I think a lot of transgendered people prefer to make themselves as invisible as possible, hoping to blend in with the crowd and be accepted by their gender orientation.
Likewise, I’d bet a lot of non-transgendered people would rather not be confronted by something they perceive as not being very “normal.”
While most people in his situation might choose to hide or try to go unnoticed, the thing I like most about Buck is how open he is and how he’s put himself out there for all to see. He knows he makes people curious and that there’s only one way to help people be educated, as opposed to ignorant. Whenever I’ve talked to him for an article, he’s been patient and totally ready to answer any question – with a thick skin and a good sense of humor.
Even in the world of adult entertainment, where people are used to being completely exposed, it took a lot of guts for Buck to keep knocking down doors and insisting he be accepted for what he is – not a freak show but, truly, a self-made man.
At this year’s AVN Awards, the “Oscars” of porn held every January in Las Vegas, Buck won two trophies – one for Transsexual Performer of the Year, and the other for Most Outrageous Sex Scene, for a scene he performed with male-to-female transsexual performer Allanah Starr, in “Allanah Starr’s Big-Boob Adventure.” Talk about gender mind-bending confusion!
Since then, he’s been traveling a lot, from his home in Mexico. Just in New York for the infamous, annual Black Party on March 24th; Buck was featured at the event in an experimental film called “Schwarzwald.” He’s traveling this week for appearances in Madrid, the UK, Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, and then back to New York. He will also be speaking at the San Francisco Queer Arts Festival on June 21-22.
The latest movie from Buck Angel Entertainment, “Buckback Mountain” also released this week, featuring himself with Lobo, Mylo Deren and Sean Steele.
I asked Buck, recently, if he feels like he’s living his dream and what the future holds.
“You know, I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined that my life would end up like this. I really feel so lucky,” he replied. “It’s as if I had to go through this really rough period in my early life, to really be able to appreciate what I have been given. Not that I haven’t worked hard to get here, but I had no idea it would become so big.”
“For the future – well, you know, that kind of scares me, but in a good way!” he added. “I just see myself becoming so huge and making such a huge mark on the world. I really see, in the last year, peoples’ interest in me exploding. They really want to know more about me and what I represent. This is so good! The sky’s the limit for me and the future.”
Likewise, I’d bet a lot of non-transgendered people would rather not be confronted by something they perceive as not being very “normal.”
While most people in his situation might choose to hide or try to go unnoticed, the thing I like most about Buck is how open he is and how he’s put himself out there for all to see. He knows he makes people curious and that there’s only one way to help people be educated, as opposed to ignorant. Whenever I’ve talked to him for an article, he’s been patient and totally ready to answer any question – with a thick skin and a good sense of humor.
Even in the world of adult entertainment, where people are used to being completely exposed, it took a lot of guts for Buck to keep knocking down doors and insisting he be accepted for what he is – not a freak show but, truly, a self-made man.
At this year’s AVN Awards, the “Oscars” of porn held every January in Las Vegas, Buck won two trophies – one for Transsexual Performer of the Year, and the other for Most Outrageous Sex Scene, for a scene he performed with male-to-female transsexual performer Allanah Starr, in “Allanah Starr’s Big-Boob Adventure.” Talk about gender mind-bending confusion!
Since then, he’s been traveling a lot, from his home in Mexico. Just in New York for the infamous, annual Black Party on March 24th; Buck was featured at the event in an experimental film called “Schwarzwald.” He’s traveling this week for appearances in Madrid, the UK, Gran Canaria in the Canary Islands, and then back to New York. He will also be speaking at the San Francisco Queer Arts Festival on June 21-22.
The latest movie from Buck Angel Entertainment, “Buckback Mountain” also released this week, featuring himself with Lobo, Mylo Deren and Sean Steele.
I asked Buck, recently, if he feels like he’s living his dream and what the future holds.
“You know, I never in my wildest dreams could have imagined that my life would end up like this. I really feel so lucky,” he replied. “It’s as if I had to go through this really rough period in my early life, to really be able to appreciate what I have been given. Not that I haven’t worked hard to get here, but I had no idea it would become so big.”
“For the future – well, you know, that kind of scares me, but in a good way!” he added. “I just see myself becoming so huge and making such a huge mark on the world. I really see, in the last year, peoples’ interest in me exploding. They really want to know more about me and what I represent. This is so good! The sky’s the limit for me and the future.”
Even if it didn't seem that way back in May 2006 when this interview was conducted, Buck Angel has become a shining example of someone for whom the adult industry has been a positive, self-affirming experience.
JC: Do you ever get really negative response?
Buck Angel: Of course. I’m in a situation – I’m coming in and fucking shit up. Because you know, the industry is very straight-laced in a sense. Everything has its own little category and when you’re not really in… It took me years to get my foot in the door, where people like you are calling me and people are being very respectful to my work.
In the very beginning, nobody would even talk to me. No magazines would talk to me, no video companies would even look at my videos. People were like, ‘You’re disgusting.’
In the very beginning, nobody would even talk to me. No magazines would talk to me, no video companies would even look at my videos. People were like, ‘You’re disgusting.’
Believe me, it was very difficult for me to get to where I am today because that industry is so, in a sense, vanilla. And they are very categorized. So, basically, where does Buck Angel fit? He doesn’t fit anywhere, from gay to straight to tranny and back again.
My consumer base, at this point, tends to be gay men, which is very fascinating to me. Straight men tend to be the least interested and the most aggravated by me. Straight men tend to be the most rude and disrespectful and ugly to me.
People are so unbelievable. The thing is; I’m a fucking strong man. You can say anything you want to me, go the fuck ahead. I don’t really fucking care. In the beginning it did kinda tweak me a little bit, so I had to learn to say, ‘You know what? It’s not about me, it’s about them.’
I’m proud of myself. My partner is proud of me. My friends are proud of me and because I have such an amazing circle of people around me, it pushes me up even more and makes me feel… and then I get people like you and people like Keith at Titan, who are just so amazingly supportive of my work, it makes me even push harder and harder.
Eventually a couple of straight guys are going to come around and say, ‘Hey, you know what? Buck is hot… I might not want to fuck him, but I think he’s kinda cool, what he’s doing.’
My consumer base, at this point, tends to be gay men, which is very fascinating to me. Straight men tend to be the least interested and the most aggravated by me. Straight men tend to be the most rude and disrespectful and ugly to me.
People are so unbelievable. The thing is; I’m a fucking strong man. You can say anything you want to me, go the fuck ahead. I don’t really fucking care. In the beginning it did kinda tweak me a little bit, so I had to learn to say, ‘You know what? It’s not about me, it’s about them.’
I’m proud of myself. My partner is proud of me. My friends are proud of me and because I have such an amazing circle of people around me, it pushes me up even more and makes me feel… and then I get people like you and people like Keith at Titan, who are just so amazingly supportive of my work, it makes me even push harder and harder.
Eventually a couple of straight guys are going to come around and say, ‘Hey, you know what? Buck is hot… I might not want to fuck him, but I think he’s kinda cool, what he’s doing.’
I think that’ll come around for sure, definitely, somewhere along the line.
JC: Why the decision to become a porn star?
JC: Why the decision to become a porn star?
BA: It was weird. It wasn’t like I chose to become a porn star. I was working in the porn industry behind-the-scenes. I was making fetish movies with my ex-partner who’s a dominatrix, and I was doing all this stuff and making websites, and working with transsexual women doing websites, and it just clicked in my head, like, ‘Jesus Christ, there’s nobody doing female-to-male tranny porn! There’s nobody doing it.’
In a world of porn where basically you can see and do everything, right? There’s nobody doing any type of female-to-male transsexual porn. That was fascinating to me.
So, I just did it, not knowing what was going to happen. Honestly, I really didn’t. I just felt like I was the one that was chosen to do it, you know.
In a world of porn where basically you can see and do everything, right? There’s nobody doing any type of female-to-male transsexual porn. That was fascinating to me.
So, I just did it, not knowing what was going to happen. Honestly, I really didn’t. I just felt like I was the one that was chosen to do it, you know.
And it just goes to show you that even today, after three years, I’m still trying to find guys to shoot and bring into my work; there’s not many guys that want to do this – very, very, very few. That’s why you don’t see my movies with other guys. I’d like to eventually just produce and direct with other guys like me.
JC: Are there others like you?
JC: Are there others like you?
BA: Very few and when I get them, to be honest with you, they’re just not up to the quality of guy that I’d like to have, you know? I’d like to put out guys that have really nice bodies and look like they really want to take care of themselves.
Most of the ones that come to me don’t tend to be up to the standards that I’m looking for right now. Not to say that someone might get turned on by that, but for me as an artist and as somebody who’s doing this, I have a vision of what I want my guys to look like.
Most of the ones that come to me don’t tend to be up to the standards that I’m looking for right now. Not to say that someone might get turned on by that, but for me as an artist and as somebody who’s doing this, I have a vision of what I want my guys to look like.
Even then, since I’ve been doing this, there’s maybe a handful of men that have come to me. And then, when I go to get them to do the movie, they’re very shy or decide that they decide that they’re not ready to do it at this point.
It’s just amazing. They just are not comfortable being men with pussies. They’re not comfortable with it. Eventually, I hope that I’m going to be able to change that situation for them.
JC: When you get negative reaction is it always from straight guys?
It’s just amazing. They just are not comfortable being men with pussies. They’re not comfortable with it. Eventually, I hope that I’m going to be able to change that situation for them.
JC: When you get negative reaction is it always from straight guys?
BA: Oh yeah. I would say that 99% of the time it’s from straight men. You know, I don’t get as much hate mail now as I did in the beginning. Mostly, I’m on their blogs and the say, ‘Hey, dude. Check this out. This is fucking gross or weird” or “This is the most fucked-up thing I’ve ever seen!”
Just totally immature high school boy shit. If you have a problem, why don’t you just contact me and maybe we can talk about it?
JC: Well, you know the male-to-female transsexual thing is becoming very trendy and it’s mostly straight guys watching that, I would assume…
JC: Well, you know the male-to-female transsexual thing is becoming very trendy and it’s mostly straight guys watching that, I would assume…
BA: Huge. Isn’t that funny?
JC: Do you think that female-to-male transsexuals will ever be as accepted?
JC: Do you think that female-to-male transsexuals will ever be as accepted?
BA: You’re going to hear this from me: That’s eventually going to happen. And I’m the one who’s starting that. I have invented a whole new genre of porn. Not a whole lot of people can say that, you know? Eventually, in the next five to ten years, every studio will have a Buck Angel. You watch – it’s going to happen.
But right now people are just wanting to see what I’m going to do and the bottom line comes down to money. How can they make money? Is there enough interest out there for people like Buck Angel?
JC: Well, how’s the response? How many films do you have?
JC: Well, how’s the response? How many films do you have?
BA: Actually, I have three films with Robert Hill and I have two of my own with Avalon. And I’m doing my third one now… My new movie that’s coming out now is called 'Buck Angel’s V is for Vagina.'
JC: I think there are a lot of people that have never even considered female-to-male transsexuals…
JC: I think there are a lot of people that have never even considered female-to-male transsexuals…
BA: I’ve been around for three years and you still hadn’t heard about me. Believe me, I’m everywhere, so that’s what I’m saying – it's just because I don’t think enough people know about me yet. The more people know about me, the more people see about me, the more fanbase I get.
JC: So, is it difficult to find people that will perform with you? Who do you use?
JC: So, is it difficult to find people that will perform with you? Who do you use?
BA: Men and women and transsexuals. No straight men, obviously. That doesn’t work right now. Mostly gay men, bisexual and straight women I would say, and transsexuals.
I shot a movie with Wendy Williams. I did a movie for Gia Darling, but I didn’t shoot with Gia; I shot with Allanah Starr.
That was a history-making scene, me and Allanah Starr, that’s never been done in the history of porn – a male-to-female transsexual and a female-to-male transsexual. That title is 'Allanah Starr’s Big Boob Adventures.'
It’s a really hot scene and, of course, people are tripping on it because it was just so… like the camera man said, ‘I’ve been working in this industry for 30 years, Buck, and you just blew my fucking mind.’
JC: Well, like you said, the industry is kinda vanilla…
I shot a movie with Wendy Williams. I did a movie for Gia Darling, but I didn’t shoot with Gia; I shot with Allanah Starr.
That was a history-making scene, me and Allanah Starr, that’s never been done in the history of porn – a male-to-female transsexual and a female-to-male transsexual. That title is 'Allanah Starr’s Big Boob Adventures.'
It’s a really hot scene and, of course, people are tripping on it because it was just so… like the camera man said, ‘I’ve been working in this industry for 30 years, Buck, and you just blew my fucking mind.’
JC: Well, like you said, the industry is kinda vanilla…
BA: It’s like – okay, why is an 800-guy gangbang okay, and why is getting my pussy fucked not okay? Like, I don’t get it, you know what I’m saying? That seems normal to them, but when I get my pussy fucked, it doesn’t seem normal.
If this is what turns you on, then that’s okay. But an 800-man gangbang, honestly; it does not turn me on to see a woman full of cum, like from head to toe. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s okay. It’s totally okay.
But that’s why they all turn around and talk shit about my work. That is just so weird to me and so close-minded. We’re all in the same industry, people…
I get it and I know what I’m doing and being a pioneer. All of those things is very hard work and I have to educate. And believe me, that was never my intention. I did not want to do that. I just wanted to make fucking porn, but it’s turned into a lot more than that. I’m becoming a political activist at this point, a revolutionary. All kinds of things are coming from my work.
And I’m taking it on. I’ve decided I’m just going to take it on and I don’t really care.
If this is what turns you on, then that’s okay. But an 800-man gangbang, honestly; it does not turn me on to see a woman full of cum, like from head to toe. But that doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s okay. It’s totally okay.
But that’s why they all turn around and talk shit about my work. That is just so weird to me and so close-minded. We’re all in the same industry, people…
I get it and I know what I’m doing and being a pioneer. All of those things is very hard work and I have to educate. And believe me, that was never my intention. I did not want to do that. I just wanted to make fucking porn, but it’s turned into a lot more than that. I’m becoming a political activist at this point, a revolutionary. All kinds of things are coming from my work.
And I’m taking it on. I’ve decided I’m just going to take it on and I don’t really care.
That’s one of the reasons I moved out of the United States. All those damn stupid fucking laws that they’re making now; obscenity laws, which is so – whatever obscenity means – they can walk into your house and arrest you because they don’t like you, is basically what it is.
(Laughing) And there’s ‘Buck Angel, the man with the pussy.’ How more obscene can you get?
(For more information on Buck Angel, visit www.buckangel.com or www.transsexual-man.com. Photo used by permission of Buck Angel)
(Laughing) And there’s ‘Buck Angel, the man with the pussy.’ How more obscene can you get?
(For more information on Buck Angel, visit www.buckangel.com or www.transsexual-man.com. Photo used by permission of Buck Angel)
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