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Zak Spears
Zak Spears, (born January 15, 1965) is an American gay pornographic film actor. Spears appeared in the feature film ''The Doom Generation'' (1995) using his real name, Khristofor Rossianov. Spears also appeared in the black comedy feature film ''Forgiving the Franklins'' (2006) under the name Khris Scaramanga. The film's director, Jay Floyd, said that having Spears in his film helped raise its profile. "I have one star in my movie," Floyd told ''The Los Angeles Times''. "He just happens to be a porn star." Initially retiring from the industry in 1996, he made a return in 2004 in the film ''Zak Attack'', sporting a dramatic image change which included a shaved head and a much bulkier build. Awards Grabby Awards * 1993 Best Newcomer * 1994 Best Actor, a tie with Ty Fox * 2000 Wall of Fame inductee * 2004 Best Duo Sex Scene, with Johnny Hazzard in ''Bolt''; tied with Tag Adams and Aiden Shaw in ''Perfect Fit'' * 2004 Best Non-Sex Performance, in ''Buckleroos'' Parts I and II ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Chicago
(''City in a Garden''); I Will , image_map = , map_caption = Interactive Map of Chicago , coordinates = , coordinates_footnotes = , subdivision_type = Country , subdivision_name = United States , subdivision_type1 = State , subdivision_type2 = Counties , subdivision_name1 = Illinois , subdivision_name2 = Cook and DuPage , established_title = Settled , established_date = , established_title2 = Incorporated (city) , established_date2 = , founder = Jean Baptiste Point du Sable , government_type = Mayor–council , governing_body = Chicago City Council , leader_title = Mayor , leader_name = Lori Lightfoot ( D) , leader_title1 = City Clerk , leader_name1 = Anna Valencia ( D) , unit_pref = Imperial , area_footnotes = , area_tot ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Tom Of Finland
Touko Valio Laaksonen (8 May 1920 – 7 November 1991), pseudonym Tom of Finland, was a Finnish artist who made stylized highly masculinized homoerotic art, and influenced late 20th-century gay culture. He has been called the "most influential creator of gay pornographic images" by cultural historian Joseph W. Slade.Slade, Joseph W.Pornography and Sexual Representation: A Reference Guide, Volume 2.Pp. 545–546. Greenwood Publishing Group, 2001. Over the course of four decades, he produced some 3,500 illustrations, mostly featuring men with exaggerated primary and secondary sex traits, wearing tight or partially removed clothing. Early life Laaksonen was born on 8 May 1920 and raised by a middle-class family in Kaarina, a town in southwestern Finland, near the city of Turku.Löfström, pp. 189. Both of his parents Suoma and Edwin Laaksonen were schoolteachers at the grammar school that served Kaarina. The family lived in the school building's attached living quarters. He we ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
American People Of Russian Descent
American(s) may refer to: * American, something of, from, or related to the United States of America, commonly known as the "United States" or "America" ** Americans, citizens and nationals of the United States of America ** American ancestry, people who self-identify their ancestry as "American" ** American English, the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States ** Native Americans in the United States, indigenous peoples of the United States * American, something of, from, or related to the Americas, also known as "America" ** Indigenous peoples of the Americas * American (word), for analysis and history of the meanings in various contexts Organizations * American Airlines, U.S.-based airline headquartered in Fort Worth, Texas * American Athletic Conference, an American college athletic conference * American Recordings (record label), a record label previously known as Def American * American University, in Washington, D.C. Sports teams Soccer * ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Living People
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1965 Births
Events January–February * January 14 – The Prime Minister of Northern Ireland and the Taoiseach of the Republic of Ireland meet for the first time in 43 years. * January 20 ** Lyndon B. Johnson is Second inauguration of Lyndon B. Johnson, sworn in for a full term as President of the United States. ** Indonesian President Sukarno announces the withdrawal of the Indonesian government from the United Nations. * January 30 – The Death and state funeral of Winston Churchill, state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II. * February 4 – Trofim Lysenko is removed from his post as director of the Institute of Genetics at the Russian Academy of Sciences, Academy of Sciences in the Soviet Union. Lysenkoism, Lysenkoist theories are now treated as pseudoscience. * February 12 ** The African and Malagasy Republic, Malagasy Common Organization ('; OCA ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josh Weston
Chad Jason Hull (January 20, 1973 – December 16, 2012), better known as Josh Weston, was an American pornographic actor who appeared in gay pornographic films and magazines. Personal life and career A native of Nevada, after graduating from college he moved to San Francisco and commenced a career as a personal trainer. He was discovered by adult film producer/director Chi Chi LaRue while dancing at the Nob Hill Theatre. In 2001, he signed an exclusive contract with Falcon Studios.Jason St. Amand"'Gay Porn Star Josh Weston Dead At 39" ''Edge'', 19 December 2012 After the ending of his contract, he worked with a number of bareback and mainstream gay pornography studios. Weston died at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco on December 16, 2012 from septic shock and bacterial endocarditis, which were complications related to his HIV positive status. He was 39. At the time of his death, he was apparently writing a memoir titled ''Sleeping My Way to the Bottom''. Awa ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
AVN Awards
The AVN Awards are film awards sponsored and presented by the American adult video industry trade magazine '' AVN'' (''Adult Video News'') to recognize achievement in various aspects of the creation and marketing of American pornographic films. They are often called the "Oscars of porn". The awards are divided into over 100 categories, some of which are analogous to industry awards offered in other film and video genres and others that are specific to pornographic/ erotic film and video. ''AVN'' sponsored the first AVN Awards ceremony in February 1984. The award ceremony occurs in early January during the AVN Adult Entertainment Expo in Las Vegas, Nevada. Since 2008, the ceremony has aired in a form edited for time on Showtime, which is usually broadcast in a 90-minute time slot. Awards for gay adult video were a part of the AVN Awards from the 1987 ceremony through the 1998 ceremony. The increasing number of categories made the show unwieldy. For the 1999 ceremony ''AVN ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GayVN Awards
The GayVN Awards are film awards presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornographic industry. The awards were sponsored by '' AVN Magazine'', the parent publication of ''GAYVN Magazine'', and continue the recognition for gay pornography which was part of the AVN Awards from 1986–1998. The awards went on a hiatus after the 2011 ceremony and returned in 2018. The award recipients are listed below by the year of the award ceremony. In 1998, the first year of the awards, awards were given for that current year's work. Starting with the awards show held in 2000, the awards were given for the previous year's work. For example, the 8th GAYVN Awards were held Thursday, March 9, 2006; awards were given for the movies that were released in 2005. The awards have been held annually since 2000. The current record-holder for the most wins in one year is Lucas Entertainment's ''Michael Lucas' La Dolce Vita'' (2006), which won 14 awards in 2007. The previous record-holder with ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
List Of Male Performers In Gay Porn Films
This is a list of notable men who have appeared in gay pornographic films. Pornography has become more mainstream and as of 2009 was a $13 billion industry in the United States; globally consumers spent more than US$3000 on porn every second of every day, in 2009. The gay market is estimated to be five to ten percent of the overall adult market. Gay pornographic films trace their origins to the Athletic Model Guild, founded in Los Angeles in 1945, which produced photographs and still images later turned into films and porn loops.Hub of all that's hot: San Francisco – surprise! – has surpassed Los Angeles as the capital of the gay adult entertainment industry ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Falcon Studios
Falcon Entertainment (also known as Falcon Studios), a United States company based in San Francisco, California, is one of the world's largest producers of gay pornography. Founded in 1971 by Chuck Holmes, Archived by web.archive.org. the company is one of the most recognizable brand names in gay pornography. The owners/managers of several of its major American competitors, Hot House Entertainment, Colt Studios, Channel 1 Releasing and Titan Media ( Steven Scarborough, John Rutherford, Chi Chi LaRue, Bruce Cam, respectively) previously worked for Falcon. Products Falcon has issued more than 400 pornographic films under several brand names comprising The Falcon Family of Companies: * Falcon Studios is the group's flagship brand * Jocks Studios focuses on younger models * Mustang Studios features more mature models * Massive Studios focuses on muscular and rugged models * The Falcon International Collection shoots films in Europe and focuses on European (mostly Eastern E ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Illinois
Illinois ( ) is a U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern United States. Its largest metropolitan areas include the Chicago metropolitan area, and the Metro East section, of Greater St. Louis. Other smaller metropolitan areas include, Peoria metropolitan area, Illinois, Peoria and Rockford metropolitan area, Illinois, Rockford, as well Springfield, Illinois, Springfield, its capital. Of the fifty U.S. states, Illinois has the List of U.S. states and territories by GDP, fifth-largest gross domestic product (GDP), the List of U.S. states and territories by population, sixth-largest population, and the List of U.S. states and territories by area, 25th-largest land area. Illinois has a highly diverse Economy of Illinois, economy, with the global city of Chicago in the northeast, major industrial and agricultural productivity, agricultural hubs in the north and center, and natural resources such as coal, timber, and petroleum in the south. Owing to its centr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
GayVN Award For Best Actor
The GayVN Award for Best Actor is an award presented annually by AVN Media Network at the GayVN Awards, given to a gay porn actor for his performance in a leading role in a film released that year. Initially, achievements in gay pornography were recognized by AVN Media Network at the AVN Awards, until the creation of the GayVN Awards The GayVN Awards are film awards presented annually to honor work done in the gay pornographic industry. The awards were sponsored by '' AVN Magazine'', the parent publication of ''GAYVN Magazine'', and continue the recognition for gay pornograp .... The 1st GayVN Awards ceremony was held in 1998, with Vince Rockland receiving the award for his performance in ''Three Brothers''. The second ceremony was held in 2000, with the GayVN Awards taking place annually until 2010. Following this the GayVN Awards would enter a seven-year hiatus, coming back in 2018. Since its inception, the award has been given to 20 actors. With two wins, Tony Donovan is ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
