An Open Letter to The Gay XXX Business

An Open Letter to The Gay XXX Business



When did then Truth Die

CC Paul Baressi, Troy Prickett, Bill Rivers, Chris Steele, Steve Shays et.al


It has been over a year since I retired, and though it is where my heart still resides, I write today with a combination of anger and bewilderment at the way the industry I love allows a cancer in it’s midst to lie, and terrorize some of the most vulnerable members in it. The Cancer to which I refer is the internet terrorist known to most as Damon Kruezer who in reality is a vile man named Kent Barclay.
We all know who and what he is, and for the most part he has existed under the radar since the late 90’s when he terrorized people from places like Atkol and RAD forums. Rad closed it’s forums because of him, Atkol banned him and even mention of his name, as have most forums this insane vile man.
For years I ignored him, I told my models to ignore him, which was a mistake. It was not until last year that I came to fully realize the danger this man was, he was not merely a colorful gadfly, but rather a real danger to our community that could no longer be given any quarter. I know if I ramble on too long here no one will read this so I will be as brief as I can.
Five years after the fact, I found out the answer to something that was the cause of a devastating personal time that occurred in my life in 2002. I had just finished shooting a video for Delta Productions called a Young Man’s World when I received a phone call from my landlord in Huntington Beach he wanted to see me right away. I met with him and he told me he had been informed that I was running a gay porn and escort business out of my apartment( I was not I was working in LA at Delta and never has anything to do with any escort business) and that I could leave in 30 days or he would evict me. I lost my home. I did not know until 5 years later it was Kent Barclay that had called my landlord after having infiltrated my company through my assistant Rich Sternberg with promises of I will make you a director type lies. Mind you I had never had any interaction with Kent Barclay yet he went after my home. His reason for doing this was to have the landlord turn the apartment over to him and he could move to California and start Damon Pictures. Well I lost my home and the landlord told him to take a hike. That is what I got for ignoring him.
From the moment I found out, I vowed to stop him from doing damage to anyone else ands in that process took a good look at just how vile this liar can be, a few (of hundreds) of examples.

While my dear friend Jerry Douglas was shooting Buckleroos, Damon wrote a column saying that Jerry was so desperate for work that he agreed to work for nothing, and even paid his own airfare to California and his own lodging. He then went on to say what a disaster the production was and how miscast Zak Spears was and how bad his performance was. No one said a word to defend Jerry and to this day that column sits on his desk.
His history of harassing models like Joey Hart, Noah Walker, Court Logan, Matt Rush, Christian Owen, Mark Dalton. Cody Cash, Brent Corrigan, and many others is replete with stories of a man infiltrating the most private parts of their lives and terrorizing them. Video’s sent to parents and colleges, fake escort sites set up without their permission. He is constantly Interfering in the personal relationships of people. No one says a word.
The problem is simple the man is a fraud and predator. He uses false pictures of himself and a fictional lover to lure young models into his web of lies to intrude on their personal lives and infuse them with his own sexual revulsions. He lies to young models, lures them in and then terrorizes them, the latest being a model named Angel Skye and Brad Star.
This creature’s behavior took an ominous turn with the murder of Cobra owner Bryan Kocis. This is when the lying kicked into high gear. He invented a fake private detective he claims is licensed in 3 states (no such detective exists) to plant false information in the murder case all designed to advance the name of Damon. He keeps presenting forged emails from Kocis (all of which say how wonderful Damon is) one 2 weeks ago that discussed a model named Kyros, the problem was that model had not chosen the name Kyros until after Kocis died.
More recently when Brad Renfro died, he was Damon’s best friend who often told Damon how wonderful he was and how much he respected his writing. Today he has a story about his 5 year friendship with Heath Ledger whom he met because they both live on the same block in Manhattan. The story is replete with references to Ledgers drug use questionable sexuality, and of course his admiration for Damon. Now anyone who follows the news knows that Heath ledger moved into his SOHO apartment 6 months ago not 5 years ago. Damon at that time was living illegally in senior citizens housing with his 81 YO mother because he had no other place to stay, and she at 83 years old was evicted from her home of 17 years because he would not leave. He was not hob-nobbing with Heath Ledger in 2004, he was terrorizing the Gay XXX industry from his mother’s small 1 bedroom apartment where she slept on the couch so he could have the bedroom and use his computer at night.
Tell me Mr. Barresi when Damon interviewed you last week and you elegantly discussed how Heath Ledger’s family was reeling under the grief of his death did Damon mention that he had a close relationship with him, that Heath admired him, and that Heath admitted to Damon and his fictional lover Marc that he used too many drugs and was tormented by his questionable sexuality? Tell me Mr. Barresi is it ok for Damon so stand on the dead body of Heath Ledger, lie, and tell the world that Heath Ledger was a friend who confided in him and praised him? Is that what the Ledger family needs now? Is that lie OK?
Tell me Mr. Barressi you are a licensed private detective is it alright for Damon to create a fake Private detective Zenoble, to try and plant false information in the Bryan Kocis case to promote the name of Damon? Is that lie ok?
When I saw two weeks ago the Falcon banner next to an attack on me saying that Damon had to rescue Noah Walker and Shane Stone from me I asked Troy Prickett if it was Falcon’s policy to allow their logo to be used as credibility to lie about me he said “I had nothing to do with it”. I emailed back and said that was not what I asked, and he said “This is YOUR drama, YOUR problem – not mine.”.

Tell me Troy Prickett when Damon accused your company President of forcing people to supply drugs to him for sexual purposes was that lie ok? Were any of the dozens of lies he has told about Falcon OK?

Tell me Chris Steele when he accused your fellow director Chad Donovan of providing drugs to Todd Montomgery was that lie OK?

To everyone when he accused a company president of murder when a model died of a drug over dose was that lie OK?

When he accused Doug Lawrence of taking a $50,000 bribe to give last years awards to Michael Lucas was that lie ok?

When he told the sister of accused murderer Harlow Cudara that he had raised $5,000 and had wired it to her and it never showed up was that lie OK?

When he forges emails from a dead man are those lies ok?

I could go on for days with the lies, but more to the point is this: This man has terrorized the Gay XXX business for ten years. The problem is not that he writes about things people don’t want written about. The problem is that he lies. He gets away with it because WE let him get away with it. When I asked Steve Shays if he had allowed Damon to use a picture he said that who cares I am getting free publicity. The truth does not come in to play there.
When I asked Bill Rivers a man I considered a good friend for 10 years if he approved of the Badpuppy logo being used next to lies about me his response was “He is not committing any wrong doing by having our logo on his page as long as it points to Badpuppy, which it does. “ I guess the truth doesn’t matter there either.
My point is simple. This is not my drama this is OUR drama. This cancer exists because we have allowed it to exist. From Joey Hart to Angel Skye, from Rad and Atkol, to today. We stood back and said nothing. It cost me my home. It has cost many good people a great deal of anguish. It will only go away when we make it go away. Standing silent while he uses your images, your links, your banners to lie about others IS the problem. If we cannot defend our industry and our models from a lying predator because the truth does not matter then Damon is not the problem we are. The head in the sand any lie is ok, is simply not acceptable. He is beyond contempt, but we are responsible for him, because we stand by and say nothing. That is wrong.

The truth does matter. It is time for people to stand up to the lies and the liar. If we demand the truth and nothing less he will be driven away. The truth did not die because Falcon needs Paul Barresi. The Truth did not die because people like free advertisement. There are too many people who know the truth and if we all stand up this cancer will be driven away. Until that time comes this is OUR problem. He would exist nowhere else. I ask only that people do not allow him to use their credibility to lie. This does real damage to real people. It does damage to our community when he goes out into the real world and proclaims to be a real journalist representing the gay community and then lies.

If you do not want to stand for the truth, then you are as much of the problem as the liar and the lies. This man is mentally ill and we have allowed his illness to pollute our world and it is OUR fault. He exists because people feed him and acquiesce to his blackmail. It is time for this to stop.

Have we no decency?

Kevin Clarke