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I don’t know exactly how to describe this, they were the little text boxes that would appear when hovering the cursor over the pics you post here, and you used to use them pretty often at least for a while. Sometimes they would say the name of the guy(s) or film, other times they might just say ‘woof’ or, as with the (sexy) self-portrait you included in this collection, maybe ‘yours truly’ or the like. I’m guessing that it was extra work to include those and I don’t even know if they work the same way on mobile devices (as I only visit you on my old desktop computer) but I can say that it eliminated any uncertainty on these kinds of grab bag posts where you put pics of multiple guys in the same post. Just an observation.

That was on purpose for this post…. not to say I won’t add the “title tags” later. Some are easy to guess, others are from Bear Magazine – thanks for noticing!

I see you have added some of them now, thank you, that was exactly what I was trying to describe. And I guess I thought you had forsaken them now, maybe because they don’t get mentioned too often but they can be quite useful for those of us who might want to know the names of guys or magazines or film titles too. But if it’s kind of a quiz as I guess this post was, I can see why you didn’t want to give away the answers ahead of time.

If you got #9 from reddit good luck trying to ID him now, so many of the posts on the vintage gay pic subs are put there by people who neither know nor particularly care who the guys are (and it gets tiring telling them the answers when you can tell they don’t give a shit and are just reposting stuff they found who knows where). I agree with johnnyllama, I’d love to know who #5 is, with the beer-can thick cock, and the beard, and the beer-can thick cock, and the tit piercings … oh and did I mention the beer-can thick cock? lol Assuming johnny is right and it’s the same guy as was on the cover of Ambush (which looks like a match to me) I agree that the little bit I know about Brush Creek studio, it’s challenging to ID most of those guys (especially the one named wonders).

That second photo–I kept seeing that years ago in old websites and forums … I wonder who that woofy bear was?

Can I answer this BJ?

I believe that is Jack Radcliffe, the daddy bear of all bears. And what an amazing photo that is!

Am I right BJ?

Wow, wow, wow! Bears galore. Such beefy, hairy goodness. I love it all, but I must know who that last man is. His eyes are boring into my soul. And those arms! I feel like I know him, but I’ve forgotten.

Anybody know? BJ?

i downloaded this maybe 6 months ago during my brief dive into REDDIT in the “who is this” category, since I know I had seen him, and knew I could figure it out, and yet, saved on my desktop all this time, could not. I was thinking 1970’s falcon, maybe…… but don’t know

I am still trying to ID some of these random bears. Just can’t let it go!

#8 is obviously Michael Braun from an issue of Stroke magazine, as BJ has kindly added the title tags. But who is that blondie bear with him? And which issue of Stroke?

Sadly, my collection does not include many Stroke issues. Why is that? I do have more of that photo set though. Mr. Braun is adorably sexy in that sailor suit and the other guy starts out in jeans and a flannel shirt. They are frolicking on a fairly convincing public restroom set. But no ID on him yet.

So many questions. But I’m gonna’ figure it out…one day. Right now, I’m gonna’ try to sleep.

Curse you, BJ! (no, not really. JK JK JK)

BJ & Johnny, I don’t know if either of you know the issue number of the Stroke with that pic of Michael Braun or not? I just discovered a website that has Michael’s name as being in “Stroke 14/2” along with the following guys:

Rod Majors, Anthony Gallo, Joe Spears, Zak Spears, Marc Saber, Bull Stanton, Max Stone, Mark Steele, Bulldog, Steve Gibson, Bud, Wolff, Jed Smith, Blue Blake, Ryan Block, Mark West, Grant Larson, Rob Cryston, Al Michone, Peter Bishop, Chip Daniels, Johnny Rahm, Michael Braun, Chris Champion, Kevin Kramer, Cutter West;

Maybe it’s one of these guys who is in that pic with Michael? It’s all part of a long footnote at the bottom of the page, fairly interesting link about Stroke if you want to read it, link below:

https://oac.cdlib.org/findaid/ark:/13030/c8tx3kz0/entire_text/

Well done, Zephyr!

How did you even find those names in that massive archive document?! I looked at it myself and found it fascinating, but also hard to read. There’s so much there and yet it’s organized in a way that I didn’t find intuitive.

Looking at the names you listed, I was excited to see if maybe one of them was the mysterious blondie bear, but I noticed a problem: I checked, and most, if not all, of those models were active in the 1990s or later. I have to assume we are looking for an issue of Stroke which would have been published during the time that Michael Braun was active in gay porn (1983-1987 according to GEVI).

For a while I was right there with you though! Excellent idea! I think we’re still left with a mystery though.

Thanks for your effort! I appreciate it.

I did a web search (not google, I use ddg) for “michael braun” “stroke” and probably a word like gay or porn at the end, and it was one of only a few hits. I had to control+F on the page to make sure it had Michael’s name, I agree it was hard to make out the info with the formatting but it loanded down at the bottom in that footnote, then I separated out just the issue in question to snag that list of names.

Most of the other names I recognized did seem to be from the 90s, so I was left with two possible explanations. One, maybe they meant Michael Brawn with a W, who was himself more of a 90s star (I’ve had a pic of Brawn with a whistle around his neck that used to stump me to no end). Or two, by the 90s and 00s sometimes magazines would have a “flashback” section of by-then-already-vintage pics somewhere, which had me thinking they did mean Michael Braun, and the other guy’s name is in that list too. Could be?

I have a few issues of Stroke, I did love the glossy paper and even though they were more expensive, there were always boners and penetration shots, as opposed to Inches, Torso etc. which eventually had some of that kind of content but always tried to keep it more rated R than X. They always had a confusing number system though and some of them I never did find a date the magaziine was printed. Maybe this is a swing and a miss, maybe the clue might lead to the answer. I thought the Christopher who wrote his experience of working for the magazine was interesting, glad you did too.

Yes, the whistle! There were several of them with the whistle. And the background was kind of a wicker shade. I think that was part of series of promotional pics by Catalina. I don’t know which video they were associated with though, if any. Maybe Juice Bomb?

Regarding Stroke: You make excellent points. I had similar thoughts about it being a flashback feature or Michael Brawn. And you’re right that they only used Volume No/Issue No on their covers. The few Stroke issues I have don’t have a date. I wish there was more to go on.

I just want to know more about Stroke magazine now. Smutjunkies/GEA doesn’t cover it at all. Other than what you found, I’m not aware of a source with info about Stroke. I’m gonna’ keep looking though because you’ve piqued my interest!

Ooh ooh ooh! I found it…sort of. I found the cover of the issue with Michael Braun & blondie bear. Apparently, it was Stroke Vol3 No4 from 1984 (assuming this source was correct). I hope this link works:

https://wehavethesavings.com/magazine/images/st3-4.jpg

Still don’t have a name for Blondie Bear, but the search continues! If we don’t ever ID him, I’m just gonna’ keep calling him Blondie Bear!

Seems likely then that issue 14/2 mentioned on my earlier link meant to say Michael BraWn, which is in line with most of the other names. (BJ just did a post about Brawn not long ago, with the pic of him in a harness holding a pool cue). Great job finding the cover with sailor Braun which has to be a match with BJ’s pic, and is from much earlier as you assumed so it’s contemporary with when Braun was making films. In addition to not listing dates clearly, the couple of issues of Stroke I have don’t always name the guys they show either, so Blondie Bear works for me. Thanks johnny.

yes! seems i am late to the party – but yes, STROKE 3/4 – STROKE was notorious for never identifying models, and for re-using pics, photo-sessions, etc – its possible that both 3/4 and 14/2 are the same pics – I’d have to check my archives but scans of STROKE are often of poor quality, as the thickness of the magazine makes its hard to pay flat on a scanner. My scans are mostly from eBay, and a few issues that I sold off there.

URINAL LUST is the name of the (6 or 7 page) spread – gulp!

#9 – Pop Up: “cant figure out”. (sic)

(Honestly BJ, do I also have to correct your spelling?! It’s “can’t figure out”.) : /

Have no fear, my fellow queer! That’s why you have me! What would you do, without me! (Fuck humility!) : )

Oh, I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I’m so excited! I know, and you don’t! : )

I discovered this, strictly by accident! I was on GEVI, and looking at the credits of Roger (70s)!

Some of his loops were released by the Richard Moore Studio. I’m sure you’re familiar with that name; as you should be with the distributor, David Warner Company. You posted about that a while ago.

https://www.bjland.ws/wordpress/2017/07/09/david-warner/

But I’ll get back to that later. (How I love to create suspense!) First, I have to offer my opinion. : )

(I know what you’re thinking, “Jesus, can’t Obsessed just shut up, and give us the information!”) : (

It’s fascinating, how the description “bear”, has evolved. Back in the day, it was a mature gay man who was hairy, bearded, with a roly-poly physique. OxiClean pitchman, Billy Mays, epitomized this look!

Now, it seems to be any man, who’s hairy! Some actually considered the late porn star, Arpad Miklos; to be a “bear”, but I think he was too muscular! Joe Gage on his site listed Donnie Russo as a bear, even though Russo was smooth.

I’ve already listed my favorite bears, and muscle bears. My favorites are “fit-fat”. Their bodies seem molded, rather than sculpted; for example, Anthony Gallo, TANK, Blake Nolan, Bishop Angus, Jack Radcliffe, etc.

Some consider Ledermeister to be a “bear”, but I dispute that. I don’t think that Paul Barresi qualifies either. Both of them are too muscular. Which brings us to this last photo; I think he’s also too muscular, to be described as a bear. He’s also rather smooth – not hairy enough!

I know I’ve seen him before!

It may have been in Mandate magazine, December 1978 issue, page 46, as described in GEVI. : 0

He has a great, muscular body! I love his prominent forehead, and deep set eyes! His thick, head hair is nice too. He obviously has a lot of testosterone! I only wish he didn’t have a beard, so I can tell what his jaw-line looks like. He also looks rather tall – exciting!

In GEVI, he’s only listed as “Tom (rm)”:

https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/S/1/58111.html

He only has one credit. The name of his loop is “Construction Worker Gangbang aka Adam 103” released in 1978. Now get this, he only gets fucked – another butch bottom!

Click on the two picture icons on the far, top right, for more information. You’ll see the picture that BJ posted! : )

https://www.gayeroticvideoindex.com/L/5/11435.html

You’re welcome! : )

Boy, I wish I didn’t make this post, even more crowded! : /

Does a bear shit in the woods? Yes, but I first have to identify it! LOL!

Yours Truly,

Obsessed aka Goldilocks!

; )

i mean, blah blah blah – ah ha! yes, and this makes me wonder if that Construction Worker Gangbang didn’t wind up as a falcon loop – MARK certainly looks familiar, too. I won’t go into definitions of bears, very subjective, and yes, former muscle boys who put on weight then identify as “bears” but often won’t look at traditional bears … but thanks for the I.D., now on to finding the film loop!

#3 is Paul Barresi alleged lover of John Travolta who has several gay porn films to his credit.

I’m surprised I managed to find this post, eventually searching “stroke braun” led me to it, anyway … the other night I found another relatively new blog where the blogger is just mass-dumping thousands of scans all at once. It managed to suck me in because of how high quality most of the scans are, and that a lot of them are from those glossy mags from the 80s (I found at least three based on scenes from the film Getting It which is a personal fave of mine, including ones from the scene with the letters SKIP hanging on the wall of the bedroom while Chris Burns fucks himself with his trusty dildo on the floor of the closet, but I digress…)

He’s got a few dozen pages of Stroke 3-4 with most of the Michael Braun in a sailor outfit pics, wasn’t sure if you’d ever found more pics than the two posted above but I thought I’d leave you the link to check it out yourself, and if you too get sucked into his vortex and spend a lot of time scrolling through what he’s got I’m not responsible for that:

https://vintagegayforever.blogspot.com/2022/01/stroke-34.html

(there were also some other posts he had with many pics from Stroke magazines from the same era, fyi)

oh gosh – many many thoughts – but first – thanks for the link. First look, I already know where this person is getting his content – this particular magazine, notice there’s no front page? I actually downloaded all, sorted, checked the index, and it may seem like a complete magazine where someone left off or didn’t have cover, but this is pages 39-100 – short version, yes, it has the pages I was looking for (Urinal Lust, pages 60-71) – quite a photo-essay!

I won’t bore you all with my preference for a good porn blog – but just dumping every page, including ads and personals, from a partial file you found online? what’s that saying about monkeys and typewriters?

Yeah there’s no explanation about anything at that blog, I wouldn’t call it good in a substantive way but the sheer number of scans though had me saving a lot of pics as I scrolled through what he has. Not surprising that people are downloading massive files and then just spraying the earth with them on their own blogs, I can see good and bad to it since a lot of the time there will be some rarer or more obscure pics. You put things in context here and that’s indicative of your true interest in the guys and the porn and pics, not just in the volume of it all.

I wasn’t sure if you had ever found the Urinal Lust spread or not so I’m glad a few brain cells made me stop and say, wait, where was I talking about that with somebody? Then it was just a question of seeing if I could find this post where you posted the pics of Michael and the other guy (did you determine what his name was? If so I forget). Seeing those older Stroke magazines reminded me of that magazine and how it was raunchier and more diverse than a lot of the other fare, and how good it was in its early years.

I get what you’re saying but sometimes, those old ads and personals are as much fun to scroll through than the pics are, sort of like watching an old episode of a TV show on youtube that still has the commercials in it.

I think the last pic of “can’t figure it out” had a spread in Honcho called Hercules. I have to dig into my archives to see if I can find the scan

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