Rod Barry

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Rod Barry
Born5 December 1973
upstate New York
Height5 ft 10 in (178 cm)
Website www.rodbarryworld.blogspot.com

Rod Barry (born 5 December 1973; also Rob deBaer, Rod Berry, Rod) [1] is a former pornographic actor and director from the United States who has been credited in over 150 pornographic films and internet-based shows since entering the industry in 1996. [2] Most of Barry's appearances have been in the gay pornography genre, but he has appeared in bisexual, transsexual and heterosexual videos. [1] In 2008, he was inducted into the gay pornography industry's Hall of Fame. [1]

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Career

Barry entered the industry in 1996, being discovered by Dirk Yates, [1] and his first film was The Few, The Proud, The Naked #8. [1] Barry won a Grabby Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1998, [1] for his performance in A Lesson Learned, and the Best Supporting Actor award at the GayVN Awards for White Trash. [3] He has worked for many leading directors, including Chi Chi LaRue, John Rutherford, Wash West, Steven Scarborough, Michael Zen, Mike Donner, and Doug Jeffries. [1] In 2005, he directed his first gay adult video, Down The Drain, for All Worlds Video, which incorporated a "making of" section that was considered important in the development of the genre. [4] Barry went on to direct a series called Argentinean Auditions for the studio. [5] [ better source needed ]

Barry was inducted into the GayVN Hall of Fame at the 10th annual award ceremony in February 2008. [1] [3] In 2008, he launched RodBarryWorld.com, a video-on-demand website. [6]

Personal life

After completing one year in college, Barry served in the United States Marine Corps in 1994, then entered the pornographic industry. [1] [7]

Barry's sexual identity has been the topic of debate. [1] In a 1998 interview with director Jerry Douglas, Barry said: "I wouldn't say, heterosexual. I'd say sexual. Sexual is you like an orgasm and you don't care how you get it". [8] Barry was noted as a "famous example" of a "gay-for-pay" performer, [9] and Jeffrey Escoffier records his decision to perform full gay scenes was "based solely on financial compensation". [1] [9]

In 2009, Barry wrote about his recovery from alcohol abuse. [6]

Awards and nominations

See also

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References

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  2. ↑ Rod Barry at the Internet Adult Film Database
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  4. ↑ Ahmet Atay; Sandra L. Pensoneau-Conway (October 2019). Queer Communication Pedagogy. Routledge. ISBN   978-1138066441.
  5. ↑ "rod barry - porn director - filmography". internet adult film database. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
  6. 1 2 JC Adams (2008-08-12). "It's Rod Barry's World…". Gay Porn Times. Archived from the original on 2008-08-16. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
  7. ↑ "Rod Barry World Blog: How I Became a Porn Star". Rodbarryworld. 2009-03-02. Retrieved 2010-02-22.
  8. ↑ Douglas, Jerry (June 1998). "Interview: Ron Barry". Manshots . p. 73.
  9. 1 2 Tan Hoang Nguyen (September 2014). A View from the Bottom: Asian American Masculinity and Sexual Representation. Duke University Press. pp. 68–69. ISBN   978-0822356844.
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