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Monday, July 10, 2023
David Grant
The message David Grant over the shoulder shirt is a subtle (or not so subtle) message:
"Look, I've taken off my clothes just for you. I'm available."
Those of us who are familiar with gay adult titles remember him as Clay Russell. He already had a couple of films under his belt when he posed for PG in 1979. He went on to do many more films well into the 1990s.
Years ago I read an interview with one of the PG editors. She said they always had their models use their real names. Something about being true to themselves and the readers.
Thanks for the info, James! I never knew that about the names. A few of them sounded like they were made up, but not so. I'm going to have to go back to my Playgirl files and take another look.
Yep, Clay Russell, hugely famous at one point & AFAIK the most famous gay porn star to be in Playgirl, except maybe Alex Stone. The copy w this spread talked about him being on "Wheel of Fortune" & winning a trip...I wonder if that part was true.
Their Editor-in-Chief & founder, Ira Ritter, was a man, so of course. Plus I'm sure it came up in the photo shoots sometimes. It's "show biz", they don't care about reality
To be read in cut glass Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard accents, with a WWI military band playing Pack Up Your Troubles (In Your Old Kit-Bag) quietly in the background.
Oh, Charles! Oh, Fiona! Oh, Charles.... Is it, is it awful at the front, Charles? Oh, Fiona... It is simply ghastly at the front. What is it like, Fiona, back there, where you are? Oh Charles.... It's simply horrid here, where I am, at the back. Oh Fiona... I know... and it's not too hot on the sides, either. But don't worry darling, it will soon grow out....
Mr Grant is the one exception today that proves the rule. He has short hair.
Just the thought of a handsome hunk like David Grant saying "Look, I've taken off my clothes just for you. I'm available" would have made the teenager that I was in 1979 very happy!
Those of us who are familiar with gay adult titles remember him as Clay Russell. He already had a couple of films under his belt when he posed for PG in 1979. He went on to do many more films well into the 1990s.
ReplyDeleteYears ago I read an interview with one of the PG editors. She said they always had their models use their real names. Something about being true to themselves and the readers.
Thanks for the info, James! I never knew that about the names. A few of them sounded like they were made up, but not so. I'm going to have to go back to my Playgirl files and take another look.
DeleteYep, Clay Russell, hugely famous at one point & AFAIK the most famous gay porn star to be in Playgirl, except maybe Alex Stone.
DeleteThe copy w this spread talked about him being on "Wheel of Fortune" & winning a trip...I wonder if that part was true.
Did the PG editors know some of their models were homosexual? If so, they obviously did not care.
ReplyDeleteI have no documentation, but I figure they had to know in at least some cases.
DeleteTheir Editor-in-Chief & founder, Ira Ritter, was a man, so of course. Plus I'm sure it came up in the photo shoots sometimes. It's "show biz", they don't care about reality
DeleteTo be read in cut glass Celia Johnson and Trevor Howard accents, with a WWI military band playing Pack Up Your Troubles (In Your Old Kit-Bag) quietly in the background.
ReplyDeleteOh, Charles!
Oh, Fiona!
Oh, Charles.... Is it, is it awful at the front, Charles?
Oh, Fiona... It is simply ghastly at the front. What is it like, Fiona, back there, where you are?
Oh Charles.... It's simply horrid here, where I am, at the back.
Oh Fiona... I know... and it's not too hot on the sides, either. But don't worry darling, it will soon grow out....
Mr Grant is the one exception today that proves the rule. He has short hair.
Styles change over time, don't they?
DeleteJust the thought of a handsome hunk like David Grant saying "Look, I've taken off my clothes just for you. I'm available" would have made the teenager that I was in 1979 very happy!
ReplyDeleteYou and a lot of others.
DeleteEven more if you'd known he was a famous gay porn star later, Clay Russell!
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