David Randolph Hurl (September 12, 1944 – April 12, 2023) was an Amerin gay pornographer, whose one-man pany, n om a private mailbox, was lled Old Reliable Tape and Picture Company. His work, produced primarily the 1970s and 1980s, falls to three tegori: photographs, d tap, and viotap. Hurl’ mols were typilly ex-nvicts, htlers, drifters, and ne’er do wells and we loved .
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- OLD RELIABLE GAY VIOS
- LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI
- LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI AT 78
OLD RELIABLE GAY VIOS
Back the day, 1977, when no other gay magaze (of the few that existed) would touch his darg photographs, I was edor chief of Dmmer and was the first to publish David’s imag.
LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI
As I hoped, his men were an stant h wh the leathermen who unrstood how I was homomasculizg Dmmer so that was about manls as much as leather. Begng May 1975, David ved me to the unrworld of his many adventur which I thought a signifint part of the epic history of emergg gay culture. (Except for Andy Warhol to whom Sony gave a vio mera and rerr 1966, hardly anyone gay culture had a vio mera before nsumer vio mera were troduced 1982 at about the same time HIV was also troduced.
LEGENDARY GAY PORNOGRAPHER DAVID HURL DI AT 78
All of the gay 1960s and Tanic 1970s was shot on silent film. Vio brought improved image and actual sound to gay culture. The first gay vio crics ma the mistake that gay vio should have the formal quali of a big-budget MGM productn; they did not unrstand vio vere.
Old Reliable, who had been a major h d and still photography, ught the wave and beme an stant classic the new gay vio dtry. He was ankly a weak wrer and a really rather terrible media reviewer who never really ever unrstood how vio was not film, or that most gay men really did not want vios of mols pretendg to be chicken unr 18.
Old Reliable’s photographs of tough guys, ex-ns, and workg-class men ially reflect several visible groups gay culture: whe trash, ex-ns, blacks, and Latos.