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• GAY CZECH PORN VIOS
• TAB HUNTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD'S BOY NEXT DOOR BEME A GAY IN
• IN CZECH REPUBLIC, GAY PORN PAYS THE BILLS
• CZECH HUNTER 558 | HOT TWKS PORN GAY VIOS
• GAY PRAGUE
• GAY RSIA

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A blon, square-jawed and wholome symbol of mid-century Amerin masculy, Hunter, born 1931 as Arthur Gelien, was gay but kept his sexualy a secret for the bulk of his reer, until g out his 2005 tobgraphy Tab Hunter Confintial: The Makg of a Movie Star. ”A product of an era that was famoly hospable to gay entertaers, Hunter kept up secret romanc wh film star Anthony Perks and figure skater Ronnie Robertson as movie studs trotted him out alongsi screen sirens Natalie Wood and Debbie Reynolds, wh whom he’d go on pretend dat. But not before an article Confintial, the bimonthly gossip rag om which Hunter’s memoir borrows s name, reported on the then 24-year-old’s volvement an arrt at a “limp-wristed pajama party” where other gay mal were attendance.

The article, Hunter felt, suated he’d been party to a “gay y”, a mor that might have torpedoed his reer given the ntemporaneo moral panic around homosexualy and the “lavenr sre” that led to mass firgs.

TAB HUNTER: HOW HOLLYWOOD'S BOY NEXT DOOR BEME A GAY IN

But what would revalize his reer earnt was a phone ll om John Waters, the transgrsive gay film-maker whose mpy sensibily hadn’t yet been fully embraced beyond midnight moviegoers. But, s Insi Baseball approach to revealg the ner workgs of Hollywood before, durg and after the stud era, is a remarkably sightful, nfint acunt of and by one of Hollywood’s first gay movie stars, a label by which the famoly self-effacg Hunter would surely be ath, though, Tab Hunter’s legend won’t fa.

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Those nng gay enterpris bet on that; the rooms are always immediately adjacent to the clubs. Bis the 1997 film “Mandragora” by the Polish director Wiktor Grocki, Valšík’s book is one of only a very few works om this untry about the issue of male -often labeled homosexual – prostutn.

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He was also a “streetwalker”, first at the ma tra statn, and then Prague’s gay clubs.

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Boys who make money gay clubs, or the worst-se scenar at the tra statn (like Honza, Milly and Roman) are nsired the lowt layer.

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Amid a persistg enomic crisis, men the Czech Republic are creasgly turng to a boomg unrground dtry for a shot at prospery - gay porn. Acrdg to a report by, the Czech Republic has bee one of the leadg productn centers for gay pornography, behd the Uned Stat, which still has a powerful grip on the ternatnal market. Some timat have gay porn acuntg for up to half of that.

Acrdg to the report, the prence of straight men gay sex scen boosts the films' sirabily. Iva Skoch's piece exam the orig of the dtry the Czech Republic, profil the Amerin entreprenr who led the gay porn revolutn the untry after the fall of Communism and looks at the men who have turned to pornography to make a livg.

Denis Reed, a Czech adult film star also known as Jan Velička, Pavel Mato, Honza XL, and Jan Vector, who appeared many gay films om William Higgs, Stax, and CzechBoys, died over the weekend  a motorcycle accint.