Johnny Murdoc

East Village Boys posted an interesting interview between two giants of the homo art porn scene, Bruce LaBruce and Slava Mogutin. I’ve written about both of them many times on the blog before (LaBruce posts here, Mogutin posts here), and I continue to be challenged, inspired, and aroused by both their work (and in Mogutin’s case, honestly, by him.)

The interview covers everything from Mogutin’s exile from Russia to his unreleased porn film, Food Chain, as well as his art-stunt activist marriage to Robert Filippini in 1994.

For us it wasn’t so much a political demonstration as an art performance and we could never imagine that it would attract a mob scene with reporters from all the main Russian and Western newspapers. We made headlines around the world and were hailed as Russia’s gay rights pioneers, which made us heroes in the West and a sore in the eyes of the Russian authorities.

(My father) used to say to his drunken buddies: “I have a beautiful but stupid daughter and an ugly but smart son!” So I grew up thinking that I was hideously ugly. It’s not until later that I started getting attention from gay men and became comfortable with my own body and appearance. One of the reasons that I did porn and posed nude was to prove to myself (and my father) that I wasn’t that ugly!

Photos from ‘Food Chain’ will be part of Mogutin’s upcoming show at Envoy Gallery.

(via East Village Boys)