Bobby Blake (born Edgar Gaines in 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a retired African American pornographic actor best known as a dominant top in gay adult films.
Bobby Blake grew up in Tennessee. He went to Los Angeles in the 1980s and worked as an erotic dancer. On the advice of a friend, he visited a gay sex club owned by porn actor Paul Hanson. Impressed with Blake's performance, Hanson recommended him to adult film producers who cast him in his...
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Bobby Blake (born Edgar Gaines in 1958 in Memphis, Tennessee) is a retired African American pornographic actor best known as a dominant top in gay adult films.
Bobby Blake grew up in Tennessee. He went to Los Angeles in the 1980s and worked as an erotic dancer. On the advice of a friend, he visited a gay sex club owned by porn actor Paul Hanson. Impressed with Blake's performance, Hanson recommended him to adult film producers who cast him in his first film, Ebony Knights.
Blake appeared in over 100 films playing aggressive and dominant top roles. He retired from adult films in 2000 and became an ordained Christian minister.
In 2002, Blake was paid to appear at a government funded AIDS awareness meeting in St. Louis, Missouri where he stripped. Video of the appearance was distributed to the local news media. The organization that sponsored the meeting lost its government funding and two of its leaders were fired after the incident.
Blake now criticizes the adult film industry as...
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