Lrents’ “Origal Story By” and David Graham’s “Castg About.

MOODY’S PLAC COOPER GAY RATGS ON REVIEW FOR DOWNGRA

” And jt last year, same-sexualy figured major news stori about everythg om hate crime laws to gay marriage bat to the Boy Suts ntroversy, the Salvatn Army sndal and the onle sexual pecdillo of HIV-posive reactnary uber-pund Andrew Sullivan.

WILD WEEKEND! ANDY COHEN & ANRSON COOPER PARTY SHIRTLS AT SEX-FUELED GAY PRI BASH

Or--to put the entire subject on a more vulgar Natnal Enquirer level--the movi are the most acceptable route to divg who’s gay and who isn’ don’t play that game.

More important, he’s well aware that “the closet is not an appropriate nstct” for scribg gay and lbian life at any level the stud era; Mann prefers the far more helpful terms “overt” and “circumspect” to scribe people and ntexts. The tegrated liv of today’s gay celebri weren’t possible back then. But, beg succsful, rpected and well-liked among his peers, Cor was able to navigate a “private life” the average gay or lbian of that era would em unparalleled s eedom.

COOPER GAY REVENUE AND COMPETORS

And then there’s “I Remember Mama, ” Gee Stevens’ credibly movg tribute to “fay valu” produced by Louella Parsons’ lbian dghter, Harriet, and wrten by DeWt Boen--a brilliant gay screenwrer whose creds clu “Cat People. ”Clearly there were profsns wh the dtry that were more “gay iendly” than others. Mann tells much about the reers of set rators Henry Grace, Hopks (whose creds clu “A Streetr Named Dire”) and Howard Bristol (“Rope”) takg to acunt a gay-bashg cint the latter suffered.

But the most genero portn of the book vers Hollywood’s top gay stume signers: Adrian, Travis Banton, Walter Plunkett and Orry-Kelly.

The first two, though wildly flamboyant and “obvly” gay, went so far as to marry. Mann not that the cidly macho Kelly, who once kept pany wh the young (pre-Randolph Stt) Cary Grant, never of urse nnects to the perennial problem prented by gay “visibily.

TOM HOLLAND’S GAY SEX SCENE 'THE CROWD ROOM' DEFEND BY FANS

” The “obv” gayns of Edward Everett Horton, Frankl Pangborn is one thg. Mann is most amg notg the “gay markers” of Clifton Webb, yet he’s as at a loss for words explag how and why he beme--at a very advanced age--a major “mastream” movie star.

’” And as every gay and lbian dividual knows, that’s all the difference the world--both personally and publicly.

”Shock, needls to say, persists the public md as central to gay Hollywood.