Gavin Geoffrey Dillard
(? - living) U.S.A.
Artist, poet, songwriter, ex-porn-star
Dillard is a gay poet, artist, author, editor, songwriter, photographer, fashion model, theatre actor, and former porn star. Dillard has published seven volumes of poetry, the most recent being Yellow Snow.
He has also edited two volumes of gay poetry, Return of the Male Muse, with Ian Young, and the astonishing pansexual collection Between the Cracks: The Daedalus Anthology of Kinky Verse (1997), by himself.
Dillard's other published work includes Sacred Passion, "an exquisitely photographed celebration of male love in its purest forms." In the Flesh, his tell-all memoir of the porn business, was published in late 1997.
Gavin Geoffrey Dillard has been at the forefront of the gay cultural scene for over two decades. As a poet, his first two volumes of verse were published by Ian Young's Canadian imprint, Catalyst, when he was yet in high school. Five volumes have been published since. Gavin is currently compiling the definitive anthology of homosexual verse for an autumn, 1998, release on Barricade Books: A Day for a Lay - A Century of Gay Poetry.
As Gavin Geoffrey, he became immediately famous in the porn world of the late seventies with his starring role in Steve Scott's Track Meet - at that time, the largest budgeted gay film ever produced. Some fifteen years later Gavin accidentally put in a surprise guest appearance in the flick Stryker Force. He has been featured in Playgirl, Advocate Men, and numerous publications.
Dillard is known for his widely published photography, his paintings, songs that have been written with and recorded by such stars as Peter Allen, Sam Harris and Donna Summer, and most recently for his torrid
Hollywood memoir, killed a few years ago at Dutton/Penguin by lawyers representing David Geffen, Dolly Parton and Barry Diller - now sweeping bookstores thanks to Lyle Stuart's ballsy Barricade Books.
Gavin, whom the LA Times once pegged as The Naked Poet for his regular in-the-buff readings around that town, now lives on the coast of Northern California with a mélange of cats, chickens and orchids. Writing lyrics for such diverse entities as Disney and several befamed classical composers, the poet divides his time carefully between his garden meditations and a very busy interview and lecture schedule. Dillard currently lives on Maui and raises orchids.
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