GAVIN

HMBoys: Gavin - you're pretty unusual among the boys who've modelled for HMBoys… Tell us how…

Gavin: Well, the truth is that I'm not a professional - or even an amateur - model. I'm just someone who's been a member of HMBoys for about a year now.

HMBoys: So how come you're suddenly here this week in glorious living Nudie-color?

Gavin: I guess if I were out there reading this - which, of course, I will be doing - I'd probably think it must be one of two things. Either the guy's just a bit short of money - which, let me assure you, I'm not - or else he must be some kind of weirdo or exhibitionist who gets off on people looking at him.

HMBoys: And which of the explanations is right?

Gavin: Neither of them!

HMBoys: So why did you ask us to shoot your pics and put them up on the site, then?

Gavin: Well, even though I want everyone to enjoy the pictures and get off on them, there's really a more serious point behind them. In your first question you said I was pretty unusual among the boys who've modelled for HMBoys - right?

HMBoys: Yeah…?

Gavin: Well, there's another way in which I'm even more unusual… Like I said, I've been an HMBoys.com member for about a year. And one of the big things that strikes me about the site is the lack of black boys. OK, there are a few. But they're mainly Caribbean boys as far as I can tell and they give me the impression that they're "money boys". I don't know why it is but ordinary, run-of-the-mill black boys-next-next-door just don't seem to turn up on sites like this one…

HMBoys: Believe us, Gavin… It's not that we don't try. But you're right. We just don't get black boys coming forward for the work. And, like you say, when we do get photographs of black boys they've often come from professional photographers who've gone out to shoot in the Caribbean because the boys there expect less money!

Gavin: So I was right! Anyway, the point is that I want to see more black boys like me coming forward. I'm gay and I've got no hang-ups about it. And I happen to like black boys in bed too, so I'm determined to do my best to encourage more of them to come forward and show off what they've got! I know that there are specialist gay magazines and websites but us black people shouldn't be confined to a publishing ghetto. There's more and more racial integration in every other area of life, so how come it's so… black-and-white, I guess!… in gay porn?...Continua

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