Michael Stabile

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Michael Stabile III (1974) is an American journalist and documentary filmmaker best known for his work in and about the sex industry. He is the director of Seed Money , a documentary about pioneering gay porn producer Chuck Holmes, of Falcon Studios. Stabile's written work on sex and sexuality has appeared in Playboy , The Daily Beast , BuzzFeed , and New York Times , among others.

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Stabile serves at the Director of Public Affairs for the Free Speech Coalition [1] , the national trade organization for the adult industry, and has been featured in the publications including San Francisco Chronicle , Washington Post , Los Angeles Times , Rolling Stone and the Huffington Post speaking on issues related to the industry. [2] [3]

Stabile is the owner and founder of Polari Media, a media strategies firm based in Los Angeles.

Early career

Stabile began his career as the editor of San Francisco Metropolitan, and alt-weekly based in the Bay Area. He subsequently wrote or edited for numerous Bay Area publications, including San Francisco Bay Guardian, The Bold Italic and Gay.com.

Adult career

In 2003, he became interested in the intersection of adult content and LGBTQ culture. He took over as editor of Gay Porn Blog and the producer of The Tim and Roma Show , [4] a web-based talk show about the gay adult industry.

In 2004, he and Jack Shamama co-created [5] the gay pornographic soap opera Wet Palms for which they won a GayVN Award for Best Screenplay. He has also written several other GayVN-nominated movies including Spokes III, Cross Country, and Master of the House. [6] Two of the films were included in "Top 10 Gay Porn Movies of the Decade" by Gawker Media's Fleshbot [7] with credit given to the writing team of Stabile and Shamama.

In 2008, Stabile launched gay news site TheSword.com. [8] He was named "an arbiter of taste for gay porn" by the Village Voice . [9]

Film Work

Stabile's documentary short, Smut Capital of America premiered at the 2011 Tribeca Film Festival on April 24, 2011. [10]

In 2015, his documentary Seed Money played over 50 festivals across the world and was acquired for distribution by Breaking Glass Pictures. [11]

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References

  1. ↑ "Staff". FreeSpeechCoalition.com.
  2. ↑ Wilkey, Robin (July 11, 2011). "YBCA Smut Capital of America Premiere". Huffington Post. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  3. ↑ Dickson, EJ (May 10, 2019). "Is Porn Good or Bad for You". Rolling Stone. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
  4. ↑ Van Iquity, Dana (May 10, 2006). "A Sexy Yet Sappy Soap". San Francisco Bay Times. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  5. ↑ Huston, Johnny (September 27, 2011). "Dirty Soap". San Francisco Bay Guardian. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  6. ↑ Master of the House at IMDb OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
  7. ↑ O'Brien, Brian (May 1, 2009). "Top 10 Gay Porn Movies of the Decade". Fleshbot.
  8. ↑ Rice, G. (September 12, 2008). "Gay Culture Finds A New Home". Adult Video News. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  9. ↑ Barmann, Jay (December 20, 2005). "Video Killed the Gay Porn Star". Village Voice. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  10. ↑ Wagner, David (July 12, 2011). "Looking Back on the Golden Era of SF Porn". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved January 10, 2013.
  11. ↑ Marinucci, Carla (June 20, 2015). "Documentary Profiles Democratic Pornographer and Powerhouse". San Francisco Chronicle. Retrieved July 23, 2019.
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