Iconic Gay Porn Star Said Superman Was His Lover!

Published on July 22, 2010 by QueenGossip   ·   2 Comments

Iconic gay porn star Casey Donovan (real name: Cal Culver, photo: left) told in an interview before he died in 1987 that he had a sexual relationship with superman star Christopher Reeve.

The interview of past has surfaced and now included in new book named,  Hollywood Babylon Strikes Again.

Donovan, who is now dead, told the unnamed interviewer he met Reeve when both were auditioning for the same Broadway role in the mid-1970s. In the interview, the Donovan says,

“Christopher was a great lover and I think I liberated him sexually. I didn’t think he was gay but he seemed willing to try anything once. He was curious.“

In the book extract, Donovan calls Reeve “the man of my dreams” and reveals the two men had a passionate affair that lasted for two months – until the future Superman learned his partner was a gay porn star.

Reeve died of heart failure in 2004, almost a decade after he became wheelchair bound.

Cal Culver first appeared as Casey Donovan in Boys in the Sand, directed by Wakefield Poole, in 1972. The film was an instant success, with even big name mainstream celebrities going to the premiere. Today the film is considered one of the great classics of gay erotic cinema, although stricter obscenity guidelines in some states forced a change of the title to Men in the Sand. Despite the success and celebrity the film gained for him, Cal/Casey soon realized that the only real doors it opened for him professionally was as a star of still more gay erotic films. These included The Back Row, with George Payne, LA Tool & Die, with Bob Blount and Richard Locke, The Other Side of Aspen, with Al Parker and Dick Fisk, Boys in the Sand II, and Inevitable Love, with Jon King and Jamie Wingo.  He wrote an advice column, Ask Casey, for the Stallion magazine beginning in 1982.

Outside his adult film career, Casey had a successful off-Broadway run in the play Tubstrip, written and directed by Jerry Douglas and was involved in a close relationship with former film and television star and author Tom Tryon. He also tried, unsuccessfully, to run a bed and breakfast, Casa Donovan, in Key West.

By 1985, at age 43, Casey’s health had begun to deteriorate, as he had contracted HIV. He worked with many HIV/AIDS charities, counseled his fans to practice safe sex and get tested for HIV. He performed in a safe sex film for the Gay Men’s Health Crisis, although he himself lived in denial that he had the syndrome, even as his health got worse. Cal Culver, died from an AIDS-related pulmonary infection in Inverness, Florida on 10 August 1987. A biography of Cal Culver’s life, Boy in the Sand: Casey Donovan, All-American Sex Star, by Roger Edmonson, was published in 1998.

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