QClassic Hottie: Joey Stefano
There aren’t that many true superstars of gay porn. Jeff Stryker is definitely one, Lukas Ridgeston also. It’s a short list, as it should be, since not just anyone can be a world famous, above-the-title, true superstar. Today, we look at another member of this most exclusive pantheon, Joey Stefano.
Amid the mega talents of today’s gay porn world, Joey’s legendary stamina as a bottom seems almost quaint, since the arrival of sites like Sean Cody and Corbin Fisher has taught us that there are plenty of men out there who can take cock like champions. But Joey’s ass was only the tip of his monumental iceberg, a shipwrecking strength object made out of off-the-scale charisma, movie star good looks, and a tortuous backstory that ended with Joey’s premature death from a drug overdose and his reincarnation as a myth.
Joey lived fast and died young, churning out a massive body of work in only a couple of years, mainly for Falcon Studios. His importance in the evolution of gay porn is hard to overstate: he was, simply, the first bottom to be the major drawcard in his movies, and this was a seismic shift away from the “take that cock” machismo of his predecessors, exemplified by Stryker. Gay porn used to be all about the tops, until Joey came along. And things have never been the same since.
Because there was more to Joey’s appeal than just watching him getting fucked. It was also in the way that he didn’t put on an act, or play a Ken Doll version of a man, as most of the porn performers before him had been directed to do. Joey’s on screen persona was indistinguishable from his actual identity, and he made no effort to be anything other than a cock-hungry gay boy living and working in West Hollywood. And this was the second way that Joey revolutionised the gay porn industry: no more deep-voiced fantasia set in mechanics garages or prisons, but just gay guys being themselves, and allowing viewers to really identify with them. For example, this non-porn clip of Joey chatting away is no different, really, from the flirtatious way he spoke and acted in his movies:
Joey was the real gay deal. Before him, contrivance was the norm. After him, only realistic gay porn would do. Thinking of it this way, it’s not a stretch to attribute the wave of straightforward, online based gay porn studios exemplified by Sean Cody, Chaos Men and especially CockyBoys to Joey’s influence. Horny urban guys getting off without any attempt to play up to any role other than the one they were born with.
Oh, and he was also handpicked to appear in Madonna’s SEX book, for the sequence set in the infamous Gaiety Theatre where Joey danced for handfuls of loyal patrons even during the height of his fame.
Are you a Joey Stefano fan?
