Porn Legend Ryan Idol Spends Yet Another Birthday Behind Bars

Posted August 12, 2015 7:55 AM by with 4 comments

The  term “Porn Star” gets thrown around a lot. All someone has to do is film one scene, and de facto you can start bragging to your friends that you’re officially a “porn star”. The list of legitimate gay porn icons or legends, however, is short: if you were to ask any gay porn fan who belonged on such a list, I would be willing to wager that most would include Ryan Idol 

This week, Idol — aka Marc Anthony Donais — turned 51 years old. Even if your birthday suit is an orange jumpsuit emblazoned with the word “Corrections,” I didn’t want you to think we totally forgot. Unless you are a devotee of vintage gay porn – or are a gay man of “a certain age”, you might only know the name Ryan Idol from some rather tragic headlines of late and forgot that from 1991-1996, he was one of the original gay porn megastars along the likes of Jeff Stryker and Joey Stefano.

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Ryan Idol had the hair, the looks, the glutes, and the dick. He made the G-string de rigueur in 1990’s. Despite starring in iconic titles like “Idol Eyes” (1990) and “Idol Country” (1994), Ryan remained a wanton heterosexual. For better (or more likely for worse), our birthday boy could arguably considered the Godfather of Gay For Pay as we know it today. Sadly, in reality and hindsight, even that proved to be one of his lesser crimes.

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In 1996, Idol was in “Idol in the Sky” and two years later, he literally fell from the sky when he jumped out of his NYC apartment window because, “The drugs and alcohol took over.” Five years later, apparently God took over and told him to resurrect his porn career – but alas, there was no actual second coming. Five years after that, he got entangled in a fraud scandal with the homophobic mayor of Birmingham, Alabama Larry Langford. Then, things literally went into the crapper.

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In September of 2009, according to Ryan’s ex-girlfriend, she allegedly broke up with him because our wanton heterosexual was bisexual and moved out of their West Sacramento condo. Apparently, the Idol didn’t take rejection well, went to her new place and purportedly said, “I came over here to kill you.” Ryan said he thought she had a knife and claimed his response was in self-defense. That response was trying to bash her head in with the lid of a toilet tank. He was charged with attempted murder. Two years later, a judge said, “no” to a new trial and, “yes” to a twelve year sentence.

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Since it’s too late to bake him a cake with a file in it, if you can’t wait nine more years for his release, you can console yourself by checking out these three Ryan Idol vintage classics playing on NakedSword:
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A Trifecta of Titles from When Ryan Was Still an Idol:
The Road Home from Hot House
The Best of All II from Huge Video
Score 10 from Matt Sterling

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4 responses to Porn Legend Ryan Idol Spends Yet Another Birthday Behind Bars

  1. LaToya Caprice August 15th, 2015 at 2:17 AM

    Thank you for this post. I am one of those ladies who came of age during this time and him fucking Joey Stefano in Idol Eyes remains a top go-to vid to this day…….

    But wasn’t there some issue with Idol getting rimmed during a scene by a former Chicago weatherman turned gay porn star Steve Marks and then storming off a set because it was too “gay”?

    This would have been in like ’95 or ’96…..

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  2. Hman August 19th, 2015 at 12:10 PM

    Hi LaToya! Thanks so much for your comment – I came of age at the same time (which makes us both almost 30) and likewise, a longtime fan of Ryan’s. The movie with Steve Marks is “Idol Country” from ’94/95 as you mentioned. From what I have been able to tell, Ryan was in full “prima-donna” mode during the filming and Steve, making gay porn debut, also had the honor of being the first man to rim Ryan on camera, and Steve’s enthusiasm – at the task and the ass – totally nu-nerved our boy.

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  3. Will August 20th, 2015 at 10:19 AM

    “Idol Eyes” was the first porn tape I bought, although it was because Matt Gunther was it.

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  4. KeithCaps August 24th, 2015 at 5:42 AM

    There some one ot there who know where I can find “Letters from the heart” (his only str8 film ) & “Ryan Idol : a very personal view ” ?? Theres so many years searching for ..& don’t have luck yet !!!

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