Apparently they also make good money, significantly more than male performers in 'straight' porn.
Like straight porn 95 percent of gay porn is gonzo these days, not sure how you're using the term here.
Again, not sure about modern gay porn and the rougher end of things but I can't imagine it is any softer than straight porn. A lot of the rougher sex acts in straight porn were if anything 'borrowed' from gay porn. The film critic Howard Hampton noted that most of what Rocco brought to gonzo in the 90s was prefigured by a certain sexual subculture in gay bathhouses for instance.
1970s gay porn when it got rough got way, way rougher and perverse than even the most extreme straight porn (Color Climax and HOM aside). And God Created Men, Born to Raise Hell and LA Plays Itself are the best known examples of that.
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To be honest with you, since I left Colt Studios, the gay porn industry hasn't been the same. I think if you want to bring it back to the good ole days and gloryhole nights, hit me up and I might consider a comeback. My wife won't mind. I will suck and fuck dick to pay for the bills and inflation is no joke.