While watching SNL last night a name
was mentioned that I'd never thoughts of when I was doing my Cool Shit Black People Invented the last few years. Who was the first
Black porn star? Who is this man that risked so much so that years later we could watch men that looked more like ourselves having sex on camera while wearing sunglasses, white socks, and baseball caps?
Well, turns out his name was Johnny Keyes and he was
slinging mad Black dick. He was in the Swedish Erotica series of
films but is best known for Behind The Green Door where he fucked
actress Marilyn Chambers for 47 minutes on film until she actually
fainted. Everyone thought that she was acting but she wasn't. This man dicked her into another state of consciousness.
Born in 1940, Keyes was an amateur boxing lightweight
champion in the U.S Army. He has a degree in theater arts and has
taught theater as well. He performed in Hair and The Wiz for live
performances. He currently plays jazz in Seattle and a few years back
was inducted into the AVN Hall of Fame.
