I’ve been watching the Google News headlines evolve over the past week about the gay porn star who murdered a wealthy Denver ‘benefactor’ in cold blood, but what I’m reading about the “Playgirl killer” murder case at Gay Porn Blog is equally chilling and fascinating. I knew, like many, that “Marcus Allen” was gay-for-pay, but I had no idea how deeply and dangerously his pathos and hatred of homosexuality went — and it brings up a lot of questions about homophobia, how it’s expressed and the whole gay-for-pay thing. Snip from my friends at Gay Porn Blog:
“Although he was a fairly well-known porn star (he starred in over a dozen movies over the past few years, and was named ‘Freshman of the Year’ by Freshman Magazine in 2003), he was a gun-collecting, homophobic straight man when away from the gay porn spotlight. Denver Post reports:
… Boham told Lara Holland, who lived in a Denver mansion on High Street in an apartment a floor below Boham, that he ‘sanitized’ his apartment by thoroughly scrubbing it because a gay man had lived there previously, she said.
‘He hated (gays),’ she said. ‘He hated their lifestyle.'”
Check out the post Marcus Allen, Murder Suspect and Playgirl Killer Apprehended, Hates Gays for more bizarre information on this whole thing, and also check out the Playgirl pics and many porn pics of Allen getitng his dick sucked, etc. (in those posts). I’ve often wondered what goes on in the mind of a gay-for-pay porn performer, and now I think it’s a pretty dark place — an ever-evolving, pathological combination of James Ellroy-esque masculinity and a culture that reinforces and encourages dishonesty about male sexuality. Makes me hate Playgirl even more for their internalized/projected homophobia, making gay porn stars use fake (or sometimes even their real-life) names to pose in their mag — Playgirl’s practice of this is common knowledge in and out of the porn industry. As if straight girls care if the hunk they jack off to is gay or not… but then again, when was the last time any of us jacked off to the eversofts in Playgirl? Anyway, it’s this kind of inherent dishonesty, I think, that allows murderous homophobia to evolve into an unchecked monster.
(…still waiting for my airport shuttle…)
