Starz

by Owen Keehnen

If you've ever wondered what really goes on behind the scenes in the white-hot, sweat-sleazy world of gay porn, then STARZ is for you. If you've ever wondered what it's like to actually be a XXX star, then STARZ is for you. And if you've ever wanted to know what makes the men who love to rock while the cameras are rolling tick, then STARZ is definitely for you! Author/columnist Owen Keehnen interviews over 60 of the top performers in Triple X-dom in this scorching and photo-crammed new release from STARBooks Press. Find out how they got started, what they love and loathe about the industry, their secrets of seduction, and what turns them on. Discover which of their costars they've most loved working (with), how the business has changed their lives, about the sex itself, both on and off the screen, and much, much more. Get hip to the most intimate details from porn pros like Michael Lucas, Caesar, Donnie Russo, Michael Brandon, Zak Spears, Carlos Morales, Matt Sizemore, Chad Hunt, Bobby Blake, Chris Steele, and Will Clark, to name but a few of your favorites.

Paperback

First published November 1, 2005

About the author

Writer and historian Owen Keehnen has had his fiction, essays, erotica, reviews, columns and interviews appear in dozens of magazines and anthologies worldwide. Keehnen is the author of the humorous gay novel Young Digby Swank (Wilde City Press, 2013), the gay novel The Sand Bar (Lethe Press, 2012) and the horror novel Doorway Unto Darkness (Dancing Moon Press, 2010). He also recently released the reference book The LGBT Book of Days (Wilde City Press, 2013). Along with Tracy Baim, he co-authored Leatherman: The Legend of Chuck Renslow (Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011) as well as Jim Flint: The Boy From Peoria (Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011). Over 100 of his interviews with various LGBT authors and activists from the 1990s have been collected in the book We’re Here, We’re Queer (Prairie Avenue Productions, 2011). He recently finished editing For My Brothers, the Mark Abramson memoir about life and love in San Francisco during the height of the AIDS epidemic. He co-edited Nothing Personal: Chronicles of Chicago’s LGBTQ Community 1977–1997 (Firetrap Press, 2009), was a contributor to Gay Press, Gay Power (Prairie Avenue Publications, 2012) and wrote ten biographical essays for the coffee table history book Out and Proud in Chicago (Surrey/Agate, 2008). Keehnen was on the founding committee and executive board of The Legacy Project and is currently a contributing biographer for the LGBT history-education-arts program focused on pride, acceptance, and bringing proper recognition to the courageous lives and contributions in LGBT history. He was the author of the Starz books, a four-volume series of interviews with gay porn stars. He has had two queer monologues adapted for the stage and served as co-editor of the Windy City Times Pride Literary Supplement for several years, was a co-founder of the horror film website RacksAndRazors.com, and a featured poet in Wilde City’s 2013 collection Falling Awake. He lives in Chicago with his partner, Carl, and his two ridiculously spoiled dogs, Flannery and Fitzgerald. He was inducted into the Chicago Gay and Lesbian Hall of Fame in 2012.