Bobby Blake

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Bobby Blake (stage name, actually: Edgar Gaines ; born August 11, 1957 in Memphis , Tennessee ) is an African-American Baptist pastor and former actor in homosexual porn films . Blake retired from the porn business in 2001.

Life

Childhood and youth

Edgar Gaines grew up as the son of an emotionally unstable mother for the first ten years in a children's home. His mother took him back when he was ten years old, but the stay was short-lived. His mother suffered a nervous breakdown and his brother was shot in the head during this time. He then grew up in a loving foster family. In his youth he struggled with his coming out , but this was accepted and supported by his new family. Already at the age of 14, after sneaking into an adult bookstore, he became interested in gay pornography and dreamed of becoming a porn actor.

Porn career

After he came of age, Gaines moved to Los Angeles. He gave himself the pseudonym Bobby Blake when he, like many of his colleagues as Porndarsteller, his career as a stripper and Table Dancer began. He danced in front of both male and female audiences. After a few years as a dancer, he was also discovered as a porn actor. His first film was Ebony Knights (1996). He also saw Bobby Blake as a kind of fictional character who lived out the cliché of African hypersexuality in connection with gay hyper masculinity. In his films he often played a kind of savage or the cliché of the "bad niggers". Above all, his muscular physique helped him, which set him apart from other gay black actors and quickly made him a star in the porn industry.

In his only three-year career as an actor in over 100 films. He dated Flex-Deon Blake for a long time and was also the one who brokered Flex-Deon to producer Edward James. He also passed his artist surname on to him. As a result, there was speculation that the two were married, but this was not true. However, there was also some kind of competition between the two for the leadership position in porn, as both were known as very muscular performers and played similar roles.

In 2001, at the height of his career, he decided to end his career as a porn actor.

Autobiography: My Life in Porn

He wrote his life story in the biography My Life in Porn . Bobby Blake worked with the British writer John R. Gordon . In his biography he speaks at length about his youth and experiences in the porn industry. At the end he describes himself in biblical terms as the “prodigal son” ( parable of the prodigal son ) who had to leave his church and his home. However, he emphasizes that he never turned his back on the Church during this time. Blake has no remorse about his life, but interprets his life as part of God's plan.

Pastoral service

Blake has pastored the Tabernacle Baptist Church in Atlanta since 2000 .

Controversy

The film Niggas' Revenge with him in the lead has sparked scientific controversy as the portrayal of numerous transgressions such as incest , rape , racist clichés and violence are part of the film. In addition, condoms are not used in the film, although it was made at the height of the AIDS virus, when many gay porn studios made it mandatory to use condoms. The film is a so-called interracial film with BDSM elements, but it is kept in the style of a revenge film. In the film, Blake and his partner Flex-Deon Blake mistreated three racist skinheads who were previously racist. Sex practices such as fisting , urophilia and bondage are used. In particular, Tim Dean, a professor at the University at Buffalo, covers the film in detail in his book Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking . Blake later referred to the film as his most extreme film and his way of getting out of the porn business.

In contrast, the movie Bam (1997) earned him a huge outcry within the black gay community for treating a white actor tenderly in the movie. According to his own statement, he was accused of the following: “'You nigger-fuck the black ones. (...) And you make love to the white ones. '”In fact, he was in a relationship with the actor back then and he took it for granted that he didn't care about skin color when making love. This was then largely accepted.

In 2002 Blake appeared at a Blacks Assisting Blacks Against AIDS (BABAA) meeting in St. Louis as an advocate for safe sex , but only dressed in a towel and boots. The appearance was financed with tax money. This turned into a minor scandal and two board members of the organization had to resign.

Private life

Blake later describes himself as bisexual . He has also appeared in some films with bisexual content. He also rejects homosexual marriage, although this is to be understood more as a rejection of the "white" gay movement in which he does not see himself as a black man with African roots and which would ignore the interests of African Americans .

Works

Filmography (selection)

  • 1996: Ebony Knights
  • 1997: Black Nubian Fantasies
  • 1997: Goldie Locks and the 3 Bi Bears
  • 1998: Bi Bi Black
  • 1998: Black Bi Demand
  • 1999: Get Hooked on This
  • 1999: Black Ballers
  • 1999: Black Ballers 2: Foul Play
  • 1999: Black Power
  • 2000: Black Workout 10
  • 2000: Bobby's Big Stick
  • 2000: The Underboss
  • 2001: Niggas' Revenge
  • 2001: Black Sex Party # 3
  • 2001: Black Sex Party # 4
  • 2002: Mt. Fuckmore

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Moto: Bananation: Bobby Blake - Exclusive Interview. In: Bananation. November 27, 2007, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g Rowden, Terry. "The '' Top '' of the Heap: Race, Manhood, and Legitimation in My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story ." Black Camera , vol. 2, no. 2, 2011, pp. 80-99. JSTOR , www.jstor.org/stable/10.2979/blackcamera.2.2.80. Accessed: 29 Aug 2020.
  3. ^ A b Jesus, Porn and Gay Marriage: The Life of Rev. Bobby Blake. In: Gaywired.com. December 11, 2008, accessed August 29, 2020 .
  4. ^ Bobby Blake in the Internet Adult Film Database . December 14, 2007.
  5. ↑ See Owen Keehnen: More Starz , 90-2, esp. 90.
  6. ↑ Bobby Blake with John R. Gordon: My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story. Philadelphia: Running Press 2008.
  7. ↑ Bobby Blake: My Life in Porn (biography). In: John R. Gordon. Retrieved on August 29, 2020 .
  8. ↑ Luke 15 : 11-32  LUT
  9. ↑ "had to leave [his] church and the place of [his] birth and go out there in the far country." Blake: 9.
  10. ^ "In all the years I was working in the adult entertainment business, I never turned my back on God or the Bible teachings I had grown up with."
  11. ↑ "Now that it's over, I can accept that journey was all part of God's plan for me." Blake: 277.
  12. ↑ TBC: TBC elders and ministers , tbcatlanta.net, USA February 7, 2018.
  13. ↑ The representation of interracial sex, rape, violence, and incest (between Chris Blake and Bobby Blake) is enhanced by what Dean calls Flex-Deon Blake's "phallicized" appearance. They "conjure the transgressive charge of unprotected anal sex among gay men." Tim Dean: Unlimited Intimacy: Reflections on the Subculture of Barebacking. Chicago and London: University of Chicago Press 2009: p. 157.
  14. ↑ Ariane Cruz: The Color of Kink: Black Women, BDSM, and Pornography . NYU Press, 2016, ISBN 978-1-4798-2746-6 , pp. 80 f . ( google.com [accessed August 29, 2020]).
  15. ↑ a b Terry Rowden: The `` Top '' of the Heap: Race, Manhood, and Legitimation in My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story. "2011, p. 92
  16. ↑ AIDS group leaders fired over porn flap ( Memento from June 28, 2004 in the Internet Archive )
  17. ^ Here Publishing: The Advocate . Here Publishing, December 10, 2002, p. 14 ( google.de [accessed on August 29, 2020]).
  18. ↑ "known for being a gay porn star, I define myself as bisexual ... In fact I have dated women", although most of his serious romantic relationships have been with men. Bobby Blake: My Life in Porn: The Bobby Blake Story . Running Press Book Publishers, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 2003, ISBN 9780786721504 , p. 57.

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personal data
SURNAME Blake, Bobby
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Edgar Gaines (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION American porn actor and Baptist pastor
DATE OF BIRTH August 11, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Memphis , Tennessee