Channel 1 Launches Dirk Yates Site, at Last
YNOT – For nearly two decades, the name Dirk Yates has been synonymous with military themed gay porn. After acquiring the label in 2006, acclaimed director Chi Chi LaRue’s Channel 1 Releasing worked with brand founder Yates to continue the Dirk Yates tradition and expand awareness in the DVD realm. In the process, the pair created a digital archive that functions much like a retrospective of the popular gay niche.
Now the Dirk Yates collection is available online for the first time. DirkYates.com makes the entire archive available to subscribers for as little as $9.95 a month.
Featuring more than a few good men in and out of uniform, the site includes real-life marine cock, seamen’s semen and an anal of army troops in full-length movies, amateur video collections, live show archives and new, never-before-seen footage. The debut also includes content formatted for iPads, iPhones and Android-compatible mobile devices.
Yates has entertained gay men with his military sex videos for nearly three decades. The brand became a household name in 1993 when CNN revealed honest-to-goodness marines based at Camp Pendleton appeared in Yates’ Private Collection series.
Soon afterward, thanks to the popularity of the genre, Yates was able to bankroll a new gay porn studio, All Worlds Video, which offered gay movies by big-name directors including Jerry Douglas, Michael Zen, Wash West and LaRue. Under the All Worlds label, Yates went from shooting active-duty military studs with an amateur handheld camera to featuring the same hunks in big-budget productions that made them superstars. Among Yate’s most infamous award-winning titles are Men For All Seasons, Tales From the Foxhole, Jar Head, Barracks Glory Hole and The Few, The Proud & The Naked.
Yates’ “discoveries” include gay porn favorites Axel Garrett, Rick Donovan, Eric Manchester, Mason Jarr, Time Lowe, Dean Phoenix, Rod Barry and Barrett Long.
DirkYates.com is part of the C1R affiliate program.