August-December
Sometimes the porn companies "own" the names, so when the same actor appears in a movie of a different company, he should use a different name.
If you're wondering what Leo Giamani is up to these days, wonder no more. We got word from Leo himself that he's definitively left the porn biz. So for you fans that were delighted to see Leo Giamani's brief return earlier this year you'll have to be satisfied with these recent videos and his previous work. Yeah, we're disappointed to hear the news although it doesn't come that unexpectedly.
We won't go into any of the rumors and stories about Leo Giamani except for one. For a long time there have been a few sites and people commenting on blogs, discussion groups, etc who feel the need to reveal the real names of porn stars & models. Even when some of these stars & performers ask that these people refrain from revealing their identities they persist. They're a bit like the online version of porn paparazzi who don't really care if they're potentially screwing with people's lives. For several months this has happened to Leo Giamani and he's spent time trying to fix this problem. We're not saying that this is the reason he quit the biz, but it sure didn't help.
At last week's Cocktails With The Stars special guest Chi Chi LaRue said many nice things about several people in the biz and one these was Leo Giamani. Essentially she said he was nice & quiet guy who also possessed a commanding presence. We have to agree. So, we wish Leo Giamani well in his future endeavors and hope that sometime in the future he'll be able to update us on them.
http://manhuntdaily.com/2014/04/leo-giamani-has-sort-of-made-a-comeback/
Leo Giamani is one of those people who’s been out of the adult industry for years, yet people still jot down his name when they’re making a list of their favorite gay porn stars (as one tends to do). Even though he was never the most exciting performer in his work with Falcon, Randy Blue and the handful of other studios who worked with him, it’s hard to deny he had a physical presence that made most of us go weak in the knees—that face, that body, that dick, that ass, that everything.
For his 2014 comeback, Leo has decided to reemerge in the most boring way possible! He filmed a solo with Paragon Men that does little more than show us what he looks like today, which is fine, but it would be 900,000 times more interesting if he did it with a dick in his mouth… But, hey, I guess folks want to see this? You might be one of them, so I should probably stop being such a boner-kill.
– Dewitt
The link in the previous message appears to be broken as of Jan 2015; luckily, the film itself still seems to be around https://www.gaytorrent.ru/details.php?id=eaf88be35e2f4c1ccbc7defa87a3a07a839fe2946bf591f5
so cool! I really need to try it one day…
As far as I remember the thug/bad boy theme is not limited to the "black gay porn", e.g., think about Triga (white British scally boys) and Citébeur (French men of colour). As Wikipedia aptly puts it "Citébeur films also include a play on fetish, fantasy and stereo-typical perceptions by non-whites of the of ethnic man: work-horse, well-endowed genitalia, urban style clothing, liaisons in the unknown poor and dangerous suburbs of large cities, interracial sexual relations, thus popularising such imagery amongst the homosexual population and promoting greater visibility and a more positive attitude towards minorities of ethnic background." While I do not necessarily agree with the "promoting a more positive attitude" part, playing with stereo-types is obviously present in the Citébeur films. As far as I understand this can also be said about the black gay porn.
Student athletes at Duke University are taking part in a powerful campaign to challenge homophobia, transphobia, and other prejudice.
The Facebook and Twitter campaign, titled ‘You Don’t Say’, sees a number of students at the university explaining why they are uncomfortable with the use of certain words. In addition to sexuality and gender, the campaign – which is a collaboration between student groups Think Before You Talk and Blue Devils United – also touches on race, disability and sexism.
Daniel Kort of the Blue Devils United told the Duke Chronicle: “Sports are really integral to our campus culture, and with that comes a pretty big microphone around our athletic culture. “It’s easier to dismiss a message if it’s coming from a social justice-oriented group on campus.
“By getting people who aren’t traditionally seen as the social justice kids on campus to stand up for this message, it carries a lot more weight. It’s also that these student-athletes care a lot about the issues.” Think Before You Tak president Jay Sullivan added: “Often people look at this and say, ‘Oh, they’re trying to censor speech’. “What really this is is student-athletes that are taking a stand on a social issue they care about.
“The word represents something more than that. That’s why it was important to get people who were very passionate about it.”
I've done it on a number of occasions (parkings, restrooms, parks)–-while anonymity and the possibility of being caught gives a thrill, you should be very careful what do you do, with whom and how.