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Legendary gay porn star Al Parker holds the #1 spot in Boyculture’s totally unbiased, science-driven list of the top (ahem) 250 Greatest Gay Porn Stars In The History Of Civilization. We only know many of these performers through their film oeuvre and photo layouts, but Al Parker always had a lot to say. In interviews, he seemed to enjoy recounting his sexual exploits as a teenager attending Woodstock, his win on the game show Name That Tune, working behind the scenes on the film Can’t Stop The Music, and running Surge studios with his partner Steve Taylor.

Featured below are three interviews conducted through the 1980’s. The first is from New Years Eve, 1979 and appeared in Skinflicks magazine. At the time, Parker was three years into his adult film career and at the top of his game. Steve Taylor is on hand to offer comments as well. The second interview appeared in the October, 1984 issue of Mandate. Interview #3 is from the November, 1988 issue of Manshots, two years after Taylor had died of AIDS complications.

“Some people meet me, and seeing I’m completely different from my screen image,
they may hate me, because I’m not what they want me to be. But I am what I am,
and I hope we can have a satisfying moment based on that.”

“… the day Can’t Stop The Music started shooting in New York was also
the day Inches opened here, and my face was on a poster
that was plastered on every lampost in the city. No one on the crew,
Nancy Walker or anyone, had any idea about the film or my being in it…”

“Steve and I are partners… lovers… everything… he’s just so wonderful.
We’re starting this business very slowly, making sure we do everything right.”

“My father… happened to see my face on the cover of a gay magazine…
needless to say he was quite surprised. He not only learned that I was a star,
but he learned at the same time that I’m gay. It didn’t bother him in the least.”

“I see myself as a cult hero – which means an insolvent movie star.
I think that everybody is responsible for his own orgasm – that is, his own destiny.”

*Al Parker with long-term life partner (and sometime costar) Steve Taylor. Together they founded Surge Studios.*

Al Parker was 40 years old when he died of complications from AIDS on August 17, 1992. A biography written by Roger Edmonson, Clone: The Life and Legacy of Al Parker Gay Superstar was published in 2000.

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Al Parker: In His Own Words

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