Close-Up: Interviews with the Performers of Gay Pornography (Editors Moustache, 2021).Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography (Editors Moustache, 2021).Tubstrip (Chelsea Station Editions, 2019).The Legend of the Ditto Twins (Bruno Gmünder Verlag, 2012).The Deep Throat Sex Scandal (2010) – director.Max's Millions (1985) – director, co-author with Raymond Wood.Tubstrip (1973) – director, playwright.Circle in the Water (1970) – director, adapter.Rondelay (1969) – book writer, lyricist.Never Say Dye (1964) – director, book writer, lyricist.He died on January 9, 2021, at the age of 85. He married his partner of forty years, attorney John Stellar, in November 2011, and lived in New York City. In 2021, Douglas (with co-editor Jeffrey Escoffier) published two massive books: "Directing Sex: Interviews with the Directors of Gay Pornography" (475 pages interviews with more than 30 directors, including William Huggins, Kristen Bjorn, Chi Chi LaRue,Steven Scarborough, Dirk Yates, John Rutherford, George Duroy, etc.) and "Close-Up: Interviews with the Performers of Gay Pornography" (285 pages, interviews with more than 60 performers including Peter Berlin, Scorpio, Leo Ford, Kevin Williams, Richard Locke, Ken Ryker, Jeff Palmer, etc.) These are all interviews Douglas conducted and originally ran in " Manshots" over the years. Chelsea Station Editions published his play, Tubstrip. His first novel, The Legend of the Ditto Twins was published by Bruno Gmünder Verlag of Berlin, Germany, in 2012. His collection of short stories, Mantalk, was published in 1991. Five of the actors who played leading roles in his productions have been named Best Actor: Tim Lowe (Fratrimony), Joey Stefano (More of a Man), Michael Brawn (Kiss-Off), Kurt Young (Flesh and Blood), and Dean Phoenix ( BuckleRoos).ĭouglas was also the creator and editor of Manshots magazine from 1988 to 2001. Between 19, he made on average one film per year, six of which were named Best Picture by industry organizations such as the Adult Video New Awards, Gay Video Guide Awards, and the Grabby Awards: More of a Man, Kiss-Off, Honorable Discharge, Flesh and Blood, Dream Team, and BuckleRoos. He did not make another film until 1989, when he was urged out of his self-imposed retirement by Rick Ford of All Worlds Video. In the early 1970s, he directed two adult films, The Back Row (starring Casey Donovan and George Payne) and Both Ways (starring Andrea True and Gerald Grant), then left the industry to focus on his career as a free-lance journalist and editor for such publications as The Advocate, Update, FirstHand, and Stallion. He also wrote the screenplay for Radley Metzger's film version of Score. Among the Broadway and Off-Broadway plays he wrote and/or directed are Rondelay, Circle in the Water, Score, Tubstrip, Max's Millions, and most recently, the New York and Los Angeles productions of The Deep Throat Sex Scandal. A native of Des Moines, Iowa, Douglas attended Drake University and did his graduate work at the Yale School of Drama.