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| Asmodeus Lord of Lust  az-mo-day-us 6338 Posts 10/01 |  Posted - Dec 7 2006 : 10:30PMBy Doug Lawrence and AVN.com LOS ANGELES - Gay porn pioneer Matt Sterling died today at Cedars-Sinai hospital. Director John Travis, a Sterling friend and colleague for 40 years, told GAYVN that Sterling died of a motor neuron disease he was diagnosed with 18 years ago. Sterling's real name was Jack Dufault. Sterling, along with Travis, Falcon Studios founder Chuck Holmes, and John Summers, could almost be said to have founded the gay porn industry in California in the 1960s and '70s. His first gay line was the legendary Brentwood Studios. But it was his movies for Huge Video, from A Matter Of Size to Forced Entry that cemented his name in gay porn history. Because of his illness, Sterling directed very little from the mid-'90s on. His final movies were Feast Your Eyes and a A Matter Of Size 2. No word is yet available on funeral services. Edited by - Asmodeus on Dec 9 2006  [Link] |
| Asmodeus Lord of Lust az-mo-day-us 6338 Posts 10/01 | Posted - Dec 7 2006 : 10:34PM |
| Billy Bathgate Member Choooooooch! 507 Posts 7/02 | Posted - Dec 13 2006 : 8:43PM There is a decent list of key movies in gay porn history on Wikipedia (toward end of article) and there a couple of Sterling flicks listed. But the AVN article suggests Sterling was one of the two or three directors that almost established gay porn. I think that’s a bit of an overreach. While his contributions were major—particularly for the quality production values, as the Wikipedia list suggests, there were many pioneers who came before him and contemporaries who were doing similar stuff. BJ Land (for one) has an interesting pornology and lists his favorite directors, most of whom would be considered, I think, gay porn pioneers.  [Link] |
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