What did he feel in those months leading up to his death? How did he feel about the industry that he’d dedicated his adult life to? How did he even begin doing porn? Was he aware of the risks? These questions arise all at once from that spring of intrigue surrounding tragedy-tragedy I can imagine as my own, had I been born 30 years earlier. He was a big star: in only four movies, a diva on set, a coke problem. I normally don’t care about this kind of hot, but the presumed tragedy surrounding his death pulls me in. Like, classic twink hot. Tadzio from Death in Venice hot. His picture appears on the right side of my screen. I click his name with that a priori sense of the tragic. This makes his death the youngest in this subcategory by a considerable margin. Kurt Marshall is the twelfth name under the “Pornographic Acting” subcategory. Even before I read his page, the list informs me that he was born in November 1965 and died in October 1988. So he was 22 when he died. I click every name, read their page, and return to the main list. I am scrolling through the “Pornographic Acting” subcategory on Wikipedia’s “List of HIV Positive People” page. My relationship with Marshall’s filmography begins down a Wikipedia hole. Before he died, he starred in four very successful gay porn films under the name Kurt Marshall. died on Octofrom kidney failure due to substance abuse and AIDS. Content warning: HIV/AIDS, pornography, sex, unprotected sex
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