April with Bryan Thomas

If he was just bending the other way this shot would be ideal.

Die Young, Stay Pretty: Jon Eric Hexum

Jon Eric Hexum was an early eighties leading man (or "hunk") whose managers had the wisdom to have him photographed extensively while shirtless. Classically handsome in a very soap opera way, he may have had great things ahead of him.
I remember him from two eighties classics. The first was "The Making of a Male Model" a made-for-TV movie in which Joan Collins picks him out, shakes him up and turns him around....and turns him into someone new (in the immortal words of Human League). I don't remember what happens in that one but I'm sure gives up his glamourous life to go back to Iowa and marry Alice or some shit.
The second was the thin premised but amazing "Cover Up", a series in which he and Cover Girl Jennifer O'Neil infiltrated foreign governments masquerading as models when the were in fact espionage-ing. Believe it or not, this was the premise of EVERY episode. Sadly, this series ended with his death.
On the set there was a bizarre accident involving him shooting himself with a blank bullet, which in fact killed him.
I'm sure if given the choice he would rather be alive and un-hot today, but he sure is frozen in time as a smoking hot guy.
Rest in peace Jon.

Gianfranco and Sonny Markham

Scene is from "Trying it on for Size"

Porn from the archives: Jon Galt and Jake Deckard

Gonna be out of town so the next few posts will be short and sweet

Jon fucks Jake

Random porn guy, Rich Koch

There were literally years of my life where the cop in the first series of pictures was an object of lust, never knowing he was one and the same with the "unmasked" man in the latter images. I obviously thought that both were hot body wise, but had saved the images in different porn folders (yes, I'm that obsessive), It wasn't until Men Magazine published a 20 Year retrospective that I hooked up the cop with the relatively well known Colt model Rich Koch.

His appearance in the "Hairy Chested Men" deserves honorable mention. I remember seeing this calendar in a porn store near Port Authority when I wasn't quite comfortable buying gay porn yet....but I got over it quickfast because up till that point I had not realized there was a sub-market of porn that pandered directly to me. Oh, innocence. I miss the shock of finding something hotter than I thought possible. I take my woodies granted now, but I guess it's the trade off for being a well adjusted gay man.